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Division . 
Section  . 
Number ., 


BURNING   WORDS 


BRILLIANT  WRITERS; 


CYCLOPEDIA   OF    QUOTATIONS 


FROM    THE 


RELIGIOUS  LITERATURE 


OF  ALL  AGES. 


JOSIAH  H.  GILBERT, 


WITH    AN    INTRODUCTION    BY 


CHARLES    S.    ROBINSON,    D.    D, 


Troy,  N.  Y.  : 
H.  B.  NIMS  AND  COMPANY, 

1883. 


COPYRIGHTED   BY 
D.    R.    NiVER. 

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SLECTBOTYPBD  BY 

WEED,  PARSONS    AND   COMPUTITf 

ALBANY,  N.  Y. 


INTRODUCTION. 


THE  genius  of  quotation  is  abroad.  Public  speakers,  preachers, 
pleaders,  and  teachers  are  wont  to  enrich  their  addresses 
with  the  bright  utterances  of  briUiant  men.  If  this  practice  be 
managed  deftly  and  honestly,  there  is  good  in  it.  The  long  pro- 
cesses of  many  years  of  study  are  often  concentrated  into  a 
single  paragraph,  and  often  delivered  in  a  figure  of  surpassing 
force.  Even  opinions  possess  helpfulness  in  such  uses.  "Great 
authorities  are  arguments,"  so  Daniel  Webster  used  to  say. 

Attention  is  arrested,  interest  is  awakened,  persuasion  is  se- 
cured, by  the  mention  of  some  well-known  author's  name,  and 
the  waiting  audience  grow  eager  for  the  sentence  which  is  com- 
ing. Even  if  the  purpose  be  no  higher  than  mere  ornamentation, 
the  practice  need  not  be  despised.  Beauty  and  utility  are  not 
necessarily  and  always  to  be  divorced.  We  are  told  that  Samuel 
Rogers,  the  opulent  poet,  owned  one  of  the  very  few  notes  of 
the  value  of  a  hundred  thousand  pounds  issued  by  the  Bank 
of  England.  He  had  it  framed  and  hung  in  his  reception  room. 
Beautifully  finished,  it  was  as  effective  for  decoration  on  his  wall 
as  any  other  engraving  of  the  same  dimensions  ;  and  then  it  was 
in  itself  a  fortune.  So  a  writer  can  light  up  his  disquisition  some- 
times with  the  issue  of  some  masterful  mind's  wealth  ;  it  adorns 
with  its  shining,  it  enriches  with  its  worth. 

It  is  not  to  be  understood  that  I  have  read  all  the  selections 
included  in  this  volume.  I  have  but  touched  the  pages  here  and 
there,  and  looked  through  the  index.  The  work  seems  to  have 
been  done  with  wide  research,  with  commendable  exactness,  and 
with   good  taste ;  and  I  am  more  than  willing  to  bid  the  book 

God-speed. 

CHARLES    S.  ROBINSON. 
New  York,  May  i,  1883. 


Why  are  not  more  gems  from  our  great  authors  scat- 
tered OVER  the  country  ?  Great  books  are  not  in  every 
body's  reach;  and  though  it  is  better  to  know  them 
thoroughly  than  to  know  them  only  here  and  there,  yet 
IT  IS  a  good  work  to  give  a  little  to  those  who  have 
not  the  time  nor  means  to  get  more. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


It  is  excellent  discipline  for  an  author  to  feel  that 
he  must  say  all  that  he  has  to  say  in  the  fewest  pos- 
sible WORDS,   OR  his  reader  IS    SURE  TO  SKIP  THEM  ;  AND   IN 

the  plainest  possible  words,  or  his  reader  will  certainly 
misunderstand  them.  generally,  also,  a  downright  fact 
may  be  told  in  a  plain  way  ;  and  we  want  downright 
facts  at  the  present  more  than  any  thing  else. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


PREFACE 


IN  making  this  collection  of  brief  and  pointed  selections  "  from 
the  religious  literature  of  all  ages,"  it  has  been  the  aim  of  the 
compiler  : 

I.  To  use  only  such  extracts  as  clearly  and  forcibly  express  or 
apply  some  religious  truth. 

II.  To  make  the  character  of  the  book  "evangelical." 

III.  To  avoid  all  denominational  tendencies.  Indeed  it  has 
been  one  object  to  show  the  essential  unit}^  of  the  faith  of  the 
different  sects  composing  the  Christian  church. 

IV.  To  present  doctrine,  not  so  much  as  a  complete  system  of 
theology,  as  the  frame-work — the  sustaining  principle  of  holy 
living. 

V.  To  give  especial  prominence  to  American  authors. 

All  the  subjects  are  arranged  alphabetically,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  subdivisions  of  the  topic  "Christ,"  which  are  grouped 
in  two  classes  in  what  seems  to  be  the  natural  order:  first,  "The 
Historic  Christ,"  on  pages  54  to  'j']  inclusive  ;  and  second,  "  The 
Living  Christ,"  pages  78  to  102  inclusive. 

As  all  matter  of  the  book  is  selected,  quotation  marks  are  not 

generally  used,  whether  the  author's  name  is  given  or  omitted. 

J.  H.  G. 
Albany,  May  i,  1883. 


He  that  lays  down  precepts  for  governing  our  lives, 

AND   moderating  OUR   PASSIONS,  OBLIGES   HUMANITY  NOT  ONLY 

in  the  present,  but  in  all  future  generations. 

—  Seneca. 


If  YOU  WOULD  be  pungent,  be  brief  ;  FOR  IT  IS  WITH  WORDS 
AS  WITH  SUNBEAMS— THE  MORE  THEY  ARE  CONDENSED,  THE 
DEEPER   THEY    BURN. 


SOUTHEY. 


The  PROVERB   answers  where  THE  SERMON    FAILS. 

—  W.  G.  SIMMS. 


BURNING  WORDS  OF  BRILLIANT  WRITERS, 


ABILITY. 

Ability  involves  responsibility.      Power  to  its  last  particle  is 

duty. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Man  is  not  altogether  an  imbecile.  True,  "  circumstances  do 
make  the  man."  But  they  make  him  only  in  the  sense  and 
degree  that  he  permits  them  to  make  him. 

G.   D.   BOARDMAN. 


What  we  do  upon  a  great  occasion  will  probably  depend 
upon  what  we  already  are  ;  what  we  are  will  be  the  result  of 
previous  years  of  self-discipline,  under  the  grace  of  Christ  or 
the  absence  of  it. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 


ACCOUNTABILITY. 

Moral  conduct  includes  every  thing  in  which  men  are  active 

and  for  which  they  are  accountable.     They  are  active  in  their 

desires,  their  affections,  their  designs,  their  intentions,  and  in 

every  thing  they  say  and  do  of  choice;  and  for  all  these  things 

they  are  accountable  to  God. 

—  Emmons. 


2  ACTION. 

When  illusions  are  over,  when  the  distractions  of  sense,  the 
vagaries  of  fancy,  and  the  tumults  of  passion  have  dissolved 
even  before  the  body  is  cold,  which  once  they  so  thronged  and 
agitated,  the  soul  merges  into  intellect,  intellect  into  conscience, 
conscience  into  the  unbroken,  awful  solitude  of  its  own  per- 
sonal accountability;  and  though  the  inhabitants  of  the  universe 
were  within  the  spirit's  ken,  this  personal  accountability  is  as 
strictly  alone  and  unshared,  as  if  no  being  were  throughout 
immensity  but  the  spirit  and  its  God. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


ACTION. 


The  end  of  man  is  an  action,  and  not  a  thought,  though  it 

were  the  noblest. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


Existence  was  given  us  for  action,  rather  than  indolent  and 
aimless  contemplation ;  our  worth  is  determined  by  the  good 
deeds  we  do,  rather  than  by  the  fine  emotions  we  feel.  They 
greatly  mistake,  who  suppose  that  God  cares  for  no  other  pur- 
suit than  devotion. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Christian  life  is  action  :  not  a  speculating,  not  a  debating,  but 
a  doing.  One  thing,  and  only  one,  in  this  world  has  eternity 
stamped  upon  it.  Feelings  pass;  resolves  and  thoughts  pass; 
opinions  change.  What  you  have  done  lasts  —  lasts  in  you. 
Through  ages,  through  eternity,  Avhat  you  have  done  for  Christ, 
that,  and  only  that,  you  are. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


It  is  well  to  think  well ;  it  is  divine  to  act  well. 

—  Horace  Mann. 


ACTION.  3 

Man,  being  essentially  active,  must  find  in  activity  his  joy,  as 
well  as  his  beauty  and  glory;  and  labor,  like  every  thing  else 
that  is  good,  is  its  own  reward. 

—  Bishop  Whipple. 


Tempests  may  shake  our  dwellings  and  dissipate  our  com- 
merce, but  they  scourge  before  them  the  lazy  elements,  which 
otherwise  would  stagnate  into  pestilence. 


Be  thy  best  thoughts  to  work  divine  addressed  ; 
Do  something, —  do  it  soon  —  with  all  thy  might; 
An  angel's  wing  would  droop  if  long  at  rest. 
And  God  Himself  inactive  were  no  longer  blessed. 

—  Carlos  Wilcox. 


When  I  read  the  life  of  such  a  man  as  Paul,  how  I  blush  to 
think  how  sickly  and  dwarfed  Christianity  is  at  the  present 
time,  and  how  many  hundreds  there  are  who  never  think  of 
working  for  the  Son  of  God  and  honoring  Christ. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


I  have  lived  to  know  that  the  secret  of  happiness  is  never  to 

allow  your  energies  to  stagnate. 

—  Adam  Clarke. 


I  have  never  heard  any  thing  about  the  resolutions  of  the  dis- 
ciples, but  a  great  deal  about  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles. 

—  Horace  Mann. 


The  life  of  man  is  made  up  of  action  and  endurance  ;  and 
life  is  fruitful  in  the  ratio  in  which  it  is  laid  out  in  noble  action 
or  in  patient  perseverance. 

H.   P.  LiDDON. 


4  ACTION. 

Act  well  at  the  moment,  and  you  have  performed  a  good 
action  to  all  eternity. 

—  Lavater. 


Look  around  you,  and  you  will  behold  the  universe  full  of 
active  powers.  Action  is,  so  to  speak,  the  genius  of  nature. 
By  motion  and  exertion,  the  system  of  being  is  preserved  in 
vigor.  By  its  different  parts  always  acting  in  subordination 
one  to  another,  the  perfection  of  the  whole  is  carried  on.  The 
heavenly  bodies  perpetually  revolve.  Day  and  night  incess- 
antly repeat  their  appointed  course.  Continual  operations  are 
going  on  in  the  earth  and  in  the  waters.  Nothing  stands  still. 
All  is  alive  and  stirring  throughout  the  universe.  In  the  midst 
of  this  animated  and  busy  scene,  is  man  alone  to  remain  idle 
in  his  place  ?  Belongs  it  to  him  to  be  the  sole  inactive  and 
slothful  being  in  the  creation,  when  in  so  many  various  ways  he 
might  improve  his  own  nature;  might  advance  the  glory  of  the 
God  who  made  him  ;  and  contribute  his  part  in  the  general 

good  ? 

—  Blair. 


Activity    in  the  kingdom    of    God   augments  the  power  of 
spiritual  life,  and  deepens  the  consciousness  of  religious  realities. 

—  William  Adams. 


The  history  of  the  Church  of  Christ  from  the  days  of  the 
Apostles  has  been  a  history  of  spiritual  moveme7its. 

H.  P.   LiDDON. 


It  is  much  easier  to  settle  a  point  than  to  act  on  it. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Unselfish  and  noble  acts  are  the  most  radiant  epochs  in  the 

biography  of  souls. 

—  David  Thomas. 


ACTION. 

Haste  thee  on  from  grace  to  glory, 

Armed  by  faith  and  winged  by  prayer, 

Heaven's  eternal  day's  before  thee  ; 
God's  own  hand  shall  guide  thee  there. 

—  H.  F.  Lyte. 


I  do  not  say  the  mind  gets  informed  by  action, —  bodily 
action ;  but  it  does  get  earnestness  and  strength  by  it,  and 
that  nameless  something  that  gives  a  man  the  mastership  of  his 
faculties. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


The  essential  elements  of  giving  are  power  and  love  —  ac- 
tivity and  affection  —  and  the  consciousness  of  the  race  testi- 
fies that  in  the  high  and  appropriate  exercise  of  these  is  a 
blessedness  greater  than  any  other. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


All  mental  discipline  and  symmetrical  growth  are  from 
activity  of  the  mind  under  the  yoke  of  the  will  or  personal 
power. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Napoleon  was  the  most  effective  man  in  modern  times  — 
some  will  say  of  all  times.  The  secret  of  his  character  was, 
that  while  his  plans  were  more  vast,  more  various,  and,  of 
course,  more  difficult  than  those  of  other  men,  he  had  the 
talent  at  the  same  time,  to  fill  them  up  with  perfect  promptness 
and  precision,  in  every  particular  of  execution. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Time  is  short,  your  obligations  are  infinite.  Are  your  houses 
regulated,  your  children  instructed,  the  afflicted  relieved,  the 
poor  visited,  the  work  of  piety  accomplished  ? 

—  Massillon. 


6  ACTION. 

Let  us  remember  that  Elijah's  God  was  with  him  only  while 
he  was  occupied  in  noble  and  effectual  services.  When  thus 
engaged,  he  exulted  in  the  conscious  majesty  of  a  life  which 
had  upon  it  the  stamp  and  signature  of  Divine  power. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


It  is  no  use  for  one  to  stand  in  the  shade  and  complain  that 

the  sun  does  not  shine  upon  him.     He  must  come  out  resolutely 

on  the  hot  and  dusty  field  where  all  are  compelled  to  antagonize 

with   stubborn  difficulties,  and   pertinaciously  strive   until  he 

conquers,  if  he  would  deserve  to  be  crowned. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


The  fact  is  that  in  order  to  do  any  thing  in  this  world  worth 

doing,  we  must  not  stand  shivering  on  the  bank  thinking  of  the 

cold  and  the  danger,  but  jump  in  and  scramble  through  as  well 

as  we  can. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


What  is  done  is  done  ;  has  already  blended  itself  with  the 

boundless,  ever  living,  ever  working  universe,  and    will    also 

work  there  for  good  or  evil,  openly  or  secretly,  throughout  all 

time. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


Consider  and  act  with  reference  to  the  true  ends  of  exist- 
ence. This  world  is  but  the  vestibule  of  an  immortal  life. 
Every  action  of   our  lives  touches  on   some  chord  that  will 

vibrate  in  eternity. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


Our  actions  must  clothe  us  with  an  immortality  loathsome  or 
glorious.  — C.  C.  CoLTON. 

Accuse  not  Nature,  she  hath  done  her  part;  do  thou  but  thine. 

—  Milton. 


ADOPTION  —  ADVERSITY. 


ADOPTION. 
Adoption  is  an  act  of  God's  free  grace,  whereby  we  are  re- 
ceived into  the  number,  and  have  a  right  to  all  the  privileges, 

of  the  sons  of  God. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


We  need  a  spirit  of  adoption  to  take  us  out  of  the  foundling 
hospital  of  the  world,  and  to  put  us  into  the  celestial  family. 

G.   D.    BOARDMAN. 


Faith  unites  us  to  Christ,  and  acquiesces  in  the  redemption 
purchased  by  Him  as  the  meritorious  cause  of  our  adoption. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


ADVERSITY. 

God  kills  thy  comforts  from  no  other  design  but  to  kill  thy 
corruptions  ;  wants  are  ordained  to  kill  wantonness,  poverty  is 
appointed   to  kill  pride,  reproaches  are  permitted  to  destroy 

ambition. 

—  John  Flavel, 


Adversity  borrows  its  sharpest  sting  from  impatience. 

—  Bishop  Horne. 


In  the  day  of  prosperity  we  have  many  refuges  to  resort  to  ; 
in  the  day  of  adversity,  only  one. 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 


How  full  of  briers  is  this  working-day  world  ! 

—  Shakspeare. 


AFFLICTION. 


For  one  man  who  can  stand  prosperity,  there  are  a  hundred 

that  will  stand  adversity. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


AFFLICTION. 

Afflictions  are  but  the  shadow  of  God's  wings. 

—  Geo.  MacDonald. 


Human  character  is  never  found  "  to  enter  into  its  glory," 
except  through  the  ordeal  of  affliction.  Its  force  cannot  come 
forth  without  the  offer  of  resistance,  nor  can  the  grandeur  of 
its  free  will  declare  itself,  except  in  the  battle  of  fierce  temptation. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Affliction  is  the  school  in  which  great  virtues  are  acquired, 

in  which  great  characters  are  formed. 

—  Hannah  More. 


The  damps  of  autumn  sink  into  the  leaves  and  prepare  them 

for  the  necessity  of  their  fall;  and  thus  insensibly  are  we,  as  years 

close  around  us,  detached    from  our  tenacity  of   life  by   the 

gentle  pressure  of  recorded  sorrow. 

—  W.  S.  Landor. 

God  sometimes  washes  the  eyes  of  His  children  with  tears  in 
order  that  they  may  read  aright  His  providence  and  His  com- 
mandments. 

—  T.  L.  CUVLER. 


Be  still,  sad  heart,  and  cease  repining. 
Behind  the  clouds  the  sun  is  shining; 
Thy  fate  is  the  common  fate  of  all; 
Into  each  life  some  rain  must  fall, — 
Some  days  must  be  dark  and  dreary. 

—  Longfellow. 


AFFLICTION. 


Extraordinary  afflictions  are  not  always  the  punishment  of 
extraordinary  sins,  but  sometimes  the  trial  of  extraordinary 
graces. 


—  Matthew  Henry. 


Affliction  of  itself  does  not  sanctify  any  body,  but  the  reverse. 
I  believe  in  sanctified  afflictions,  but  not  in  sanctifying  afflictions. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Heaven  gives  us  friends  to  bless  the  present  scene; 
Resumes  them,  to  prepare  us  for  the  next. 


-Young. 


Afflictions  are  but  as  a  dark  entry  into  our  Father's  house. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Most  of  the  grand  truths  of  God  have  to  be  learned  by 
trouble;  they  must  be  burned  into  us  by  the  hot  iron  of  afflic- 
tion, otherwise  we  shall  not  truly  receive  them. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeo'n. 


What  seem  to  us  but  dim  funereal  tapers  may  be  heaven's 

distant  lamps. 

—  Longfellow. 


Every  man  will  have  his  own  criterion  in  forming  his  judg- 
ment of  others.  I  depend  very  much  on  the  effect  of  afflic- 
tion. I  consider  how  a  man  comes  out  of  the  furnace;  gold 
will  lie  for  a  month  in  the  furnace  without  losing  a  grain. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


The   Lord  gets  His  best   soldiers  out  of  the  highlands  of 

affliction. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Night  brings  out  stars  as  sorrow  shows  us  truths. 

—  P.  J.  Bailey 


10  AFFLICTION. 


If    you  would  not  have  affliction  visit  -you  twice,  listen  at 

once,  and  attentively,  to  what  it  teaches. 

—  Burgh.  - 


Grace  will  ever  speak  for  itself  and  be  fruitful  in  well-doing; 

the  sanctified  cross  is  a  fruitful  tree. 

■^-  Rutherford. 


We  should  be  more  anxious  that  our  afflictions  should  bene- 
fit us  than  that  they  should  be  speedly  removed  from  us. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


Seek  holiness  rather  than  consolation. 

—  John  Owen. 


It  is  the  best  thing  for  a  stricken  heart  to  be  helping  others. 

—  A.  H.  K. 

The  cup  which  my  Saviour  giveth  me,  can  it  be  any  thing  but 

a  cup  of  salvation  ? 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 

The  truly  great  and  good,  in  affliction,  bear  a  counte- 
nance more  princely  than  they  are  wont ;  for  it  is  the  temper 
of  the  highest  hearts,  like  the  palm  tree,  to  strive  most  upward 

when  they  are  most  burdened. 

—  Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


What  He  tells  thee  in  the  darkness, 

Weary  watcher  for  the  day. 
Grateful  lip  and  heart  should  utter 

When  the  shadows  flee  away. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


As  sure  as  God  ever  puts  His  children  into  the  furnace,  He 
will  be  in  the  furnace  with  them. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


AMBITION.  11 


The  truest  help  we  can  render  an  afiflicted  man  is  not  to  take 
his  burden  from  him,  but  to  call  out  his  best  strength,  that  he 
may  be  able  to  bear  the  burden. 


—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Oh,  when  we  are  journeying  through  the  murky  night  and 
the  dark  woods  of  affliction  and  sorrow,  it  is  something  to  find 
here  and  there  a  spray  broken,  or  a  leafy  stem  bent  down  with 
the  tread  of  His  foot  and  the  brush  of  His  hand  as  He  passed ; 
and  to  remember  that  the  path  He  trod  He  has  hallowed,  and 
thus  to  find  lingering  fragrance  and  hidden  strength  in  the 
remembrance  of  Him  as  "in  all  points  tempted  like  as  we  are," 
bearing  grief  for  us,  bearing  grief  tvith  us,  bearing  grief  like  us. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christ  leads  me  through  no  darker  rooms 
Than  He  went  through  before. 

—  Richard  Baxter. 

However  bitter  the  cup  we  have  to  drink,  we  are  sure  it  con- 
tains nothing  unnecessary  or  unkind;  and  we  should  take  it 
from  His  hand  with  as  much  meekness  as  we  accept  of  eternal 

life  with  thankfulness. 

—  William  Goodell. 


In  the  dark  and  cloudy  day. 
When  earth's  riches  flee  away. 
And  the  last  hope  will  not  stay, 
Saviour,  comfort  me. 


AMBITION. 


Ambition  is  the  way  in  which  a  vulgar  man  aspires. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


12  AMUSEMENT. 


Virtue  is  choked  with  foul  ambition. 

—  Shakspeare. 


Ambition  is  a  gilded  misery,  a  secret  poison,  a  hidden  plague, 

the  engineer  of  deceit,  the  mother  of  hypocrisy,  the  parent  of 

envy,  the  original  of  vices,  the  moth  of  holiness,  the  blinder  of 

hearts,    turning   medicines  into  maladies,  and   remedies   into 

diseases. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Ambition  is  but  avarice  on  stilts. 

—  W.  S.  Landor. 


AMUSEMENT. 

Amusements  are  to  religion  like  breezes  of  air  to  the  flame; 
gentle  ones  will  fan  it,  but  strong  ones  will  put  it  out. 

—  David  Thomas. 


Any  pleasure  which  takes  and  keeps  the  heart  from  God  is 
sinful,  and  unless  forsaken,  will  be  fatal  to  the  soul. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


People  should  be  guarded  against  temptation  to  unlawful 
pleasures  by  furnishing  them  the  means  of  innocent  ones.  In 
every  community  there  must  be  pleasures,  relaxations,  and 
means  of  agreeable  excitement ;  and  if  innocent  are  not  fur- 
nished, resort  will  be  had  to  criminal.  Man  was  made  to 
enjoy  as  well  as  labor;  and  the  state  of  society  should  be 
adapted  to  this  principle  of  human  nature. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Recreation  is  not  the  highest  kind  of  enjoyment;  but  in  its 
time  and  place  it  is  quite  as  proper  as  prayer. 

—  S.  iRENiEUS  Prime. 


ANGER,  13 

Whatever  we  do  to  please  ourselves,  and  only  for  the  sake  of 
the  pleasure,  not  for  an  ultimate  object,  is  "play,"  the  "pleas- 
ing thing,"  not  the  useful  thing.  The  first  of  all  English  games 
is  making  money.  That  is  an  all-absorbing  game;  and  we 
knock  each  other  down  oftener  in  playing  at  that  than  at  foot- 
ball, or  any  other  rougher  sport;  and  it  is  absolutely  without 
purpose ;  no  one  who  engages  heartily  in  that  game  ever  knows 
why.  Ask  a  great  money-maker  what  he  wants  to  do  with  his 
money  —  he  never  knows.  He  doesn't  make  it  to  do  any  thing 
with  it.  He  gets  it  only  that  he  may  get  it.  "  What  will  you 
make  of  what  you  have  got  ?  "  you  ask,  "Well,  I'll  get  more," 
he  says.  Just  as  at  cricket  you  get  more  runs.  There  is  no 
use  in  the  runs;  but  to  get  more  of  them  than  other  people 
is  the  game.  And  there  is  no  use  in  the  money ;  but  to  have 
more  of  it  than  other  people  is  the  game. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


ANGER. 

An  unsanctified  temper  is  a  fruitful  source  of  error,  and  a 

mighty  impediment  to  truth. 

— ^E.  L.  Magoon. 


He   submits  himself  to  be  seen  through  a  microscope,  who 
suffers  himself  to  be  caught  in  a  fit  of  passion. 

—  Lavater. 


Our  passions  are  like  convulsion  fits,  which  make  us  stronger 

for  the  time,  but  leave  us  weaker  forever  after. 

—  Dean  Swift. 


If  anger  proceeds  from  a  great  cause,  it  turns  to  fury;  if 

from  a  small  cause,  it  is  peevishness  ;  and  so  is  always  either 

terrible  or  ridiculous. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


14  APOSTASY. 


The  proud  man  hath  no  God  ;  the  envious  man  hath  no 

neighbor  ;  the  angry  man  hath  not  himself. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


There  was  a  man  here  last  night  —  you  needn't  be  afraid  that 

I  shall  mention  his  name  —  who  said  that  his  will  was  given  up 

to  God,  and  who  got  mad  because  the  omnibus  was  full,  and 

he  had  to  walk  a  mile  to  his  lodgings. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


When  I  had  twice  or  thrice  made  a  resolute  resistance  to 

anger,  the  like  befell  me  that  did  the  Thebans;  who,  having 

once  foiled  the  Lacedemonians,  never  after  lost  so  much  as  one 

battle  which  they  fought  against  them. 

—  Plutarch, 

The  sun  should  not  set  upon  our  anger,  neither  should  he 
rise  upon  our  confidence. 

—  C.   C.  COLTON. 


APOSTASY. 
The  kiss  of  the  apostate  was  the  most  bitter  earthly  ingredient 

in  the  agonies  which  Christ  endured. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Still  in  the  garden  shadows  art  Thou  pleading, 

Staining  the  night  dews  with  Thine  agony; 

But  one  is  there  Thy  woe  and  prayer  unheeding, 

And  to  their  guileless  prey  Thy  murderers  leading. 

Lord,  is  it  I  ? 

—  George  Huntingdon. 


O  God,  the  Father,  of  heaven,  have  mercy  upon  us  miserable 
sinners. 


ASPIRATION.  15 


"  Lord,  is  it  I  ?  "  Thou  knowest  my  temptations, 
My  spirit  willing,  though  my  flesh  is  weak ; 

My  earnest  striving,  and  my  often  failing; 
Sinning,  repenting,  still  Thy  grace  I  seek. 


ASPIRATION. 
O  God,    Thou  art  my  God ;    early  will   I   seek  Thee  ;  my 
soul  thirsteth  for  Thee  ;  my  flesh  longeth  for  Thee  in  a  dry 
and  thirsty  land,  where  no  water  is. 

—  Psalms. 

There  is  not  a  heart  but  has  its  moments  of  longing, —  yearn- 
ing for  something  better,  nobler,  holier  than  it  knows  now. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 

Aspiration,  worthy  ambition,  desires  for  higher  good  for  good 
ends  —  all  these  indicate  a  soul  that  recognizes  the  beckoning 
hand  of  the  good  Father  who  would  call  us  homeward  towards 
Himself  —  all  these  are  the  ground  and  justification  for  a 
Christian  discontent ;  but  a  murmuring,  questioning,  fault-find- 
ing spirit  has  direct  and  sympathetic  alliance  with  nothing  but 

the  infernal. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


In  truth,  there  is  no  religion,  no  worship  in  our  prosperity 
and  ease.  So  far  as  we  are  happy,  we  are  in  a  state  of  satisfied 
desire ;  so  far  as  we  are  religious,  we  are  in  a  state  of  aspira- 
tion and  unsatisfied  desire. 

—  James  Martineau. 

Father  !  forgive  the  heart  that  clings 

Thus  trembling  to  the  things  of  time, 

And  bid  my  soul,  on  angel's  wings 

Ascend  into  a  purer  clime. 

—  Jane  Roscoe. 


16  ASSURANCE. 


ASSURANCE. 

Assurance  of  hope  is  more  than  Hfe.     It  is  health,  strength, 
power,  vigor,  activity,  energy,  manliness,  beauty. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


True  assurance  makes  a  man  more  humble  and  self-denied 
but  presumptuous  confidence  puffs  up  with  spiritual  pride  and 
self-conceit;  the  one  excites  to  the  practice  of  every  commanded 
duty,  but  the  other  encourages  sloth  and  indolence. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


You  have  a  valuable  house  or  farm.  It  is  suggested  that  the 
title  is  not  good.  You  employ  counsel.  You  have  the  deeds  ex- 
amined. You  search  the  records  for  mortgages,  judgments 
and  liens.  You  are  not  satisfied  until  you  have  a  certificate, 
signed  by  the  great  seal  of  the  State,  assuring  you  that  the 
title  is  good.  Yet  how  many  leave  their  title  to  heaven  an 
undecided  matter  !  Why  do  you  not  go  to  the  records  and 
find  it  ?  Give  yourself  no  rest  day  or  night  until  you  can  read 
your  "title  clear  to  mansions  in  the  skies." 

— T.  DeWitt  Talmage. 


The  more  the  soul  is  conformed  to  Christ,  the  more  confident 

it  will  be  of  its  interest  in  Christ. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


The  best  assurance  any  one  can  have  of  his  interest  in  God, 
is  doubtless  the  conformity  of  his  soul  to  Him.  When  our 
heart  is  once  turned  into  a  conformity  with  the  mind  of  God, 
when  we  feel  our  will  conformed  to  His  will,  we  shall  then 
presently  perceive  a  spirit  of  adoption  v/ithin  ourselves,  teach- 
ing us  to  say,  "  Abba,  Father." 

CUDWORTH. 


ASSURANCE.  17 


If    you  would  have  clear  and  irrefragable  for   a  perpetual 

joy,  a  glory  and  a  defense,  the  unwavering  confidence,  "  I  am 

Thy  child,"  go  to  God's  throne,  and  lie  down  at  the  foot  of  it, 

and  let  the  first  thought  be,  "  My  Father  in  heaven;  "  and  that 

will  brighten,  that  will  establish,  that  will  make  omnipotent  in 

your  life,  the  witness  of  the  Spirit  that  you  are   the  child  of 

God. 

—  Alexander  Maclarex. 


One  of  those  poor  fellows  that  had  become  a  Christian  was 

badgered  by  his  companions;  and  one  of  them  said,  "  How  do 

you  know  that  Jesus  Christ  has  forgiven  your  sins  ?  "     The  man 

turned  at  once  and  said,  "  How  do  you  know  when  you  have 

got  sugar  in  your  tea  ?  " 

—  John  B.  Gough. 


Every  one  of  us  may  know  what  is  the  ruling  purpose  of  his 

life;  and  he  who  knows  that  his  ruling  purpose  is  to  trust  and 

follow  Christ  knows  that  he  is  a  Christian. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


"Compassed  about  with  so  great  a  cloud  of  witnesses,"  let  us 
with  firm  and  cheerful  trust  endure  all  trials,  discharge  all  du- 
ties, accept  all  sacrifices,  fulfill  the  law  of  universal  and  impar- 
tial love,  and  adopt  as  our  own  that  cause  of  truth,  righteous- 
ness, humanity,  liberty,  and  holiness, —  which  being  the  cause  of 
the  All-Good,  cannot  but  triumph  over  all  powers  of  evil.  Let 
us  rise  into  blest  assurance  that  everywhere  and  forever  we 
are  enfolded,  penetrated,  guarded,  guided,  kept  by  the  power 
of  the  Father  and  Friend,  who  can  never  forsake  us  ;  and  that 
all  spirits  who  have  begun  to  seek,  know,  love,  and  serve  the 
All-Perfect  One  on  earth  shall  be  reunited  in  a  celestial  home, 
and  be  welcomed  together  into  the  freedom  of  the  universe,  and 

the  perpetual  light  of  His  presence. 

-7  — W.  E.  Channing. 


18  ATHEISM. 


There  are  believers  who  by  God's  grace,  have  cUmbed  the 
mountains  of  full  assurance  and  near  communion,  their  place 
is  with  the  eagle  in  his  eyrie,  high  aloft ;  they  are  like  the  strong 
mountaineer,  who  has  trodden  the  virgin  snow,  who  has 
breathed  the  fresh,  free  air  of  the  Alpine  regions,  and  therefore 
his  sinews  are  braced,  and  his  limbs  are  vigorous;  these  are 
they  who  do  great  exploits,  being  mighty  men,  men  of  renown. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


If  you  have  not  the  faith  of  assurance,  practice  at  least  the 
faith  of  adherence.  That,  at  least,  is  in  your  power.  Cleave 
to  God  exactly  as  if  you  were  certain  of  being  accepted  of 
Him  at  last;  and  thus  fulfilling  His  own  conditions,  you  will  be 
accepted  of  Him,  whether  you  are  assured  of  it  beforehand  or 
not. 

—  Jacques  Bonneval. 


ATHEISM. 

The  thing  formed  says  that  nothing  formed  it;  and  that  which 
is  made  is,  while  that  which  made  it  is  not !     The  folly  is  infinite. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


That  the  universe  was  formed  by  a  fortuitous  concourse  of 
atoms,  I  will  no  more  believe  than  that  the  accidental  jumb- 
ling of  the  alphabet  would  fall  into  a  most  ingenious  treatise 
of  philosophy, 

—  Dean  Swift. 


A  little  philosophy   inclineth    man's   mind  to  atheism,  but 
depth  in  philosophy  bringeth  men's  minds  about  to  religion. 

—  Francis  Bacon. 


Atheism  is  rather  in  the  life  than  in  the  heart  of  man. 

—  Francis  Bacon. 


ATHEISM.  19 


Atheism  can  benefit  no  class  of  people ;  neither  the  unfor- 
tunate, whom  it  bereaves  of  hope,  nor  the-  prosperous,  whose 
joys  it  renders  insipid,  nor  the  soldier,  of  whom  it  makes  a 
coward,  nor  the  woman  whose  beauty  and  sensibility  it  mars, 
nor  the  mother, who  has  a  son  to  lose,  nor  the  rulers  of  men, 
who  have  no  surer  pledge  of  the  fidelity  of  their  subjects  than 
religion. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


ingersoll's  atheism  can  never  become  an  institution  ;  it  can 
never  be  more  than  a  destitution. 

—  Robert  Collyer. 


They  that  deny  a  God  destroy  man's  nobility,  for  certainly 
man  is  of  kin  to  the  beasts  by  his  body ;  and  if  he  be  not  of 
kin  to  God  by  his  spirit,  he  is  a  base  and  ignoble  creature. 

—  Francis  Bacon. 


No  one  is  so  much  alone  in  the  universe  as  a  denier  of  God. 
With  an  orphaned  heart,  which  has  lost  the  greatest  of  fathers, 
he  stands  mourning  by  the  immeasurable  corpse  of  nature,  no 
longer  moved  and  sustained  by  the  Spirit  of  the  universe. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


Religion  assures  us  that  our  afflictions  shall  have  an  end;  she 

comforts  us,  she  dries  our  tears,  she  promises  us  another  life. 

On  the  contrary,  in  the  abominable  worship  of  atheism,  human 

woes  are  the  incense,  death  is  the  priest,  a  coffin  the  altar,  and 

annihilation  the  Deity. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


Nothing  enlarges  the  gulf  of  atheism  more  than  the   wide 

passage  that  lies  between  the  faith  and  lives  of  men  pretending 

to  teach  Christianity. 

—  Stillingfleet. 


20  AVARICE. 

I  want  you  to  have  courage  to  declare  yourself  to  be  an  athe- 
ist, or  to  serve  your  god  with  all  your  might  and  power  in  per- 
fect consecration,  whatever  or  whoever  that  god  may  be  — 
whether  it  be  the  crocodile  of  the  Nile  or  our  Jehovah,  "  God 

over  all  blessed  for  evermore." 

—  Charles  F.  Deems. 


Practically  every  man  is  an  atheist,  who  lives  without  God 

in  the  world. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


AVARICE. 

It  is  impossible  to  conceive  any  contrast  more  entire  and  ab- 
solute than  that  which  exists  between  a  heart  glowing  with  love 
to  God,  and  a  heart  in  which  the  love  of  money  has  cashiered 
all  sense  of  God  —  His  love.  His  presence.  His  glory;  and 
which  is  no  sooner  relieved  from  the  mockery  of  a  tedious 
round  of  religious  formalism,  than  it  reverts  to  the  sanctuaries 
where  its  wealth  is  invested,  with  an  intenseness  of  homage 
surpassing  that  of  the  most  devout  Israelite  who  ever,  from  a 
foreign  land,  turned  his  longing  eyes  toward  Jerusalem. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Avarice  is  to  the  intellect  what  sensuality  is  to  the  morals. 

—  Mrs.  Jameson. 


Objects  close  to  the  eye  shut  out  much  larger  objects  on  the 

horizon;  and  splendors  born  only  of  the  earth  eclipse  the  stars. 

So  a  man  sometimes  covers  up  the  entire  disk  of  eternity  with 

a    dollar,    and    quenches    transcendent    glories    with    a   little 

shining  dust. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


Poverty  is  want  of  much,  but  avarice  of  every  thing. 

—  PuBLius  Syrius. 


BACKSLIDING— BAPTISM.  21 

Jesus,  save  me  from  the  infatuation  of  avarice  !     I,  too,  will 
lay  up  a  treasure,  but  Thou  shalt  have  the  keeping  of  it. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


B. 

BACKSLIDING. 

I  never  yet  have  heard  of  a  good  man  having  fallen  when 
he  was  trying  to  do  Christ's  will  and  trusting  on  Christ's  help. 
Every  fall  without  one  exception  came  from  venturing  upon 
sinful  ground  or  from  venturing  upon  self-support. 

—  T.   L.  CUYLER. 


AVhen  we  read  or  hear  how  some  professed  Christian  has 
turned  defaulter,  or  lapsed  into  drunkenness,  or  slipped  from 
the  communion  table  into  open  disgrace,  it  simply  means  that 
a  human  arm  has  broken.  The  man  has  forsaken  the  everlast- 
ing arms. 

—  T.  L.   CUYLER. 

The  master  will  not  keep  His  hand  under  our  arms  when 
we  go  on  forbidden  ground.  Presumptuous  Peter  needed  a  sharp 
lesson,  and  he  got  it.  That  bitter  cry  at  the  foot  of  the  stairs 
bespoke  an  awful  fall.  How  many  such  are  rising  daily  into 
God's  listening  ears. 

—  T.    L.    CUYLER. 


BAPTISM. 
Only  what  coronation  is  in  an  earthly  way,  baptism  is  in  a 
heavenly  way;  God's  authoritative  declaration  in  material  form 

of  a  spiritual  reality. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson, 


22  BEAUTY  —  BELIEF. 

Oh  !  for  this  baptism  of  fire  !  when  every  spoken  word  for 
Jesus  shall  be  a  thunderbolt,  and  every  prayer  shall  bring  forth  a 
mighty  flood. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE, 


BEAUTY. 
Beauty  itself  is  but  the  sensible  image  of  the  infinite. 

—  George  Bancroft. 


The  gospel  allies  itself  with  all  that  is  beautiful  in  the  uni- 
verse, as  truly  as  with  all  that  is  noble  and  pure. 

—  Samuel  Wolcott. 


Eyes  raised  toward   heaven  are  always  beautiful,  whatever 

they  be. 

—  Joseph  Joubert. 


He  hath  a  daily  beauty  in  his  life. 

—  Shakspeare. 


I  pray  the  prayer  of  Plato  old, — 
"God  make  thee  beautiful  within." 

—  J.  G.  Whittier. 


BELIEF. 

What  is  meant  by  believing  in  Christ  but  just  going  with 

trusting  and  loving  hearts,  and  committing  to  His  love  and  power 

ourselves,   our  souls,   and  all  that  concerns  us  for  time   and 

eternity? 

—  A.  H.  Boyd. 


Begin  by  regarding  every  thing  from  a  moral  point  of  view, 

and  you  will  end  by  believing  in  God. 

—  Dr.  Arnold. 


BELIEF.  23 

To  believe  is  to  be  happy;  to  doubt  is  to  be  wretched.  To 
believe  is  to  be  strong.  Doubt  cramps  energy.  Belief  is 
power.  Only  so  far  as  a  man  believes  strongly,  mightily,  can  he 
act  cheerfully,  or  do  any  thing  that  is  worth  the  doing. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson, 

If  you  wish  to  be  assured  of  the  truth  of  Christianity,  try  it. 
Believe,  and  if  thy  belief  be  right,  that  insight  which  gradually 
transmutes  faith  into  knowledge  will  be  the  reward  of  thy 
belief.  —  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


He  that  will  believe  only  what  he  can  fully  comprehend, 
must  have  a  very  long  head,  or  a  very  short  creed. 

C.   C.    COLTON. 

The  man  who  goes  through  life  with  an  uncertain  doctrine 
not  knowing  what  he  believes,  what  a  poor,  powerless  creature 
he  is  !  He  goes  around  through  the  world  as  a  man  goes  down 
through  the  street  with  a  poor,  wounded  arm,  forever  dodging 
people  he  meets  on  the  street  for  fear  they  may  touch  him. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 

/  • 

If  that  impression  does  not  remain  on  this  intrepid  and 
powerful  people,  into  whose  veins  all  nations  pour  their  min- 
gling blood,  it  will  be  our  immense  calamity.  Public  action, 
without  it,  Avill  lose  the  dignity  of  consecration.  Eloquence, 
without  it,  will  miss  what  is  loftiest,  will  give  place  to  a  careless 
and  pulseless  disquisition,  or  fall  to  the  flatness  of  political 
slang.  Life,  without  it,  will  lose  its  sacred  and  mystic  charm. 
Society,  without  it,  will  fail  of  inspirations,  and  be  drowned  in 
an  animalism  whose  rising  tides  will  keep  pace  with  its  wealth. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


Now  God  be  praised,  that  to  believing  souls, 
Gives  light  in  darkness,  comfort  in  despair  ! 

—  Shakspeare. 


34  BENEFICENCE. 


BENEFICENCE. 

There  cannot  be  a  more  glorious  object  in  creation  than  a 
human  being  replete  with  benevolence,  meditating  in  what 
manner  he  might  render  himself  most  acceptable  to  his  Creator 
by  doing  most  good  to  His  creatures. 


—  Fielding. 


Great  minds,  like  heaven,  are  pleased  in  doing  good. 

—  ROWE. 


Never    try    to    save  out  of    God's  cause;  such  money  will 

canker  the  rest.     Giving  to  God  is  no  loss;  it  is  putting  your 

substance  in  the  best  bank.     Giving  is  true  having,  as  the  old 

gravestone  said  of  the  dead  man:    "What  I  spent  I  had,  what 

I  saved  I  lost,  what  I  gave  I  have." 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Learn  the  luxury  of  doing  good, 

—  Goldsmith. 


By  doing  good  with  his  money,  a  man,  as  it  were,  stamps  the 
image  of  God  upon  it,  and  makes  it  pass  current  for  the  mer- 
chandise of  heaven. 

RUTLEDGE. 


Wealth  tends  to  materialize  the  soul.  Every  contribution  to 
spiritual  objects  counteracts  the  tendency.  It  is  another  step 
up  the  ladder,  whose  foot  is  deep  down  in  materialism,  but 
whose  top  reaches  to  the  holy  heavens  of  spirit  and  love. 


Liberality  consists  not  so  much  in  giving  a  great  deal  as  in 

giving  seasonably. 

—  Bruyere. 


BENEFICENCE.  25 


Proportion  thy  charity  to  the  strength  of  thy  estate,  lest  God 
proportion  thy  estate  to  the  weakness  of  thy  charity.  Let  the 
lips  of  the  poor  be  the  trumpet  of  thy  gift,  lest  in  seeking  ap- 
plause thou  lose  thy  reward.  Nothing  is  more  pleasing  to  God 
than  an  open  hand  and  a  close  mouth. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 

Give  with  a  heart  glowing  with  generous  sentiments;  give  as 
the  fountain  gives  out  its  waters  from  its  own  swelling  depths; 
give  as  the  air  gives  its  vital  breezes,  unrestrained  and  free ; 
give  as  the  sun  gives  out  its  light,  from  the  infinite  abysses  of  its 
own  nature. 


Poverty  is  the  load  of  some,  and  wealth  is  the  load  of  others, 
perhaps  the  greater  load  of  the  two.  It  may  weigh  them  to 
perdition.  Bear  the  load  of  thy  neighbor's  poverty,  and  let 
him  bear  with  thee  the  load  of  thy  wealth.  Thou  lightenest 
thy  load  by  lightening  his. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


He  who  waits  to  do  a  great  deal  of  good  at  once,  will  never 
do  any  thing. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


Open  your  hands,  ye  whose  hands  are  full  !  The  world  is 
waiting  for  you  !  The  whole  machinery  of  the  Divine  benefi- 
cence is  clogged  by  your  hard  hearts  and  rigid  fingers.  Give 
and  spend,  and  be  sure  that  God  will  send  ;  for  only  in  giving 
and  spending  do  you  fulfill  the  object  of  His  sending. 

—  T-  G.  Holland. 


Be  charitable  before  wealth  makes  thee  covetous. 

—  Sir  Thomas  Browne. 


Honor  the  Lord  with  thy  substance. 


26  BENEFICENCE. 


"  Not  for  ourselves,  but  for  others,"  is  the  grand  law  in- 
scribed on  every  part  of  creation. 


—  Edward  Payson. 


Every  day  should  be  distinguished  by  at  least  one  particular 

act  of  love. 

—  Lavater. 


My  brethren,  surely  the  time  has  come  for  us  to  return  to 
the  Lord's  plan.  Among  us  there  are  children  to  be  clothed, 
widows  to  be  aided,  and  afflicted  ones  to  be  cared  for.  As 
you  draw  near  to  the  poor,  the  Saviour  will  come  nearer  to  you. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


I  have  heard  of  a  monk  who  in  his  cell,  had  a  glorious  vis- 
ion of  Jesus  revealed  to  him.  Just  then,  a  bell  rang,  which 
called  him  away  to  distribute  loaves  of  bread  among  the  poor 
beggars  at  the  gate.  He  was  sorely  tried  as  to  whether  he 
should  lose  a  scene  so  inspiring.  He  went  to  his  act  of  mercy; 
and  when  he  came  back,  the  vision  remained  more  glorious 
than  ever. 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


Every    man  who  becomes  heartily  and    understandingly  a 

channel  of  the  Divine  beneficence,  is  enriched  through  every 

league  of  his  life.     Perennial  satisfaction  springs  around  and 

within  him  with  perennial  verdure.     Flowers  of  gratitude  and 

gladness  bloom  all  along  his  pathway,  and  the  melodious  gurgle 

of  the  blessings  he  bears  is   echoed   back  by  the  melodious 

waves  of  the  recipient  stream. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


So  quickly  sometimes  has  the  wheel  turned  round,  that  many 

a  man  has  lived  to  enjoy  the  benefit  of  that  charity  which  his 

own  piety  projected. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 


BEREAVEMENT.  27 


What  do  you  think  God  gave  you  more  wealth  than  is  requi- 
site to  satisfy  your  rational  wants  for,  when  you  look  around 
and  see  how  many  are  in  absolute  need  of  that  which  you  do 
not  need  ?     Can  you  not  take  the  hint  ? 

- — J.  G.  Holland. 


BEREAVEMENT. 

A  genuine  faith  lifts  us  above  the  bitterness  of  grief;  a  sense 
of  Christ's  living  presence  takes  away  all  unbearable  loneliness 
even  when  we  are  most  alone.  In  our  darkest  hours,  to  know 
that  our  lost  friend  is  still  living,  still  loving  us,  still  ours,  in 
the  highest  and  best  sense, must  be  unspeakably  consoling. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Is  it  well  with  the  child  ?     And  she  answered.  It  is  well. 

—  Bible. 


Believe  me,  it  is  no  time  for  words  when  the  wounds  are 
fresh  and  bleeding  ;  no  time  for  homilies  when  the  lightning's 
shaft  has  smitten,  and  the  man  lies  stunned  and  stricken. 
Then  let  the  comforter  be  silent ;  let  him  sustain  by  his  pres- 
ence, not  by  his  j)reaching ;  by  his  sympathetic  silence,  not  by 

his  speech. 

—  George  C.  Lorlmer. 


The  mossy  marbles  rest 

On  the  lips  that  he  has  pressed 

In  their  bloom; 

And  the  names  he  loved  to  hear 

Have  been  carved  for  many  a  year 

On  the  tomb. 

—  O.  W.  Holmes. 


28  BIBLE. 

Over  the  river  they  beckon  to  me, 

Loved  ones  who've  crossed  to  the  farther  side, 

The  gleam  of  their  snowy  robes  I  see, 

But  their  voices  are  lost  in  the  dashing  tide. 

—  N.  A.  W.  Priest. 


Yes,  we  all  live  to  God  ! 

Father,  Thy  chastening  rod, 
So  help  us.  Thine  afflicted  ones,  to  bear. 

That  in  the  spirit  land. 

Meeting  at  Thy  right  hand, 
'Twill  be  our  heaven  to  find  that  He  is  there  ! 

—  John  Pierpont. 


BIBLE. 

We  believe  that  the  Holy  Bible  was  written  by  men  divinely 
inspired,  and  is  a  perfect  treasure  of  heavenly  instruction  ;  that 
it  has  God  for  its  author,  salvation  for  its  end,  and  truth  with- 
out any  mixture  of  error  for  its  matter  ;  that  it  reveals  the 
principles  by  which  God  will  judge  us,  and  therefore  is,  and 
shall  remain  to  the  end  of  the  world,  the  true  center  of  Chris- 
tian union,  and  the  supreme  standard  by  which  all  human  con- 
duct, creeds,  and  opinions  should  be  tried. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


The  Bible  is  God's  chart  for  you  to  steer  by,  to  keep  you 
from  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  and  to  show  you  where  the  harbor 
is,  and  how  to  reach  it  without  running  on  rocks  or  bars. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


The  Bible,  as  a  revelation  from  God,  was  not  designed  to 
give  us  all  the  information  we  might  desire,  nor  to  solve  all  the 
questions  about  which  the  human  soul  is  perplexed,  but  to  im- 
part enough  to  be  a  safe  guide  to  the  haven  of  eternal  rest. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


BIBLE.  29 

It  is  not  simply  a  theological  treatise,  a  code  of  laws,  a  re- 
ligious homily,  but  the  Bible  —  the  book  —  while  the  only  book 
for  the  soul,  the  best  book  for  the  mind. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


The  Bible  is  a  window  in  this  prison-world,  through  which 
we  may  look  into  eternity.  — Timothy  Dwight. 


The  Bible  abounds   in  plain  truth,  expressed  in  plain  lan- 
guage; in  this  it  surpasses  all  other  books. 

—  Whelpley. 


The  Bible  alone  of  all  the  books  in  the  world,  instead  of 
uttering  the  opinions  of  the  successive  ages  that  produced  it, 
has  been  the  antagonist  of  these  opinions. 

—  Stuart  Robinson. 


The  Bible  has  been  my  guide  in  j^erplexity,  and  my  comfort 
in  trouble.  It  has  roused  me  when  declining,  and  animated 
me  in  languor.  Other  writings  may  be  good,  but  they  want 
certainty  and  force.  ■  The  Bible  carries  its  own  credentials  along 
with  it,  and  proves  spirit  and  life  to  the  soul.  In  other  writ- 
ings I  hear  the  words  of  a  stranger  or  a  servant.  In  the  Bible 
I  hear  the  language  of  my  Father  and  my  friend.  Other  books 
contain  only  the  picture  of  bread.  The  Bible  presents  me  with 
real  manna,  and  feeds  me  with  the  bread  of  life. 


You  will  want  a  book  which  contains  not  man's  thoughts, 
but  God's  —  not  a  book  that  may  amuse  you,  but  a  book  that 
can  save  you  —  not  even  a  book  that  can  instruct  you,  but  a 
book  on  which  you  can  venture  an  eternity  —  not  only  a  book 
which  can  give  relief  to  your  spirit,  but  redemption  to  your 
soul  —  a  book  which  contains  salvation,  and  conveys  it  to  you, 
one  which  shall  at  once  be  the  Saviour's  book  and  the  sinner's. 

— ^JoHN  Selden. 


30  BIBLE. 

The  life-boat  may  have  a  tasteful  bend  and  beautiful  deco- 
ration, but  these  are  not  the  qualities  for  which  I  prize  it ;  it 
was  my  salvation  from  the  howling  sea  !  So  the  interest  which 
a  regenerate  soul  takes  in  the  Bible,  is  founded  on  a  personal 
application  to  the  heart  of  the  saving  truth  which  it  contains. 

' — J.  W.  Alexander. 

The  Bible  is  the  treasure  of  the  poor,  the  solace  of  the  sick, 
and  the  support  of  the  dying;  and  while  other  books  may 
amuse  and  instruct  in  a  leisure  hour,  it  is  the  peculiar  triumph 
of  that  book  to  create  light  in  the  midst  of  darkness,  to  allevi- 
ate the  sorrow  which  admits  of  no  other  alleviation,  to  direct 
a  beam  of  hope  to  the  heart  which  no  other  topic  of  consola- 
tion can  reach  ;  while  guilt,  despair,  and  death  vanish  at  the 

touch  of  its  holy  inspiration. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


The  Bible  is  a  treasure.  It  contains  enough  to  make  us 
rich  for  time  and  eternity.  It  contains  the  secret  of  happy 
living.  It  contains  the  key  of  heaven.  It  contains  the  title- 
deeds  of  an  inheritance  incorruptible,  and  that  fadeth  not  away. 
It  contains  the  pearl  of  great  price.  Nay,  in  so  far  as  it  re- 
veals them  as  the  portion  of  us  sinful  worms,  it  contains  the 

Saviour  and  the  living  God  Himself. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  Bible  is  a  warm  letter  of  affection  from  a  parent  to  a 
child ;  and  yet  there  are  many  who  see  chiefly  the  severer  pas- 
sages. As  there  may  be  fifty  or  sixty  nights  of  gentle  dews  in 
one  summer,  that  will  not  cause  as  much  remark  as  one  hail- 
storm of  half  an  hour,  so  there  are  those  who  are  more  struck 
by  those  passages  of  the  Bible  that  announce  the  indignation 
of  God  than  by  those  that  announce  His  affection. 

—  T.  DeWitt  Talmage. 


BIBLE.  31 

The  Bible  is  not  only  the  revealer  of  the  unknown  God  to 
man,  but  His  grand  interpreter  as  the  God  of  nature.  In  re- 
vealing God,  it  has  given  us  the  key  that  unlocks  the  profound- 
est  mysteries  of  creation,  the  clew  by  which  to  thread  the  laby- 
rinth of  the  universe,  the  glass  through  which  to  look  from 
Nature  up  to  Nature's  God. 

—  L.  J.  Halsey. 


I  cannot  look  around  me  without  being  struck  with  the  anal- 
ogy observable  in  the  works  of  God.  I  find  the  Bible  written 
in  the  style  of  His  other  books  of  Creation  and  Providence. 
The  pen  seems  in  the  same  hand.  I  see  it,  indeed,  write  at 
times  mysteriously  in  each  of  these  books  ;  thus  I  know  that 
mystery  in  the  works  of  God  is  only  another  name  for  my 
ignorance.  The  moment,  therefore,  that  I  become  humble,  all 
becomes  right. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


The  Bible  is  the  most  thought-suggesting  book  in  the  world. 
No  other  deals  with  such  grand  themes. 

—  Herrick  Tohnson. 


Open  Thou  mine   eyes,  that  I  may  behold  wondrous  things 
out  of  Thy  law. 

—  Psalms. 


One  gem  from  that  ocean  is  worth  all   the    pebbles    from 
earthly  streams. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


I  have  carefully  and  regularly  perused  the  Holy  Scriptures, 
and  am  of  opinion  that  the  volume  contains  more  sublimity, 
purer  morality,  more  important  history,  and  finer  strains  of 
eloquence,  than  can  be  collected  from  all  other  books,  in  what- 
ever language  they  may  have  been  written. 

—  Sir  William  Jones. 


32  BIBLE. 

It  is  impossible  to  look  into  the  Bible  with  the  most  ordinary 
attention  without  feeling  that  we  have  got  into  a  moral  atmos- 
phere quite  different  from  that  which  we  breathe  in  the  world, 
and  in  the  world's  literature. 

—  Thomas  Erskine. 


This  Bible,  then,  has  a  mission,  grander  than  any  mere 
creation  of  God;  for  in  this  volume  are  infinite  wisdom,  and 
infinite  love.  Between  its  covers  are  the  mind  and  heart  of 
God;  and  they  are  for  man's  good,  for  his  salvation,  his  guid- 
ance, his  spiritual  nourishment.  If  now  I  neglect  my  Bible,  I 
do  my  soul  a  wrong;  for  the  fact  of  this  Divine  message  is  evi- 
dence that  I  need  it. 

— -A.     E.    KiTTREDGE. 


The  Old  and  New  Testaments  contain  but  one  scheme  of 
religion.  Neither  part  of  this  scheme  can  be  understood  with- 
out the  other. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


The  Saviour  who  flitted  before  the  patriarchs  through  the  fog 
of  the  old  dispensation,  and  who  spake  in  time  past  to  the 
fathers  by  the  prophets,  articulate  but  unseen,  is  the  same 
Saviour  who,  on  the  open  heights  of  the  gospel,  and  in  the 
abundant  daylight  of  this  New  Testament,  speaks  to  us.  Still 
all  along  it  is  the  same  Jesus,  and  that  Bible  is  from  beginning 
to  end,  all  of  it,  the  word  of  Christ. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Throw  away  the  Old  Testament  !  What  part  of  it  will 
you  throw  away  ?  That  which  I  do  not  understand }  Take 
down  then  yonder  blood-stained  cross;  for  there  is  a  love  there 
"which  passeth  knowledge,"  and  a  Divine  hatred  of  sin  which 
shook  the  solid  earth. 

A.   E.    KiTTREDGE. 


BIBLE.  33 

The  Psalms  are  an  everlasting  manual  to  the  soul  ;  the  book 
of  its  immortal  wishes,  its  troubles,  its  aspirations,  and  its  hopes; 
sung  in  every  tongue,  and  in  every  age;  destined  to  endure 
while  the  universe  of  God  has  light,  harmony,  or  grandeur, 
while  man  has  religion  or  sensibility,  while  language  has  sub- 
limity or  sweetness. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Let  your  daughter  have  first  of  all  the  book  of  Psalms  for 

holiness  of  heart,  and  be  instructed  in  the  Proverbs  of  Solomon 

for  her  godly  life. 

—  St.  Jerome. 


High  above  all  earthly  lower  happiness,  the  blessedness  of 
the  eight  Beatitudes  towers  into  the  heaven  itself.  They  are 
white  with  the  snows  of  eternity;  they  give  a  space,  a  meaning, 
a  dignity  to  all  the  rest  of  the  earth  over  which  they  brood. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


I  am  heartily  glad  to  witness  your  veneration   for  a  Book 

which  to  say  nothing  of  its  holiness  or  authority,  contains  more 

specimens   of    genius    and    taste    than    any    other   volume    in 

existence. 

—  W.  S.  Landor. 


Intense  study  of  the  Bible  will  keep  any  man  from  being 

vulgar  in  point  of  style. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


If  there  be  any  thing  in  my  style  or  thought  to  be  com- 
mended, the  credit  is  due  to  my  kind  parents  in  instilling  into 
my  mind  an  early  love  of  the  Scriptures. 

—  Daniet,  Webster. 


The  word  of  the  Lord  is  tried. 


34  BIBLE. 

The  English  Bible  —  a  book  which,  if  every  thing  else  in 
our  language  should  perish,  would  alone  suffice  to  show  the 
whole  extent  of  its  beauty  and  power. 

—  T.  B.  Macaulay. 


Wherever  God's  word  is  circulated,  it  stirs  the  hearts  of  the 

people,  it  prepares  for  public  morals.     Circulate  that  word,  and 

you  find  the  tone  of  morals  immediately  changed.     It  is  God 

speaking  to  man. 

—  Bishop  Simpson. 


Wherever  public  worship  has  been  established  and  regularly 
maintained,  idolatry  has  vanished  from  the  face  of  the  earth. 
There  is  not  now  a  temple  to  a  heathen  god  where  the  word  of 
God  is  read. 

—  Bishop  Simpson. 


The  increasing  influence  of  the  Bible  is  marvelously  great, 

penetrating  everywhere.     It  carries  with  it  a  tremendous  power 

of  freedom  and  justice  guided  by  a  combined  force  of  wisdom 

and  goodness. 

—  Mori. 

We  may  persuade  men  that  are  infidels  to  receive  the  Script- 
ures as  the  word  of  God  by  rational  arguments  drawn  from 
their  antiquity;  the  heavenliness  of  the  matter;  the  majesty 
of  the  style ;  the  harmony  of  all  the  parts  though  written  in 
different  ages;  the  exact  accomplishment  of  prophecies;  the 
sublimity  of  the  mysteries  and  matters  contained  in  the  word; 
the  efficacy  and  power  of  it,  in  the  conviction  and  conversion 
of  multitudes;  the  scope  of  the  whole, —  to  guide  men  to  attain 
their  chief  end, —  the  glory  of  God  in  their  own  salvation;  and 
the  many  miracles  wrought  for  the  confirmation  of  the  truth  of 

the  doctrines  contained  in  them. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


BIBLE.  35 

What  other  book  besides  the  Bible  could  be  heard  in  public 
assemblies  from  year  to  year,  with  an  attention  that  never  tires, 
and  an  interest  that  never  cloys  ? 

—  Robert  Hall. 


The  grand  old  Book  of  God  still  stands;  and  this  old  earth, 
the  more  its  leaves  are  turned  over  and  pondered,  the  more  it 
will  sustain  and  illustrate  the  Sacred  word. 

—  James  D.  Dana. 


The  books  of  men  have  their  day  and  grow  obsolete.     God's 
word  is  like  Himself,  "the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever." 

—  R.  Payne  Smith. 


Christianity  claims  that  the  supernatural  is  as  reasonable  as 
the  natural,  that  man  himself  is  supernatural  as  truly  as  he  is 
natural,  and  that  the  Bible  is  so  clearly  the  word  of  God  by 
proofs  that  are  unanswerable,  that  it  is  unreasonable  to  disbe- 
lieve its  divine  truths. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Eighteen  centuries  have  passed  since  the  Bible  was  fin- 
ished. They  have  been  centuries  of  great  changes.  In  their 
course  the  world  has  been  wrought  over  into  newness  at  almost 
every  point.  But,  to-day,  the  text  of  the  Scriptures,  after 
copyings  almost  innumerable  and  after  having  been  tossed  about 
through  ages  of  ignorance  and  tumult,  is  found  by  exhaustive 
criticism  to  be  unaltered  in  every  important  particular  —  there 
being  not  a  single  doctrine,  nor  duty,  nor  fact  of  any  grade, 
that  is  brought  into  question  by  variations  of  readings  —  a  fact 
that  stands  alone  in  the  history  of  such  ancient  literature. 

—  E.  F.  Burr. 


The  best  evidence  of  the  Bible's  being  the  word  of  God  is 
to  be  found  between  its  covers.     It  proves  itself. 

—  Charles  Hodge. 


36  BIBLE. 

We  glory  most  in  the  fact,  that  Scripture  so  commends  itself 

to  the  conscience,  and  experience  so  bears  out  the  Bible,  that 

the  gospel  can  go  the  round  of  the  world,  and  carry  with  it,  in 

all  its  travel,  its  own  mighty  credentials. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


All  that  has  been  done  to  weaken  the  foundation  of  an  im- 
plicit faith  in  the  Bible,  as  a  whole,  has  been  at  the  expense  of 
the  sense  of  religious  obligation,  and  at  the  cost  of  human 
happiness. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Do  not  mathematics  and  all  sciences  seem  full  of  contradic- 
tions and  impossibilities  to  the  ignorant,  which  are  all  resolved 
and  cleared  to  those  that  understand  them  .' 

—  Richard  Baxter. 


The  piecemeal  criticism  which,  like  the  fly,  scans  only  the 
edge  of  a  plinth  in  the  great  edifice  upon  which  it  crawls,  dis- 
appears under  a  criticism  that  is  all-comprehending  and  all- 
surveying. 

—  Prof.  Shedd. 


The  word  of  God  is  solid  ;  it  will  stand  a  thousand  read- 
ings ;  and  the  man  who  has  gone  over  it  the  most  frequently 
and  the  most  carefully  is  the  surest  of  finding  new  wonders 

there. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  Scripture  is  to  be  its  own  interpreter,  or  rather  the 
Spirit  speaking  in  it  ;  nothing  can  cut  the  diamond  but  the 
diamond  ;  nothing  can  interpret  Scripture  but  Scripture. 

—  Richard  Watson. 


All  Scripture  is  given  by  inspiration  of  God. 

—  Bible. 


BIBLE.  37 

The  main  condition  is  that  the  spiritual  ear  should  be  open 
to  overhear  and  patiently  take  in,  and  the  will  ready  to  obey 
that  testimony  which,  I  believe,  God  bears  in  every  human 
heart,  however  dull,  to  those  great  truths  which  the  Bible  re- 
veals. This,  and  not  logic,  is  the  way  to  grow  in  religious 
knowledge,  to  know  that  the  truths  of  religion  are  not  shadows, 
but  deep  realities. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 

Many  books  in  my  library  are  now  behind  and  beneath  me. 
They  were  good  in  their  way  once,  and  so  were  the  clothes  I 
wore  when  I  was  ten  years  old  ;  but  I  have  outgrown  them. 
Nobody  ever  outgrows  Scripture ;  the  book  widens  and  deep- 
ens with  our  years, 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


If  thou  desire  to  profit,   read  with  humility,  simplicity,  and 
faithfulness  ;  nor  even  desire  the  repute  of  learning. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


If  the  Bible  is  God's  word,  and  we  believe  it,  let  us  handle 
it  with  reverence. 

—  John  B.  Gough. 


I  believe  that  the  want  of  our  age  is  not  more  "  free  "  hand- 
ling of  the  Bible,  but  more  "  reverent  "  handling,  more  humil- 
ity, more  patient  study,  and  more  prayer. 

—  J.  C.  RVLE. 

If  you  are  ever  tempted  to  speak  lightly  or  think  lightly  of 
it,  just  sit  down  and  imagine  what  this  world  would  be  with- 
out it.  No  Bible  !  A  wound  and  no  cure,  a  storm  and  no 
covert,  a  condemnation  and  no  shrift,  a  lost  eternity  and  no 
ransom  !  Alas  for  us  if  this  were  all;  alas  for  us  if  the  ladder 
of  science  were  the  only  stair  to  lead  us  up  to  Crod  ! 

—  R.  R.  Meredith. 


38  BIBLE. 

If  God  is  a  reality,  and  the  soul  is  a  reality,  and  you  are  an 
immortal  being,  what  are  you  doing  with  your  Bible  shut  ? 

—  Herrick   Johnson. 


Other  books  we  may  read  and  criticise.      To  the  Scriptures 
we  must  bow  the  entire  soul,  with  all  its  faculties. 

—  E.   N.   Kirk. 


Let  the  oracles  of  inspiration  be  cited  continually,  both  as 

authority  and   illustration,  in   a  manner   that   shall   make   the 

mind  instantly  refer  each  expression  that  is  introduced  to  the 

venerable  book  whence  it  is  taken;  but  let  oiir  part  of  religious 

language  be   simply  ours,   and  let  those  oracles  retain  their 

characteristic  form  of  expression  unimitated,  unparodied  to  the 

end  of  time. 

—  John  Foster. 


There  are  many  persons  of  combative  tendencies,  who  read 
for  ammunition,  and  dig  out  of  the  Bible  iron  for  balls.  They 
read,  and  they  find  nitre  and  charcoal  and  sulphur  for  powder. 
They  read,  and  they  find  cannon.  They  read,  and  they  make  port- 
holes and  embrasures.  And  if  a  man  does  not  believe  as  they 
do,  they  look  upon  him  as  an  enemy,  and  let  fly  the  Bible  at 
him  to  demolish  him.  So  men  turn  the  word  of  God  into  a 
vast  arsenal,  filled  with  all  manner  of  weapons,  offensive  and 

defensive. 

—  H.  W.   Beecher. 


A  loving  trust  in  the  Author  of  the  Bible  is  the  best  prepa- 
ration for  a  wise  study  of  the  Bible. 

—  H.   Clay  Trumbull. 

The  reason  why  we  find  so  many  dark  places  in  the  Bible  is, 

for  the  most  part,  because  there  are  so  many  dark  places  in  our 

hearts. 

—  A.  Tholuck. 


BIBLE.  39 

When  you  are  reading  a  book  in  a  dark  room,  and  come  to  a 
dilificult  part,  you  take  it  to  a  window  to  get  more  light.  So 
take  your  Bibles  to  Christ. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


My  own  experience  is  that  the  Bible  is  dull  when  I  am  dull. 
When  I  am  really  alive,  and  set  in  upon  the  text  with  a  tidal 
pressure  of  living  affinities,  it  opens,  it  multiplies  discoveries, 
and  reveals  depths  even  faster  than  I  can  note  them.  The 
worldly  spirit  shuts  the  Bible;  the  Spirit  of  God  makes  it  a  fire, 
flaming  out  all  meanings  and  glorious  truths. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Parents,  I  urge  you  to  make  the  Bible  the  sweetest,  the 
dearest  book  to  your  children;  not  by  compelling  them  to  read  so 
many  chapters  each  day,  which  will  have  the  effect  of  making 
them  hate  the  Bible,  but  by  reading  its  pages  ivith  them,  and 
by  your  tender  parental  love,  so  showing  them  the  beauty  of  its 
wondrous  incidents,  from  the  story  of  Adam  and  Eve  to  the 
story  of  Bethlehem  and  Calvary,  that  no  book  in  the  home  will 
be  so  dear  to  your  children  as  the  Bible;  and  thus  you  will  be 
strengthening  their  minds  with  the  sublimest  truths,  storing 
their  hearts  with  the  purest  love,  and  sinking  deep  in  their 
souls  solid  principles  of  righteousness,  whose  divine  stones  no 
waves  of  temptation  can  ever  move. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Give  the  Bible  the  place  in  your  families  to  which  it  is  justly 
entitled,  and  then,  through  the  unsearchable  riches  of  Christ, 
many  a  household  among  you  may  hereafter  realize  that  most 
blessed  consummation,  and  appear  a  whole  family  in  heaven. 

H.   A.   BOARDMAN. 

Thy  word  have  I  hid  in  mine  heart,  that  I  might  not  sin 
against  Thee. 


40  BIBLE. 

Merely  reading  the  Bible  is  no  use  at  all  without  we  study  it 
thoroughly,  and  hunt  it  through,  as  it  were,  for  some  great  truth. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 

I  never  saw  a  useful  Christian  who  was  not  a  student  of  the 
Bible.  If  a  man  neglects  his  Bible,  he  may  pray  and  ask  God 
to  use  him  in  His  work;  but  God  cannot  make  much  use  of 
him,  for  there  is  not  much  for  the  Holy  Ghost  to  work  upon. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Study  the  Bible  topically.     If  you  will  study  assurance  for  a 

week,  you  will  soon  find  it  is  your  privilege  to  know  that  you 

are  a  child  of  God. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Go  through  John's  Gospel,  and  study  the  "believes,"    the 

"  verilys,"  the  *'  I  ams;  "and  go  through  the  Bible  in  that  way, 

and  it  becomes  a  new  book  to  you. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Do  you  know  a  book  that  you  are  willing  to  put  under  your 

head  for  a  pillow  when  you  lie  dying  ?     Very  well;  that  is  the 

book  you  want  to  study  while  you  are  living.     There  is  but  one 

such  book  in  the  world. 

—  TosEPH  Cook. 


When  you  read  the  sacred  Scriptures,  or  any  other  book, 

never  think  hoiv  you  read,  but  what  you  read. 

—  John  Keimble. 


The  duty  which  God  requireth  of  man  is  obedience  to  His 

revealed  will. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


I  delight  to  do  Thy  will,  O  my  God  ;  yea,  Thy  law  is  within 

my  heart. 

—  Psalms. 


BROTHERHOOD.  41 


BROTHERHOOD. 
Enough  of  good  there  is  in  the  lowest  estate  to  sweeten  life; 
enough  of  evil  in  the  highest  to  check  presumption;  enough 
there  is  of  both  in  all  estates,  to  bind  us  in  compassionate 
brotherhood,  to  teach  us  impressively  that  we  are  of  one  dying 
and  one  immortal  family. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


My  friends,  let  us  try  to  follow  the  Saviour's  steps;  let  us 
remember  all  day  long  what  it  is  to  be  men;  that  it  is  to  have 
every  one  whom  we  meet  for  our  brother  in  the  sight  of  God; 
that  it  is  this,  never  to  meet  any  one,  however  bad  he  may  be, 
for  whom  we  cannot  say,  "  Christ  died  for  that  man,  and  Christ 
cares  for  him  still.  He  is  precious  in  God's  eyes,  and  he  shall 
be  precious  in  mine  also." 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


God  has  taught  in  the  Scriptures  the  lesson  of  a  universal 
brotherhood,  and  man  must  not  gainsay  the  teaching.  Shiver- 
ing in  the  ice-bound  or  scorching  in  the  tropical  regions;  in  the 
lap  of  luxury  or  in  the  wild  hardihood  of  the  primeval  forest; 
belting  the  globe  in  a  tired  search  for  rest,  or  quieting  through 
life  in  the  heart  of  ancestral  woods;  gathering  all  the  decencies 
around  him  like  a  garment,  or  battling  in  fierce  raid  of  crime 
against  a  world  which  has  disowned  him,  there  is  an  inner 
humanness  which  binds  me  to  that  man  by  a  primitive  and  in- 
dissoluble bond.  He  is  my  brother,  and  I  cannot  dissever  the 
relationship.  He  is  my  brother,  and  I  cannot  release*  myself 
from  the  obligation  to  do  him  good. 

— Wm.  M.  Punshon. 

Kings  and  their  subjects,  masters  and  slaves,  find  a  common 
level  in  two  places  —  at  the  foot  of  the  cross,  and  in  the  grave. 

—  C.  C.  Colton- 


43  CARES. 

1  stand  by  my  kind;  and  I  thank  God  for  the  temptations 
that  have  brought  me  into  sympathy  with  them,  as  I  do  for  the 
love  that  urges  me  to  efforts  for  their  good.  I  hail  the  great 
brotherhood  of  trial  and  temptation  in  the  name  of  humanity, 
and  give  them  assurance  that  from  the  Divine  Man,  and  some, 
at  least,  of  His  disciples,  there  goes  out  to  them  a  flood  of 
sympathy  that  would  fain  sweep  them  up  to  the  firm  footing  of 
the  rock  of  safety. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Jesus  throws  down  the  dividing  prejudices  of  nationality, 
and  teaches  universal  love  without  distinction  of  race,  merit,  or 
rank.  A  man's  neighbor,  henceforth,  was  every  one  who 
needed  help,  even  an  enemy.  All  men,  from  the  slave  to  the 
highest,  were  sons  of  one  Father  in  heaven,  and  should  feel 
and  act  toward  each  other,  as  brethren.  No  human  standard 
of  virtue  would  suffice;  no  imitations  of  the  loftiest  examples 
among  men.  Moral  perfection  had  been  recognized  alike  by 
heathen  and  Jews,  as  found  only  in  likeness  to  the  Divine,  and 
that  Jesus  proclaims  as,  henceforth,  the  one  ideal  for  all  hu- 
manity. With  a  sublime  enthusiasm  and  brotherly  love  for 
the  race.  He  rises  above  His  age,  and  announces  a  common 
Father  of  all  mankind,  and  one  grand  spiritual  ideal  in  resem- 
blance to  Him. 

—  J.  C.   Geikie. 


CARES. 

Anxious  care  rests  upon   a  basis  of  heathen  worldly-mind- 
edness  and  of  heathen  misunderstanding  of  the  character  of 

God. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


CARES.  43 

God  gives  us  power  to  bear  all  the  sorrows  of  His  making  ; 
but  He  does  not  give  us  power  to  bear  the  sorrows  of  our  own 
making,  which  the  anticipation  of  sorrow  most  assuredly  is. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Despatch  necessities  ;  life  hath  a  load 
Which  )nust  be  carried  on  —  and  safely  may  ; 
Yet  keep  these  cares  without  thee;  let  the  heart 
Be  God's  alone;  and  choose  the  better  part. 

—  Henry  Vaughan. 


He  that  taketh  his  own  cares  upon  himself  loads  himself  in 
vain  with  an  uneasy  burden.  I  will  cast  all  my  cares  on  God ; 
He  hath  bidden  me  ;  they  cannot  burden  Him. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


He  who  climbs  above  the  cares  of  this  world,  and  turns  his 
face  to  his  God,  has  found  the  sunny  side  of  life.  The  world's 
side  of  the  hill  is  chill  and  freezing  to  a  spiritual  mind;  but  the 
Lord's  presence  gives  a  warmth  of  joy  which  turns  winter  into 
summer. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon, 


I  met  a  brother  who,  describing  a  friend  of  his,  said  he  was 
like  a  man  who  had  dropped  a  bottle,  and  broken  it,  and  put  all 
the  pieces  in  his  bosom,  where  they  were  cutting  him  perpetually. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Why  art  thou  troubled  and  anxious  about  many  things  ?  One 
thing  is  needful  —  to  love  Him  and  to  sit  attentively  at  His 
feet. 

—  Fenelon. 


Care  that  is  entered  once  into  the  breast, 
Will  have  the  whole  possession  ere  it  rest. 


44  CHARACTER. 


I  have  no  cares,     O  blessed  Will  ! 

For  all  my  cares  are  Thine  ; 
I  live  in  triumph,  Lord,  for  Thou 

Hast  made  Thy  triumph  mine. 

—  F.   W.  Faber. 


CHARACTER. 

When  the  captain  throws  out  his  sheet-anchor,  and  the  ship 

"  rides  at  anchor, "   as   it   is  called,  there  is  a  great  strain  on 

every  link  of  that  chain ;  and  if  one  bad  link  breaks,  off  goes 

the   anchor,  and  the  ship  is  driven  before  the  winds,  and  may 

be  destroyed.     Now,  our  character  is  very  much  like  the  chain; 

one  bad  piece  vitiates  and  spoils  it.     So  we  must  have  a  pure 

character. 

—  John  Hall. 


Modern  engineers,  after  having  erected  a  viaduct,  insist  upon 
subjecting  it  to  a  severe  strain  by  a  formal  trial  trip,  before 
allowing  it  to  be  opened  for  public  traffic  ;  and  it  would  almost 
seem  that  God,  in  employing  moral  agents  for  the  carrying  out 
of  His  purposes,  secures  that  they  shall  be  tested  by  some 
dreadful  ordeal,  before  He  fully  commits  to  them  the  work 
which  He  wishes  them  to  perform. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


A  good  character  is  the  best  tombstone.  Those  who  loved 
you,  and  were  helped  by  you,  will  remember  you  when  forget- 
me-nots  are  withered.     Carve  your  name  on  hearts,  and  not  on 

marble. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Only  what  we  have  wrought  into  our  character  during  life 

can  we  take  away  with  us. 

—  Humboldt. 


CHARACTER.  45 


Whatever  capacities  there  may  be  for  enjoyment  or  for  suf- 
fering in  this  strange  being  of  ours,  and  God  only  knows  what 
they  are,  they  will  be  drawn  out  wholly  in  accordance  with 
character. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 

Men  and  brethren,  a  simple  trust  in  God  is  the  most  essen- 
tial ingredient  in  moral  sublimity  of  character. 

— ^  Richard  Fuller. 


Man  can  have  strength  of  character  only  as  he  is  capable  of 
controlling  his  faculties ;  of  choosing  a  rational  end ;  and,  in 
its  pursuit,  of  holding  fast  to  his  integrity  against  all  the  might 
of  external  nature. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


The  materials  of  the  first  temple  were  made  ready  in  soli- 
tude. Those  of  the  last  also  must  be  shaped  in  retirement ;  in 
the  silence  of  the  heart  ;  in  the  quietness  of  home  ;  in  the  prac- 
tice of  unostentatious  duty. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


There  never  has  been  a  great  and  beautiful  character,  which 
has  not  become  so  by  filling  well  the  ordinary  and  smaller 
offices  appointed  of  God. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Character  is  made  up  of  small  duties  faithfully  performed  — 
of  self-denials,  of  self-sacrifices,  of  kindly  acts  of  love  and 
duty. 


I  have  learned  by  experience  that  no  man's  character  can  be 

eventually  injured  but  by  his  own  acts. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


46  CHARITY, 

A  man  is  what  he  is,  not  what  men  say  he  is.  His  charac- 
ter no  man  can  touch.  His  character  is  what  he  is  before  his 
God  and  his  Judge  ;  and  only  himself  can  damage  that.  His 
reputation  is  what  men  say  he  is.  That  can  be  damaged;  but 
reputation  is  for  time,  character  is  for  eternity. 

—  John  B.  Gough. 

Our  character  is  but  the  stamp  on  our  souls  of  the  free  choice 

of  good  or  evil  we  have  made  through  life. 

—  J.  C.   Geikie. 

Character  is  the  product  of  daily,  hourly  actions,  and  words, 
and  thoughts ;  daily  forgivenesses,  unselfishness,  kindnesses, 
sympathies,  charities,  sacrifices  for  the  good  of  others,  struggles 
against  temptation,  submissiveness  under  trial.  Oh,  it  is  these, 
like  the  blending  colors  in  a  picture,  or  the  blending  notes  of 

music,  which  constitute  the  man. 

—  J.  R.   Macduff. 

A  man's  character  is  like  a  fence  —  it  cannot  be  strengthened 
by  whitewash. 


CHARITY. 

Charity  —  gently  to  hear,  kindly  to  judge. 

• — Shakspeare, 

Charity,  like   the  sun,  brightens  every  object  on  which  it 
shines. 


Charity  is  that  rational  and  constant  affection,  which  makes 

us  sacrifice  ourselves  to  the  human  race,  as  if  we  were  united 

with  it,  so  as  to  form  one  individual,  partaking  equally  in  its 

adversity  and  prosperity. 

—  Confucius. 


CHARITY.  -  47 

Why  should  not  our  solemn  duties,  and  our  hastening  end, 
render  us  so  united,  that  personal  contention  would  be  impos- 
sible, in  a  general  sympathy  quickened  by  the  breath  of  a  for- 
bearing and  pitying  charity? 

—  Henry  Giles. 


If  thou  neglectest  thy  love  to  thy  neighbor,  in  vain  thou  pro- 
fessest  thy  love  to  God;  for  by  thy  love  to  God,  the  love  to 
thy  neighbor  is  begotten,  and  by  the  love  to  thy  neighbor,  thy 
love  to  God  is  nourished. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 

A  life  in  any  sphere  that  is  the  expression  and  outflow  of  an 
honest,  earnest,  loving  heart,  taking  counsel  only  of  God  and 
itself,  will  be  certain  to  be  a  life  of  beneficence  in  the  best  pos- 
sible direction. 

— J.  G.  Holland. 

We  may  not  substitute  charity  for  godliness;  but  there  is 
room  for  the  Divine  love  in  the  heart  which  has  been  touched 
by  the  human. 

— Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


An  effort  made  for  the  happiness  of  others  lifts  us  above 
ourselves. 

—  L.  M.  Child. 


Earth  has  not  a  spectacle  more  glorious  or  more  fair  to  show 
than  this  —  love  tolerating  intolerance;  charity  covering,  as 
with  a  vail,  even  the  sin  of  the  lack  of  charity. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  is  no   dearth  of  charity  in  the  world  in  giving,  but 
there  is  comparatively  little  exercised  in  thinking  and  speaking. 

—  Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


4S  CHEERFULNESS. 


I  have  more  confidence  in  the  charity  which  begins  in  the 
home  and  diverges  into  a  large  humanity,  than  in  the  world- 
wide philanthropy  which  begins  at  the  outside  of  our  horizon 

to  converge  into  egotism. 

—  Mrs.  Jameson. 

Nothing  will  make  us  so  charitable  and  tender  to  the  faults 
of  others  as  by  self-examination  thoroughly  to  know  our  own. 

—  Fenelon. 

With  malice  toward  none,  with  charity  for  all,  with  firmness 

in  the  right  —  as  God  gives  us   to  see  the  right  —  let  us  strive 

on  to  finish  the  work  we  are  in. 

—  Abraham  Lincoln. 


CHEERFULNESS. 

Efforts  to  be  permanently  useful  must  be  uniformly  joyous, 

a   spirit   all  sunshine,   graceful   from   very  gladness,  beautiful 

because  bright. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


Cheerful  looks  make  every  dish  a  feast. 

—  Massinger. 


Sweetness  of  spirit  and  sunshine  is  famous  for  dispelling 
fears  and  difficulties ;  patience  is  a  mighty  help  to  the  burden- 
bearer. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  most  manifest  sign  of  wisdom  is  continued  cheerfulness. 

—  Montaigne. 


The  soul  that  perpetually  overflows  with  kindness  and  sym- 
pathy will  always  be  cheerful. 

—  Parke  Godwin. 


CHILDREN.  49 


You  find  yourself  refreshed  by  the  presence  of  cheerful  peo- 
ple. Why  not  make  earnest  effort  to  confer  that  pleasure  on 
others  ? 

—  L.  M.  Child- 


If  good  people  would  but  make  their  goodness  agreeable,  and 
smile  instead  of  frowning  in  their  virtue,  how  many  would  they 
win  to  the  good  cause  ! 

—  Archbishop  Usher. 


I  praise  Thee  while  my  days  go  on ; 

I  love  Thee  while  my  days  go  on  ! 

Through  dark  and  dearth,  through  fire  and  frost. 

With  emptied  arms  and  treasure  lost, 

I  thank  Thee  while  my  days  go  on. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


An    ounce  of  cheerfulness  is  worth  a  i)ound  of  sadness  to 
serve  God  with. 

—  Fuller. 

A  scrip  on  my  back,  and  a  rtaff  in  my  hand, 
I  march  on  in  haste  through  an  enemy's  land ; 
The  road  may  be  rough,  but  it  cannot  be  long;  • 

And  I'll  smooth  it  with  hope,  and  I'll  cheer  it  with  song. 

—  H.  F.  Lyte, 


CHILDREN. 

Jesus  was  the  first  great  teacher  of  men  who  showed  a  genu- 
ine sympathy  for  childhood.  When  He  said  "  Of  such  is  the 
kingdom  of  heaven,"  it  was  a  revelation. 

—  Eggleston. 


Children  have  more  need  of  models  than  of  critics. 

4  — Joseph  Jourert. 


50  CHILDREN. 


God  has  given  you  your  child,  that  the  sight  of  him,  from 
time  to  time,  might  remind  you  of  His  goodness,  and  induce 
you  to  praise  Him  with  fiHal  reverence. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Train  them  to  virtue;  habituate  them  to  industry,  activity, 
and  spirit.  Make  them  consider  every  vice  as  shameful  and 
unmanly.  Fire  them  with  ambition  to  be  useful.  Make  them 
disdain  to  be  destitute  of  any  useful  knowledge.  Fix  their  ambi- 
tion upon  great  and  solid  objects,  and  their  contempt  upon  little, 
frivolous, and  useless  ones.  — John  Adams. 


As  in  the  Master's  spirit  you  take  into  your  arms  the  little 
ones,  His  own  everlasting  arms  will  encircle  them  and  you. 
He  will  pity  both  their  and  your  simplicity;  and  as  in  unseen 
presence  He  comes  again,  His  blessing  will  breathe  upon  you. 

—  Tames  Hamilton. 


Bring  your  little  children  to  the  Saviour.     Place  them  in  His 

arms.     Devote  them  to  His  service.     Born  in  His  camp,  let 

them  wear  from  the  first  His  colors.     Taking  advantage  of 

timely  opportunities,  and  with  all  tenderness  of  spirit,  seek  to 

endear  them  to  the  Friend  of  Sinners,  the  Good  Shepherd  of 

the   lambs,  the  loving  Guardian  of  the  little  children.     And 

not  only  teach  them,  but  govern  them.     And  in  order  to  govern 

them,  govern  yourselves. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Never  despair  of  a  child.     The  one  you  weep  the  most  for 
at  the  mercy-seat  may  fill  your  heart  with  the  sweetest  joys. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


Precious  Saviour  !  come  in  spirit,  and  lay  Thy  strong,  gentle 

grasp  of  love  on  our  dear  boys  and  girls,  and  keep  these  our 

lambs  from  the  fangs  of  the  wolf. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


CHILDREN.  51 


We  speak  of  educating  our  children.     Do  we  know  that  our 
children  also  educate  us .'' 

—  Mrs.  Sigourney. 


Let  us  be  men  with  men,  and  always  children  before  God; 
for  in  His  eyes  we  are  but  children.  Old  age  itself,  in  presence 
of  eternity,  is  but  the  first  moment  of  a  morning. 

—  Joseph  Joubert. 

We  are  but  children,  the  things  that  we  do 
Are  as  sports  of  a  babe  to  the  Infinite  view, 
That  sees  all  our  weakness,  and  pities  it  too. 

And  oh  !  when  aweary,  may  we  be  so  blest 
As  to  sink,  like  an  innocent  child,  to  our  rest, 
And  feel  ourselves  clasped  to  the  Infinite  breast. 

—  F.  BuRGE  Smith. 


I  never  hear  parents  exclaim  impatiently,  "  Children,  you 
must  not  make  so  much  noise,"  that  I  do  not  think  how  soon 
the  time  may  come  when,  beside  the  vacant  seat,  those  parents 
would  give  all  the  worlds  could  they  hear  once  more  the  ring- 
ing laughter  which  once  so  disturbed  them. 

A.   E.    KiTTREDGE. 


Let  your  children  be  as  so  many  flowers,  borrowed  from  God. 
If  the  flowers  die  or  wither,  thank  God  for  a  summer  loan  of 
them. 

—  Rutherford. 


Johnny  is  but  gone  an  hour  or  two  sooner  to  bed  as  children 
are  wont  to  do,  and  we  are  undressing  to  follow.  And  the 
more  we  put  off  the  love  of  this  present  world,  and  all  things 
superfluous  beforehand,  we  shall  have  the  less  to  do  when  we 
lie  down. 

—  Archbishop  Leighton. 


CHILDREN. 


When  our  children  die,  we  drop  them  into  the  unknown, 
shuddering  with  fear.  We  know  that  they  go  out  from  us,  and 
we  stand,  and  pity,  and  wonder.  If  we  receive  news  that  a 
hundred  thousand  dollars  had  been  left  them  by  some  one 
dying,  we  should  be  thrown  into  an  ecstasy  of  rejoicing;  but 
when  they  have  gone  home  to  God,  we  stand,  and  mourn,  and 
pine,  and  wonder  at  the  mystery  of  Providence. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


The  dying  boy  said:  "Father,  don't  you  weep  for  me;  when 
I  get  to  heaven  I  will  go  straight  to  Jesus  and  tell  Him  that  ever 
since  I  can  remember  you  have  tried  to  lead  me  to  Him."  I 
would  rather  have  my  children  say  that  of  me  after  I  am  gone; 
or  if  they  die  before  me,  I  would  rather  they  should  take  that 
message  to  the  Master  than  to  have  a  monument  over  me  reach- 
ing to  the  skies, 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


How  can  a  mother's  heart  feel  cold  or  weary 
Knowing  her  dearer  self  safe,  sheltered,  warm  ? 

How  can  she  feel  her  road  too  dark  or  dreary, 

Who  knows  her  treasure  sheltered  from  the  storm  ? 

How  can  she  sin  ?     Our  hearts  may  be  unheeding. 

Our  God  forgot,  our  holy  saints  defied; 
But  can  a  mother  hear  her  dead  child  pleading. 

And  thrust  those  little  angel  hands  aside  ? 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


Think  of  your  child,  then,  not  as  dead,  but  as  living  ;  not  as 
a  flower  that  has  withered,  but  as  one  that  is  transplanted,  and 
touched  by  a  Divine  hand,  is  blooming  in  richer  colors  and 
sweeter  shades  than  those  of  earth. 

—  Hooker. 


CHOICE.  53 

Better  that  the  light  cloud  should  fade  away  into  heaven 
with  the  morning  breath,  than  travail  through  the  weary  day  to 
gather  in  darkness,  and  in  storm. 

BULWER. 


Ye  have  lost  a  child  —  nay,  she  is  not  lost  to  you,  who  is  found 
to  Christ;  she  is  not  sent  away,  but  only  sent  before;  like  unto 
a  star,  which  going  out  of  our  sight,  doth  not  die  and  vanish, 
but  shineth  in  another  hemisphere. 

—  Rutherford. 


The  glorified   spirit  of  the   infant   is  as  a  star   to  guide  the 
mother  to  its  own  blissful  clime. 

—  Mrs.  Sigourney. 


Dearest  wife,  let  us  go  on  and  faint  not ;  something  of  otirs 
is  in  heaven  besides  the  flesh  of  our  exalted  Saviour,  and  we 
go  on  after  our  ozon. 

—  Rutherford, 


CHOICE. 

You  must  make  your  choice  whether  to  hold  on  to  some 
thing  which  cannot  save  you,  or  let  go,  and  fall  info  the  hands 
of  the  Lord. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


But  for  us  there  are  moments,  O,  how  solemn,  when  destiny 
trembles  in  the  balance,  and  the  preponderance  of  either  scale 
is  by  our  own  choice. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Choose  you  this  day  whom  ye  shall  serve. 

—  Bible. 


54  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 


CHRIST. 

Jesus  !  How  does  the  very  word  overflow  with  sweetness, 
and  light,  and  love,  and  life ;  filling  the  air  with  odors,  like 
precious  ointment  poured  forth ;  irradiating  the  mind  with  a 
glory  of  truths  on  which  no  fear  can  live,  soothing  the  wounds 
of  the  heart  with  a  balm  that  turns  the  sharpest  anguish  into 
delicious  peace,  shedding  through  the  soul  a  cordial  of  immor- 
tal strength.  Jesus  !  the  answer  to  all  our  doubts,  the  spring 
of  all  our  courage,  the  earnest  of  all  our  hopes,  the  charm 
omnipotent  against  all  our  foes,  the  remedy  for  all  weakness, 
the  supply  of  all  our  wants,  the  fullness  of  all  our  desires. 
Jesus !  at  the  mention  of  whose  name  every  knee  shall  bow 
and  every  tongue  confess.  Jesus !  our  power;  Jesus !  our 
righteousness,  our  sanctification,  our  redemption  —  Jesus!  our 
elder  brother,  our  blessed  Lord  and  Redeemer.  Thy  name  is 
the  most  transporting  theme  of  the  church,  as  they  sing  going 
up  from  the  valley  of  tears,  to  their  home  on  the  mount  of 
God  ;  Thy  name  shall  ever  be  the  richest  chord  in  the  harmony 
of  heaven,  while  the  angels  and  the  redeemed  unite  their 
exulting,  adoring  songs  around  the  throne  of  God. 

—  George  W.  Bethune. 


The  ^^  wise  men  "  were  journeying  to  the  manger  —  we  to  the 
throne.  They  \.o  see  a  babe  —  we  to  look  upon  the  King  in 
His  beauty.  They  to  kneel  and  worship  —  we  to  sit  with  Him 
on  His  throne.  That  trembling  star  shone  for  them  through 
the  darkness  of  the  night,  lighting  their  way  —  Jesus  is  always 
with  us,  our  star  of  hope;  and  the  pathway  is  never  dark  where 
He  leads;  for  He  giveth  "  songs  in  the  night." 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Jesus  Christ  is,  in  the  noblest  and  most  perfect  sense,  the 

realized  ideal  of  humanity. 

—  Herder. 


CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY.  55 

The  incarnation  of  God  is  a  necessity  of  human  nature.   If  we 

really  and  truly  have  a  Father,  we  must  be  able  to  clasp  His 

feet  in  our  penitence,  and  to  lean   on  His  breast  in   our  weary 

sorrowfulness. 

—  Charles  F.  Deems. 


Every  unfulfilled  aspiration  of  humanity  in  the  past ;  all  par- 
tial representation  of  perfect  character  ;  all  sacrifices,  nay,  even 
those  of  idolatry,  point  to  the  fulfillment  of  what  we  want,  the 
answer  to  every  longing  —  the  type   of  perfect  humanity,  the 

Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


I  feel  that  one  reason  why  many  real  Christians  do  not  go 

on    their   way    rejoicing   is,  that  they   deify   the    humanity   of 

Christ.     (They  study  the  deity  of  the  Saviour  before  they  look 

to  His  humanity.) 

—  Mrs.  Mary  Winslow. 


Christ's  whole  life  on  earth  was  the  assertion  and  example  of 
true  manliness  —  the  setting  forth  in  living  act  and  word  what 
man  is  meant  to  be,  and  how  he  should  carry  himself  in  this 
world  of  God  —  one  long  campaign  in  which  the  "  tempta- 
tion "  stands  out  as  the  first  great  battle  and  victory. 

—  Thomas  Hughes. 


But  if  there  has  been  on  this  earth  no  real,  perfect  human 
life,  no  love  th'at  never  cooled,  no  faith  that  never  failed, 
which  may  shine  as  a  loadstar  across  the  darkness  of  our  ex- 
perience, a  light  to  light  amidst  all  convictions  of  our  own 
meanness  and  all  suspicions  of  other's  littleness,  why,  we  may 
have  a  religion,  but  we  have  not  a  Christianity.  For  if  we  lose 
Him  as  a  Brother,  we  cannot  feel  Him  as  a  Saviour. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


5G  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 


As  human  voice  and  instrument  blend  in  one  harmony,  as 
human  soul  and  body  blend  in  each  act  of  feeling,  thought,  or 
speech,  so,  as  far  as  we  can  know,  divinity  and  humanity  act 
together  in  the  thought  and  heart  and  act  of  the  one  Christ. 

—  A.  A.  Hodge. 


Christ  was  placed  midmost  in  the  world's  history ;  and  in 
that  central  position.  He  towers  like  some  vast  mountain  to 
heaven  —  the  farther  slope  stretching  backward  toward  the  cre- 
ation, the  hither  slope  toward  the  consummation  of  all  things. 
The  ages  before  look  to  Him  with  prophetic  gaze  ;  the  ages 
since  behold  Him  by  historic  faith  ;  by  both  He  is  seen  in  com- 
mon as  the  brightness  of  the  Father's  glory,  and  the  unspeak- 
able gift  of  God  to  the  race. 


We  believe  that  to  Christ  belongs  creative  power  —  that "  with- 
out Him  was  not  any  thing  made  which  was  made."  We  be- 
lieve that  from  Him  came  all  life  at  first.  In  Him  life  was  as 
in  its  deep  source.  He  is  the  fountain  of  life.  We  believe 
that  as  no  being  comes  into  existence  without  His  creative 
power,  so  none  continues  to  exist  without  His  sustaining  energy. 
We  believe  that  the  history  of  the  world  is  but  the  history  of 
His  influence,  and  that  the  centre  of  the  whole  universe  is  the 

cross  of  Calvary. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  has  the  world  seen  a  phenomenon  like  this  ?  —  a  lonely 
uninstructed  youth,  coming  from  amid  the  moral  darkness  of 
Galilee,  even  more  distinct  from  His  age,  and  from  every 
thing  around  Him,  than  a  Plato  would  be  rising  up  in  some 
wild  tribe  in  Oregon,  assuming  thus  a  position  at  the  head  of 
the  world  and  maintaining  it,  for  eighteen  centuries,  by  the 
pure  self-evidence  of  His  life  and  doctrine. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


CHRIST-    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY.  57 

He  stands  alone  in  unapproachable  grandeur.  Nineteen  cen- 
turies roll  away,  and  His  character  so  lives  that  He  inspires 
millions  of  men  with  impassioned  love.  Other  men  may  seem 
to  be  children  of  their  surroundings;  He  became  what  He 
was  despite  His  surroundings,  and  is  the  only  one  who  can 
say  in  truth  and  holiness,  "  Do  as  1  have  done."  He,  the 
ideal,  the  perfect  one  of  our  race,  appears  in  an  age  when  such 
an  ideal  could  not  have  been  developed  in  act  —  could  not 
have  been  conceived  in  thought.  In  the  theory  of  develop- 
ment the  perfection  of  humanity  is  the  final  result  of  man's 
history  ages  hence.  Christ  therefore  is  the  great  miracle  which 
more  than  any  other  establishes  the  fact  of  miracles.  Christ 
Himself  is  proof  of  His  own  miracles. 

—  Reynolds. 


The  most  destructive  criticism  has  not  been  able  to  dethrone 
Christ  as  the  incarnation  of  perfect  holiness.  The  waves  of  a 
tossing  and  restless  sea  of  unbelief  break  at  His  feet,  and  He 
stands  still  the  supreme  model,  the  inspiration  of  great  souls, 
the  rest  of  the  weary,  the  fragrance  of  all  Christendom,  the  one 
divine  flower  in  the  garden  of  God. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 

Christ's  divinity  accounts  for  His  exaltation  to  the  right 
hand  of  God,  justifies  the  worship  of  angels  and  the  confidence 
of  mankind.  It  makes  clear  His  right  to  the  throne  of  the 
universe,  and  enables  the  mind  to  understand  why  He  is  ex- 
alted in  providence,  in  grace,  and  in  judgment.  It  is  the  unify- 
ing truth  that  harmonizes  all  other  teachings  of  Christianity, 
and  renders  the  entire  system  symmetrical  and  complete. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


Christ  was  either  the  grandest,  guiltiest  of  impostors,  by  a 
marvelous  and  most  subtle  refinement  of  wickedness,  or  He 
was  God  manifest  in  the  flesh. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


58  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 

Newton  supposed  that  all  matter  attracted  other  matter  in- 
versely according  to  the  square  of  the  distance ;  and  the  hy- 
pothesis was  found  to  account  for  the  whole  movements  of  the 
heavenly  bodies  ;  which  all  became  verifications  of  what  New- 
ton supposed  to  be  the  law  of  the  solar  system.  Adopt  the 
hypothesis  that  Jesus  was  what  He  is  represented,  and  the 
whole  of  the  books  and  the  history  becomes  a  verification. 

—  James  McCosh. 


If  Christ  is  the  wisdom  of  God  and  the  power  of  God  in  the 

experience  of  those  who  trust  and  love  Him,  there  needs  no 

further  argument  of  His  divinity. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Whatever  Jesus  is,  the  glorious  Godhead  is;  and  to  have  fel- 
lowship with  the  Son  is  to  have  fellowship  with  the  Father. 
To  know  the  love  of  Christ   is  to  be  filled  with  all  the  fullness 

of  God. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  tears  of  Christ  are  the  pity  of  God.     The  gentleness  of 

Jesus   is  the  long-suffering  of  God.     The  tenderness  of  Jesus 

is  the  love  of  God.     "  He   that  hath  seen   me  hath  seen  the 

Father." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christ  pitied  because  He  loved,  because  He  saw  through  all 

the    wretchedness,  and   darkness,   and  bondage  of    evil;  that 

there  was   in   every  human  soul  a  possibility  of    repentance, 

of  restoration;    a  germ  of  good,  which,  however   stifled    and 

overlaid,  yet  was  capable  of  recovery,  of  health,  of  freedom, 

of  perfection. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


In  His  love  and  in  His  pity  He  redeemed  them. 

—  Bible. 


CHRIST:   LIFE  AND  MINISTRY.  59 

Poor  shepherdless  sheep  !  it  was  His  delight,  as  the  Good 

Shepherd,  to  lead  them  to  rich  pastures;  and  as   they  sat  and 

stood  around  Him,  they  forgot  their  bodily  wants  in  the  beauty 

and  power  of  His  words. 

—  J.  Cunningham  Geikie. 


The  absence  of  sentimentalism  in  Christ's  relations  with  men 
is  what  makes  His  tenderness  so  exquisitely  touching. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


From  the  moment  of  His  self-dedication,  when  He  tlirew 
His  cares  away,  and  went  forth  not  knowing  where  to  lay  His 
head,  the  whole  energy  which  others  spend  on  interests  of  their 
own  was  poured  into  His  human  and  Divine  affections,  and 
filled  His  life  with  an  enthusiasm  resistless  and  unique.  How- 
ever quiet  His  words,  it  is  impossible  not  to  feel  the  tender 
depths  from  which  they  come. 

—  James  Martineau. 

The  life  of  Christ  concerns  Him  who,  being  the  holiest 
among  the  mighty,  and  the  mightiest  among  the  holy,  lifted 
with  His  pierced  hand  empires  off  their  hinges,  and  turned  the 
stream  of  centuries  out  of  its  channel,  and  still  governs  the 
ages. 

—  Jean   Paul  Richter. 


Great  occasions  rally  great  principles,  and  brace  the  mind  to 
a  lofty  bearing,  a  bearing  that  is  even  above  itself.  But  trials 
that  make  no  occasion  at  all,  leave  it  to  show  the  goodness  and 
beauty  it  has  in  its  own  disposition.  And  here  precisely  is  the 
superhuman  glory  of  Christ  as  a  character,  that  He  is  just  as 
perfect,  exhibits  just  as  great  a  spirit  in  little  trials  as  in  great 
ones. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


60  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 

No  other  fame  can  be  compared  with  that  of  Jesus.  He  has 
a  place  in  the  human  heart,  that  no  one  who  ever  lived  has  in 
any  measure  rivaled.  No  name  is  pronounced  with  a  tone  of 
such  love  and  veneration.  All  other  laurels  wither  before  His. 
His  are  ever  kept  fresh  with  tears  of  gratitude. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Unlike  all  other  founders  of  a  religious  faith,  Christ  had  no 
selfishness,  no  desire  of  dominance;  and  His  system,  unlike  all 
other  systems  of  worship,  was  bloodless,  boundlessly  beneficent, 
and  —  most  marvelous  of  all  —  went  to  break  all  bonds  of  body 
and  soul,  and  to  cast  down  every  temporal  and  every  spiritual 

tyranny. 

—  William  Howitt. 


Jesus  Christ  was  born  in  a  stable;  He  was  obliged  to  fly  into 
Egypt;  thirty  years  of  His  life  were  spent  in  a  workshop;  He 
suffered  hunger,  thirst,  and  weariness;  He  was  poor,  despised, 
and  miserable;  He  taught  the  doctrines  of  heaven,  and  no  one 
would  listen.  The  great  and  the  wise  persecuted  and  took 
Him,  subjected  Him  to  frightful  torments,  treated  Him 
as  a  slave,  and  put  Him  to  death  between  two  malefactors, 
having  preferred  to  give  liberty  to  a  robber,  rather  than  to 
suffer  Him  to  escape.  Such  was  the  life  which  our  Lord 
chose;  while  we  are  horrified  at  any  kind  of  humiliation,  and 
cannot  bear  the  slightest  appearance  of  contempt. 

—  Fenelon. 


It  is  the  grandeur  of  Christ's  character  which  constitutes  the 
chief  power  of  His  ministry,  not  His  miracles  or  teachings 
apart  from  His  character.  The  greatest  truth  of  the  gospel  is 
Christ  Himself  —  a  human  body  become  the  organ  of  the 
Divine  nature,  and  revealing,  under  the  conditions  of  an  earthly 

life,  the  glory  of  God. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


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That  image  or  rather  that  Person,  so  human,  yet  so  entirely- 
Divine,  has  a  power  to  fill  the  imagination,  to  arrest  the  affec- 
tions, to  deepen  and  purify  the  conscience,  which  nothing  else 
in  the  world  has. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 

The  sages  and  heroes  of  history  are  receding  from  us,  and 
history  contracts  the  record  of  their  deeds  into  a  narrow  and 
narrower  page.  But  time  has  no  power  over  the  name  and 
deeds  and  words  of  Jesus  Christ. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


In  Christ  we  see  the  strength  of  achievement,  and  the  strength 
of  endurance.  He  moved  with  a  calm  majesty,  like  the  sun. 
The  bloody  sweat,  and  the  crown  of  thorns,  and  the  cross,  were 
full  in  His  eyes;  but  He  was  obedient  unto  death.  In  His 
perfect  self-sacrifice,  we  see  the  perfection  of  strength;  in  the 
love  that  prompted  it,  we  see  the  perfection  of  beauty.  This 
combination  of  self-sacrifice  and  love  must  be  commenced  in 
every  Christian;  and  when  it  shall  be  in  its  spirit  complete  in 
him,  then  will  he  also  be  perfect  in  strength  and  beauty. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


This  it  is  that  gives  a  majesty  so  pure  and  touching  to  the 
historic  figure  of  Christ;  self-abandonment  to  God,  uttermost 
surrender,  without  reserve  or  stipulation,  to  the  guidance  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  from  the  Soul  of  souls;  pause  in  no  darkness, 
hesitation  in  no  perplexity,  recoil  in  no  extremity  of  anguish; 
but  a  gentle  unfaltering  hold  of  the  invisible  Hand,  of  the 
Only  Holy  and  All  Good;  —  these  are  the  features  that  have 
made  Jesus  of  Nazareth  the  dearest  and  most  sacred  image  to 
the  heart  of  so  many  ages. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Surely  He  hath  borne  our  griefs  and  carried  our  sorrows. 

—  Bible, 


62  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 

He  came,  bringing  with  Him  the  knowledge  that  God  is  a 
Being  of  infinite  goodness ;  that  the  service  required  of  man- 
kind is  not  a  service  of  form  or  ceremony,  but  a  service  of 

obedience. 

—  J.   A.  Froude. 


Other  sages  have  spoken  to  me  of  God.  But  from  whom 
could  I  have  learned  the  essence  of  Divine  perfection,  as  from 
Him,  who  was  in  a  peculiar  sense  the  Son,  representative,  and 
image  of  God  —  who  was  especially  an  incarnation  of  the  un- 
bounded love  of  the  Father?  And  from  what  other  teacher 
could  I  have  learned  to  approach  the  Supreme  Being  with  that 
filial  spirit,  which  forms  the  happiness  of  my  fellowship  with 
Him?  From  other  seers  I  might  have  heard  of  heaven;  but 
when  I  behold  in  Jesus  the  spirit  of  heaven,  dwelling  actually 
on   earth,  what  a  new  comprehension  have  I  of   that  better 

world! 

—  W.   E.  Channing. 


I  have  read  in  Plato  and  Cicero  sayings  that  are  very  wise 
and  very  beautiful;  but  I  never  read  in  either  of  them,  "Come 
unto  me,  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden." 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Whoever  would  fully  and  feelingly  understand  the  words  of 

Christ,  must  endeavor  to  conform  his  life  wholly  to  the  life  of 

Christ. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


Oh,  wonderful  teacher!  Oh,  favored  disciples!  Oh,  famous 
school  —  that  built  no  marble  halls,  and  collected  no  grand 
library,  but  turned  all  life  into  opportunity;  made  houses  and 
streets  and  seaside  and  mountain-tops,  places  of  discipline  and 
recitation  and  delight!  Oh,  blest  example  —  shining  this  day 
on  the  pages  of  history  —  our  example,  our  dream,  our  desire! 

—  y.  H.  Vincent. 


CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY.  63 

Christ's  method  is  divine.  His  words  have  the  charm  of 
antiquity  with  the  freshness  of  yesterday;  the  simplicity  of  a 
child  with  the  wisdom  of  a  God;  the  softness  of  kisses  from 
the  lip  of  love,  and  the  force  of  the  lightning  rending  the 
tower.  His  parables  are  like  groups  of  matchless  statuary; 
His  prayers  like  an  organ  peal  floating  round  the  world  and 
down  the  ages,  echoed  by  the  mountain-peaks  and  plains  into 
rich  and  varied  melody,  in  which  all  devout  hearts  find  their 
noblest  feelings  at  once  expressed,  sustained,  refined.  His 
truths  are  self-evidencing.  They  fall  into  the  soul  as  seed  into 
the  ground,  to  rest  and  germinate.  He  speaks,  and  all  nature 
and  life  become  vocal  with  theology. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Then, too,  His  patience  —  reaching  on  and  on  in  its  long-suf- 
fering amplitude,  waiting  and  never  weary,  hopeful  and  never 
despairing  of  conquering  the  soul, —  no  wonder  the  "patience 
of  Christ"  became  the  apostolic  formulary  of  moral  loveliness. 
What  a  power  was  in  it!  Here  is  a  nature  made  suspicious  by 
manifold  deceits,  stranded  on  the  shoals  of  doubt,  desponding, 
obstinate,  wedded  to  sin.  Does  the  Master  crush  it  by  imperi- 
ous authority,  exasperate  it  by  taunts,  fling  it  aside  as  a  cum- 
berer  of  the  ground  ?  Ah,  give  it  time  to  recover,  opportunities 
to  know  itself,  nurse  it  by  gentleness,  gain  its  confidence,  find 
the  secret  of  its  weakness  and  sorrow!  Do  not  despair!  It 
may  bear  fruit  next  year.  Oh,  this  infinite  patience  of  Jesus, 
how  it  rebukes  our  cynical  criticisms  and  passionate  haste! 
How  it  bids  us  take  note  of  temperaments,  troubles,  habits, 
provocations,  prejudices,  in  our  judgments  of  men  ! 

—  H.  N.  Powers. 


How  free  from  every  thing  like  art  were  the  reasonings  and 
language  of  Christ. 

—  David  Thomas. 


•34  CHRIST:   LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 

From   first  to   last,  Jesus   is  the  same;  always  the  same  — 
majestic  and  simple,  infinitely  severe  and  infinitely  gentle. 

—  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


You  never  get  to  the  end  of  Christ's  words.  There  is  some- 
thing in  them  always  behind.  They  pass  into  proverbs  —  they 
pass  into  laws  —  they  pass  into  doctrines  —  they  pass  into  con- 
solations; but  they  never  pass  away,  and,  after  all  the  use  that 
is  made  of  them,  they  are  still  not  exhausted. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Certainly,  no  revolution  that  has  ever  taken  place  in  society 

can  be  compared  to  that  which  has  been  produced  by  the  words. 

of  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Mark.  Hopkins. 


Think  of  the  majesty  of  that  moment  in  this  dying  world's 
history,  when  Jesus  Christ  declared  that  to  the  Christian  death 
was  only  a  sleep.  Outside  of  that  small  dwelling  in  Caper- 
naum, a  great  race  of  men  rushed  and  toiled  as  they  harassed 
continents  and  seas ;  mighty  events  marshaled  themselves  into 
annals  and  pageants.  What  was  inside  ?  In  one  inconspicu- 
ous chamber  of  a  now  forgotten  house,  man's  Redeemer,  unob- 
served, martyred  man's  final  enemy.     There  Immanuel  subdued 

death  forever. 

—  C.  S.  Robinson. 


What  Jesus  spoke  was  Truth;  the  way  He  spoke  was  gracious. 
He  spoke  the  truth  in  love.  God  is  love,  and  the  Son  of  God 
spoke  lovingly. 

—  Ta.aies  Hamilton. 


Christ  is  the  chief  object  proposed  to  the  sinner  in  the  New 
Testament,  The  eye  that  sweeps  round  the  whole  circle  of 
Divine  truth  must  rest  in  Him  as  the  centre. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


CHRIST:   LIFE  AND  MINISTRY.  65 

Jesus  Christ,  the  embodiment  of  truth  and  love,  has  explained 
the  Scriptures  by  fulfilling  them.  So  when  the  soul  has  passed 
into  God,  the  word  is  fulfilled  in  the  soul,  as  it  was  in  Christ- 
O  Love  !  thou  art  thyself  the  pure,  naked,  simple  truth,  which 
is  expressed,  not  by  me,  but  by  thyself,  through  me. 


In  darkness  there  is  no  choice.  It  is  light  that  enables  us  to 
see  the  difference  between  things ;  and  it  is  Christ  that  gives 
us  light. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


Christ  came  not  to  talk  about  a  beautiful  light,  but  to  be  that 
light  —  not  to  speculate  about  virtue,  but  to  be  virtue. 

—  H.  G.  Taylor. 


The  parables,  as  they  are  called,  are  the  wisdom  of  Jesus 
applied  to  the  daily  life  of  man. 

—  C.  W.  Elliott. 


They  take  inadequate  views  of  Christ's  prophetic  character, 
who  think  Jesus  came  only  to  utter  discourses,  parables,  and 
prayers.  Suppose  all  He  ever  said  to  be  found  in  the  writings 
of  Jewish  rabbis  and  heathen  philosophers.  His  great  functio?i 
would  still  be  an  orginal  one,  to  show  us  the  Father. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Christ's  miracles  were  vivid  manifestations  to  the  senses  that 
He  is  the  Saviour  of  the  body  —  and  now  as  then  the  issues  of 
life  and  death  are  in  His  hands  —  that  our  daily  existence  is  a 
perpetual  miracle.  The  extraordinary  was  simply  a  manifesta- 
tion of  God's  power  in  the  ordinary. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


All  power  is  given  unto  me  in  heaven  and  in  earth. 

5  —  Bible. 


66  CHRIST:    LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 

The  miracles  of  Christ  were  studiously  performed  in  the 
most  unostentatious  way.  He  seemed  anxious  to  veil  His 
majesty  under  the  love  with  which  they  were  wrought. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


A  large  portion  of  Christ's  miracles  of  love  were  wrought  at 
the  urgent  request  of  parents  for  their  suffering  children.  Is 
that  ear  gone  deaf  to-day  ?  Will  He  not  do  for  our  children's 
souls  what  He  did  for  the  bodies  of  the  ruler's  daughter,  and 
the  dead  youth  at  Nain  ? 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Our  Lord's  miracles  were  all  essential  parts  of  His  one  con- 
sistent life.  They  were  wrought  as  evidences  not  only  of  His 
power,  but  of  His  mercy.  They  were  throughout  moral  in 
their  character,  and  spiritual  in  the  ends  contemplated  by  them. 
They  were  in  fact  embodiments  of  His  whole  character,  exem- 
plars of  His  whole  teaching,  emblems  of  His  whole  mission. 

—  James  McCosh. 


All  Christ's  public  acts  were  consecrated  by  prayer, —  His 
baptism.  His  transfiguration.  His  miracles,  His  agony.  His 
death.  He  breathed  away  His  spirit  in  prayer.  "  His  last 
breath,"  says  Philip  Henry,  "was  praying  breath." 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


Remember  that  vision  on  the  Mount  of  Transfiguration ;  and 

let  it  be  ours,  even  in  the  glare  of  earthly  joys  and  brightnesses, 

to  lift  up  our  eyes,   like  those  Avondering  three,  and  see  no 

man  any  more,  save  Jesus  only. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christ  illustrates  the  purport  of  life  as  He  descends  from 
His  transfiguration  to  toil,  and  goes  forward  to  exchange  that 
robe  of  heavenly  brightness  for  the  crown  of  thorns. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


CHRIST:    LIP^E  AND  MINISTRY.  67 

Not  only  do  we  witness  on  the  Holy  Mount  the  installation 
of  the  royal  lawgiver,  but  of  the  great  high-priest.  It  is  a 
grand  valedictory  service  in  which  He  is  re-ordained  to  duty  — 
as  the  banners  are  blessed  before  the  army  marches  to  the  field. 
And  the  voice  speaks  from  heaven  as  a  sovereign  gives  audience 
to  a  chosen  commander,  and  cheers  him  with  the  encouragement 
of  royal  favor.  With  what  reverence,  brethren,  should  we, 
sinners,  look  upon  the  scene  !  As  we  see  Him  standing  alone 
upon  the  mountain  —  fresh  from  His  ordination  of  glory  — 
calm  and  kingly  in  His  heaven-imparted  strength  ;  and  then  as 
we  see  Him,  with  firm  step,  treading  the  dark  avenue  which, 
through  desertion,  agony,  insult,  abandonment,  terminates  in  His 
death  upon  the  cross  —  surely  our  distrust  should  vanish,  and 
in  reliance  on  such  a  champion  we  should  have  "joy  in  believ- 
ing." Surely  our  indignation  against  the  vile  sin  which  made  all 
this  suffering  necessary  should  be  roused  within  us.  Surely 
our  hearts  should  bound  with  a  fervor  of  devotion  and  grati- 
tude which  the  obedience  of  a  lifetime  can  only  inadequately 
express.  — Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


All  the  virtues  which  appeared  in  Christ  shone  brightest  in 
the  close  of  His  life,  under  the  trials  He  then  met.  Eminent 
virtue  always  shows  brightest  in  the  fire.  Pure  gold  shows  its 
purity  chiefly  in  the  furnace.  It  was  chiefly  under  those  trials 
which  Christ  endured  in  the  close  of  His  life,  that  His  love  to 
God,  His  honor  of  God's  majesty,  His  regard  to  the  honor  of 
His  law,  His  spirit  of  obedience,  His  humility,  contempt 
of  the  world.  His  patience,  meekness,  and  spirit  of  forgive- 
ness towards  men,  appeared.  Indeed,  every  thing  that  Christ 
did  to  work  out  redemption  for  us  appears  mainly  in  the 
close  of  His  life.  Here  mainly  is  His  satisfaction  for  sin,  and 
here  chiefly  is  His  merit  of  eternal  life  for  sinners,  and  here 
chiefly  appears  the  brightness  of  His  example  which  He  has 
set  us  for  imitation. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


CHRIST:   LIFE  AND  MINISTRY. 


As  Christ's  ministry  drew  to  its  close,  its  severity  and  its  gen- 
tleness both  increased;  its  severity  to  the  class  from  whom  it 
never  turned  away.  Side  by  side  through  all  His  manifesta- 
tions of  Himself,  there  were  the  two  aspects:  "He  showed 
Himself  froward  "  (if  I  may  quote  the  word)  to  the  self-right- 
eous and  the  Pharisee;  and  He  bent  with  more  than  a  woman's 
tenderness  of  yearning  love  over  the  darkness  and  sinfulness, 
which  in  its  great  darkness  dimly  knew  itself  blind,  and  in  its 
sinfulness  stretched  out  a  lame  hand  of  faith,  and  groped  after 

a  Divine  deliverer. 

— ^  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christ  wrought  out  His  perfect  obedience  as  a  man,  through 

temptation,  and  by  suffering. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


And  I  think,  dear  friends,  if  we  carried  with  us  more  dis- 
tinctly than  we  do  that  one  simple  thought  that  in  all  human 
joys,  in  all  the  apparently  self-forgetting  tenderness,  of  that 
Lord,  who  had  a  heart  for  every  sorrow,  and  an  ear  for  every 
complaint,  and  a  hand 'open  as  day  and  full  of  melting  charity 
for  every  need  —  that  in  every  moment  of  that  life  in  the  boy- 
hood, in  the  dawning  manhood,  in  the  maturity  of  His  grow- 
ing power  —  there  was  always  present  one  black  .shadow,  toward 
which  He  ever  went  straight  with  the  consent  of  His  will  and 
the  clearest  eye,  we  should  understand  something  more  of  how 
the  life  as  well  as  the  death  was  a  sacrifice  for  us  sinful  men. 

—  Alexander  M.a.cl.a.ren. 


It  was  necessary  for  the  Son  to  disappear  as  an  outward 
authority,  in  order  that  He  might  reappear  as  an  inward  prin- 
ciple of  life.  Our  salvation  is  no  longer  God  manifested  in  a 
Christ  without   us,  but   as  a  "  Christ   within  us,   the  hope   of 

glory." 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


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God's  beloved  Son,  leaving  the  echoes  of  His  cries  upon  the 
mountains  and  the  traces  of  His  weary  feet  upon  the  streets, 
shedding  His  tears  over  the  tombs  and  His  blood  upon  Gol- 
gotha, associating  His  life  with  our  homes,  and  His  corpse  with 
our  sepulchres,  shows  us  how  we,  too,  may  be  sons  in  the  hum- 
blest vale  of  life,  and  sure  of  sympathy  in  heaven  amid  the 
deepest  wrongs  and  sorrows  of  earth. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


The  study  of  every  thing  that  stands  connected  with  the 
death  of  Christ,  whether  it  be  in  the  types  of  the  ceremonial 
law,  the  predictions  of  the  prophets,  the  narratives  of  the  Gos- 
pels, the  doctrines  of  the  epistles,  or  the  sublime  vision  of  the 
Apocalypse,  this  is  the  food  of  the  soul,  the  manna  from  heaven, 
the  bread  of  life.     This  is  "''  meat  indeed"  2.x\di.  '^  drink  indeed^ 

—  John  Angel  James. 


The  whole  history  of  Israel,  its  ritual  and  its  government,  is 
explicable  only  as  it  is  typical  of  the  spiritual  Israel,  of  the  sac- 
rifice on  Calvary,  of  the  precious  blood  which  alone  can  wash 
away  sin. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


All  other  great  men  are  valued  for  their  lives;  He,  above  all, 
for  His  death,  around  which  mercy  and  truth,  righteousness 
and  peace,  God  and  man  are  reconciled;  for  the  cross  is  the 
magnet  which  sends  the  electric  current  through  the  telegraph 
between  earth  and  heaven,  and  makes  both  Testaments  thrill, 
through  the  ages  of  the  past  and  future,  with  living,  harmoni- 
ous, and  saving  truth. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Herein  is  love,  not  that  we  loved  God,  but  that  He  loved  us, 
and  sent  His  Son  to  be  the  propitiation  for  our  sins. 

—  Bible. 


70  CHRIST:   SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH. 

Other  men  have  said,  "  If  I  could  only  live,  I  would  establish 
and  perpetuate  an  empire."  This  Christ  of  Galilee  says,  "  My 
death  shall  do  it."  Other  martyrs  have  djed  in  simple  fidelity 
to  truth.  This  martyr  dies  that  He  may  make  His  truth 
mighty  over  all  hearts.  He  was  a  man;  but  was  He  only  a 
man  ? 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


It  was  in  His  parting  sorrow  —  that  Jesus  asked  His  disciples 
to  remember  Him;  and  never  was  entreaty  of  affection  an- 
swered so;  for  ever  since  hasHisname  been  breathed  in  morn- 
ing and  evening  prayers  that  none  can  count,  and  has  brought 
down  some  gift  of  sanctity  and  peace  on  the  anguish  of  bereave- 
ment, and  the  remorse  of  sin. 

—  James  Martineau. 


When  the  Father  would  give  men  the  light  of  the  knowledge 
of  His -glory,  how  does  He  proceed.^  To  what  does  He  turn 
men's  gaze  ?  Not  to  His  mighty  works;  not  to  creative  or  provi- 
dential wonders;  not  to  geological  or  astronomical  facts;  not  to 
the  data  on  which  Paley  and  Bell  and  other  admirable  writers 
build  up  their  argument  from  design;  not  to  the  still  greater 
wonder  of  mind,  but  to  "  the  face  of  Jesus  Christ,"  that  face 
that  was  more  marred  than  any  man's;  that  endured  the  ruffian 
blows;  down  which  the  blood  drops  trickled  ;  that  looked  down 
on  a  mocking  crowd  from   an  ignominious  cross. 

—  John  Hall. 


Christ's  sacrifice  stands  in  glorious  proportions  with  the  work 

to  be   done.     Nothing  else  or  less  would  suffice.     It  is  a  work 

supernatural,  transacted  in  the  plane  of  nature  ;  and  what  but 

such  a  work  could  restore  the  broken  order  of  the  soul  under 

evil  ? 

—  Horace   Bushnell. 


CHRIST:    SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH.  71 

"  Having  loved  His  own  which  were  in  the  world,  He  loved 
them  to  the  end."  Often  had  they  been  faithless  ;  and  now, 
while  addressing  them,  He  knmvs  that  they  will  all  in  a  few 
hours  forsake  Him.  Yet  He  trusts  them ;  He  commits  His 
cause  to  their  keeping.     And  we  must  love  as  He  loved. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


When  Jesus  knew  that  it  was  not  possible  for  the  cup  to  pass 

from  Hinij  with  love  to  God  He  held  it  fast,  and  with  love  to 

man  He  drank  it  all. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


As  we  look  upon  that  agony  And  those  tearful  prayers,  let  us 

not  only  look  with  thankfulness  ;  but  let  that  kneeling  Saviour 

teach  us  that  in  prayer  alone  can  we  be  forearmed  against  our 

lesser  sorrows;  that  strength  to  bear  flows  into  the  heart  that  is 

opened  in  supplication ;  and  that  a  sorrow  which  we  are  made 

able  to  endure  is  more  truly  conquered  than  a  sorrow  which  we 

avoid. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


He  planted  His  cross  in  the  midst  of  the  mad  and  roaring 
current  of  selfishness,  aggravated  to  malignity,  and  uttered  from 
it  the  mighty  cry  of  expiring  love.  And  the  waters  heard  Him, 
and  from  that  moment  they  began  to  be  refluent  about  His 
cross.  From  that  moment,  a  current  deeper  and  broader  and 
mightier  began  to  set  heavenward;  and  it  will  continue  to  be 
deeper  and  broader  and  mightier  till  its  glad  waters  shall  en- 
compass the  earth,  and  toss  themselves  as  the  ocean.  And  not 
alone  did  earth  hear  the  cry.  It  pierced  the  regions  of  im- 
mensity. Heaven  heard  it,  and  hell  heard  it,  and  the  remotest 
star  shall  hear  it,  testifying  to  the  love  of  God  in  His  unspeak- 
able gift,  and  to  the  supremacy  of  that  blessedness  of  giving 
which  could  be  reached  only  through  death  —  the  death  of  the 
cross.  —  Mark  Hopkins. 


73  CHRIST:    SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH. 

I  entreat  you  to  devote  one  solemn  hour  of  thought  to  a 
crucified  Saviour  —  a  Saviour  expiring  in  the  bitterest  agony. 
Think  of  the  cross,  the  nails,  the  open  wounds,  the  anguish  of 
His  soul.  Think  how  the  Son  of  God  became  a  man  of  sor- 
rows and  acquainted  with  grief,  that  you  might  live  forever. 
Think  as  you  lie  down  upon  your  bed  to  rest,  how  your 
Saviour  was  lifted  up  from  the  earth  to  die.  Think  amid  your 
plans  and  anticipations  of  future  gaiety,  what  the  redemption 
of  your  soul  has  cost,  and  how  the  dying  Saviour  would  wish 
you  to  act.  His  wounds  plead  that  you  will  live  for  better 
things. 

■ —  Albkrt  Barnes. 


Nothing  like  one  honest  look,  one  honest  thought  of  Christ 
upon  His  cross.  That  tells  us  how  much  He  has  been  through, 
how  much  He  endured,  how  much  He  conquered,  how  much 
God  loved  us,  who  spared  not  His  only  begotten  Son,  but 
freely  gave  Him  for  us.  Dare  we  doubt  such  a  God  ?  Dare 
we  murmur  against  such  a  God  ? 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


O,  let  us  understand  that  the  power  of  Christianity  lies  not 
in  a  hazy  indefiniteness,  not  in  shadowy  forms,  not  so  much  even 
in  definite  truths  and  doctrines,  but  in  the  truth  and  the  doc- 
trine. There  is  but  one  Christ  crucified.  All  the  gathered 
might  of  the  infinite  God  is  in  that  word. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


My  faith  would  lay  her  hand 

On  that  dear  head  of  Thine, 
While  like  a  penitent  I  stand, 

And  there  confess  my  sin. 

—  Watts. 


CHRIST:   SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH.  73 

The  last  business  of  Christ's  life  was  the  saving  of  a  poor 

penitent  thief. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


But  now,  the  sounds  of  infancy,  always  nearest  the  heart, 
and  sure  to  come  to  the  lips  in  our  deepest  emotion,  returned 
in  His  anguish ;  and  in  words  which  He  had  learned  at  His 
mother's  knee.  His  heart  uttered  its  last  wail  —  "  Eloi !  Eloi ! 
lama  sabachthani  ?  "  "  My  God  !  My  God  !  why  hast  Thou 
forsaken  me  ?  " 

—  J.  Cunningham  Geikie. 


But  no  sympathy  reached  His  convulsed  spirit.  He  was 
alone;  alone,  enduring  the  curse  for  us;  alone,  "  bearing  our 
sins  in  His  own  body  on  the  tree,"  and  exhausting  the  fierce- 
ness of  eternal  justice;  alone,  without  succor  from  man;  alone, 
without  one  strengthening  whisper  from  angel;  above  all,  alone, 
without  one  ray  from  His  Father's  countenance.  And  that 
expiring  cry,  "  My  God!  My  God!  why  hast  Thou  forsaken 
me  .''  "  was  the  bitter,  dreary,  dismal,  piercing  wail  of  a  soul 
utterly  deserted  —  wrapped,  shrouded  in  essential  unmitigated 

desolation. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


He  was  Himself  forsaken  that  none  of  His  children  might 

ever  need  to  utter  His  cry  of  loneliness. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent. 


In  agony  unknown  He  bleeds  away  His  life;  in  terrible 
throes  He  exhausts  His  soul.  "Eloi!  Eloi!  lama  sabachthani .' " 
And  then  see  !  they  pierce  His  side,  and  forthwith  runneth  out 
blood  and  water!  This  is  the  shedding  of  blood,  the  terrible 
pouring  out  of  blood,  without  which,  for  you  and  the  whole 
human  race,  there  is  no  remission. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


74  CHRIST:    SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH. 

A  moment  more,  and  all  was  over.  The  cloud  had  passed  as 
suddenly  as  it  rose.  Far  and  wide,  over  the  vanquished 
throngs  of  His  enemies,  with  a  loud  voice,  as  if  uttering  His 
shout  of  eternal  victory  before  entering  into  His  glory,  He 
cried,  "  It  is  finished  !  "  Then,  more  gently,  came  the  words, 
"  Father,  into  Thy  hands  1  commend  my  spirit."  A  moment 
more,  and  there  arose  a  great  cry,  as  of  mortal  agony  ;  the 
head  fell.     He  was  dead. 

—  T-  Cunningham  Geikie. 


In  this  awfully  stupendous  manner,  at  which  Reason  stands 
aghast,  and  Faith  herself  is  half  confounded,  was  the  grace  of 
God  to  man  at  length  manifested, 

—  Richard  Hurd. 


Grant,  O  Lord,  that  as  we  are  baptized  into  the  death  of  Thy 
blessed  Son  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  so  by  continual  mortify- 
ing our  corrupt  affections,  we  may  be  buried  with  Him  ;  and 
that  through  the  grave,  and  gate  of  death,  we  may  pass  to  our 
joyful  resurrection  ;  for  His  merits,  who  died,  and  was  buried, 
and  rose  again  for  us.  Thy  Son  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.     Amen. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


If  Socrates  died  like  a  sage,  Jesus  died  like  a  God. 

—  Rousseau. 


It  was  not  till  Jesus  had  cried,  "  It  is  finished,"  and  from  His 
riven  side  the  soldier's  spear  had  fetched  the  blood  and  water; 
it  was  not  till  then,  that  the  fountain  sealed  of  Incarnate  Love 
became  the  fountain  opened  of  Redeeming  merit,  and  that  the 
Siloah  began  to  flow,  which  ever  since  has  flowed  adown  the 
oracles  of  God. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


CHRIST:    SUFFERINGS  AND  DEATH.  75 

The  death  of  the  Son  of  God  is  a  single  and  most  perfect 
sacrifice  and  satisfaction  for  sins;  of  infinite  value  and  price, 
abundantly  sufficient  to  expiate  the  sins  of  the  whole  world. 

—  Synod  of  Dort. 


The  sufferings  and  death  of  Jesus  Christ  are  a  substitution 
for  the  endless  punishment  of  all  who  truly  believe  on  Him. 

—  Adams. 


I  have  always  considered  the  atonement  to  be  characteristic 
of  the  gospel,  as  a  system  of  religion.  Strip  it  of  that  doctrine, 
and  you  reduce  it  to  a  scheme  of  morality,  excellent  indeed, 
and  such  as  the  world  never  before  saw;  but  to  man  in  the 
present  state  of  his  faculties,  absolutely  impracticable. 

—  Thomas,  Earl  of  Kinnoul. 


By  Thine  hour  of  dire  despair; 
By  Thine  agony  of  prayer; 
By  the  cross,  the  nail,  the  thorn, 
Piercing  spear,  and  torturing  scorn; 
By  the  gloom  that  veiled  the  skies 
O'er  the  dreadful  sacrifice  ; 
Listen  to  our  humble  cry, 
Hear  our  solemn  Litany. 

—  Sir  Robert  Grant. 


The  world  cannot  bury  Christ.  The  earth  is  not  deep 
enough  for  His  tomb,  the  clouds  are  not  wide  enough  for  His 
winding-sheet;  He  ascends  into  the  heavens,  but  the  heavens 
cannot  contain  Him.  He  still  lives  —  in  the  church  which 
burns  unconsumed  with  His  love;  in  the  truth  that  reflects  His 
image  ;  in  the  hearts  which  burn  as  He  talks  with  them  by  the 
way. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


76      CHRIST:    RESURRECTION  AND  EXALTATION. 

Twice  had  the  sun  gone  down  on  the  earth,  and  all  as  yet 
was  quiet  at  the  sepulchre;  Death  held  his  sceptre  o'er  the 
Son  of  God  ;  still  and  silent  the  hours  passed  on;  the  guards 
stood  by  their  posts;  the  rays  of  midnight  moon  gleamed  on 
their  helmets  and  on  their  spears  ;  the  enemies  of  Christ  ex- 
ulted in  their  success;  the  hearts  of  His  friends  were  sunk  in 
despondency  and  sorrow;  while  the  spirits  of  glory  waited  with 
anxious  suspense  to  behold  the  event  —  wondering  at  the  depth 
of  the  ways  of  God.  At  length,  the  morning  star,  arising  in 
the  east,  announced  the  approach  of  light;  the  third  day  began 
to  dawn  on  the  world,  when  on  a  sudden  the  earth  trembled  to 
its  centre,  and  the  powers  of  heaven  were  shaken  ;  an  angel 
of  God  descended  ;  the  guards  shrunk  back  from  the  terror. 
of  his  presence,  and  fell  prostrate  on  the  ground.  His  coun- 
tenance was  like  lightning,  and  his  raiment  was  white  as 
snow ;  he  rolled  the  stone  from  the  door  of  the  sepulchre,  and 
sat  on  it.  But  who  is  this  that  cometh  from  the  tomb,  with 
dyed  garments  from  the  bed  of  death .'  He  that  is  glorious  in 
His  appearance,  walking  in  the  greatness  of  strength  ?  It  is 
thy  Prince,  O  Zion  !  Christian,  it  is  your  Lord  !  He  hath 
trodden  the  wine-press  alone ;  He  hath  stained  His  raiment 
with  blood;  but  now  as  the  first-born  from  the  womb  of  nature. 
He  meets  the  morning  of  His  resurrection.  He  arises,  a  con- 
queror from  the  grave ;  He  returns  with  blessings  from  the 
world  of  spirits  ;  He  brings  salvation  to  the  sons  of  men. 
Never  did  the  returning  sun  usher  in  a  day  so  glorious  !  It  was 
the  jubilee  of  the  universe  ! 


Step  by  step,  He  had  raised  their  conceptions  of  Him  nearer 
the  unspeakable  grandeur  of  His  true  nature  and  work.  At 
first  the  Teacher,  He  had,  after  a  time,  by  gradual  disclosures, 
revealed  Himself  as  the  Son  of  God  veiled  in  the  form  of  man; 
and,  now,  since  His  crucifixion  and  resurrection,  He  had  taught 
them  to  see  in  Him  the  Messiah,  exalted  to  immortal  and  Di- 
vine majesty,  as  the  conqueror  of  Death  and  the  Lord  of  all. 


CHRIST:    RESURRECTION  AND  EXALTATION.      77 

In  His  discourses,  His  miracles,  His  parables,  His  sufferings, 
His  resurrection,  He  gradually  raises  the  pedestal  of  His  hu- 
manity before  the  world,  but  under  a  cover,  until  the  shaft 
reaches  from  the  grave  to  the  heavens,  whenHe  lifts  the  curtain, 
and  displays  the  figure  of  a  man  on  a  throne,  for  the  worship 
of  the  universe  ;  and  clothing  His  church  with  His  own  power, 
He  authorizes  it  to  baptize  and  to  preach  remission  of  sins  in 

His  own  name. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Having  made  an  expiation  for  sins.  He  is  set  down  on  God's 

right  hand  for  ever.     There  is  no  more  that  even  Immanuel  can 

do.     This  is  Love's  extremest  effort,  God's   last  and  greatest 

gift,  God's  own  sacrifice.     Can  there  be  any  escape  for  those 

who  neglect  so  great  salvation  ? 

—  James  Hamilton. 


My  Saviour  !  fill  up  the  blurred  and  blotted  sketch  which 

my  clumsy  hand  has  drawn  of  a  Divine  life,  with  the  fullness  of 

Thy  perfect  picture.     I  feel  the  beauty  I  cannot  realize;  robe 

me  in  Thine  unutterable  purity. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Christ  whose  glory  fills  the  skies, 
Christ,  the  true,  the  only  light. 

Sun  of  Righteousness,  arise, 

Triumph  o'er  the  shades  of  night ; 

Day-spring  from  on  high,  be  near. 
Day-star  in  my  heart  appear. 


TOPLADY. 


Jesus  Christ  is  not  hurried;   He   calmly  rules  the  storm,  and 

holds  the  helm  of  this  world  in  His  hand,  and  it  will  not  drift 

away  from  the  course  designated  by  the  infinite  authority  and 

power  of  God. 

—  Bishop  Daggett. 


78  CHRIST:    KING. 


The  hoary  centuries  are  full  of  Hmi;  the  echoes  of  His 
sweet  voice  are  heard  to-day;  His  love  has  perfumed  the  past 
eighteen  hundred  years,  and  He  lives  to-day,  as  the  Head  of 
His  church;  He  lives  to-day,  the  object  of  the  warmest  adora- 
tion, the  most  passionate  love,  for  whom  millions  would  die 
this  very  hour.  Empires  have  fallen,  thrones  have  crumbled; 
but  Jesus  lives,  His  empire  extending  every  day.  His  throne 
gaining  new  trophies  of  His  grace. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


It  was  the  custom  of  the  Roman  emperors,  at  their  triumphal 
entrance,  to  cast  new  coins  among  the  multitudes;  so  doth 
Christ,  in  His  triumphal  ascension  into  heaven,  throw  the 
greatest  gifts  for  the  good  of  men  that  were  ever  given. 

—  T.  Goodwin. 


And  what  is  the  joy  of  Christ  ?  The  joy  and  delight  which 
springs  forever  in  His  great  heart,  from  feeling  that  He  is  for- 
ever doing  good;  from  loving  all,  and  living  for  all;  from  know- 
ing that  if  not  all,  yet  millions  on  millions  are  grateful  to  Him, 
and  will  be  forever. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Brethren,  it  is  not  the  thinker  who  is  the  true  king  of  men, 
as  we  sometimes  hear  it  proudly  said.  We  need  one  who  will 
not  only  show,  but  be  the  Truth;  who  will  not  only  point,  but 
open  and  be  the  Way  ;  who  will  not  only  communicate  thought, 
but  give,  because  He  is  the  Life.  Not  the  rabbi's  pulpit,  nor 
the  teacher's  desk,  still  less  the  gilded  chairs  of  earthly  mon- 
archs,  least  of  all  the  tents  of  conquerors,  are  the  throne  of  the 
true  king.     He  rules  from  the  cross. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will   draw  all   men 

unto  me. 

—  Bible. 


CHRIST:    KING.  79 


The  enthronement  of  Christ  over  the  minds  of  men  is  steadily 
going  forward.  His  kingdom  embraces  the  princes  in  the 
realm  of  mind.  It  embraces  the  nations  of  highest  civilization. 
They  are  all  beneath  the  cross.  It  is  maintained  by  simple 
authority.  Other  mental  monarchs  rule  by  logic ;  Christ's 
word'\%  law  —  it  is  satisfying  to  His  subjects.  His  truth  in  the 
hands  of  His  disciples,  like  the  bread  He  broke  upon  the  moun- 
tains, is  an  ample  supply  for  the  millions  that  gather  at  His 
table. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Yes,  we  have  throned  Him  in  our  minds  and  hearts — the 
cynosure  of  our  wandering  thoughts  —  the  monarch  of  our 
warmest  affections,  hopes,  desires.  This  we  have  done.  And 
the  more  we  meditate  upon  His  astonishing  love.  His  amazing 
sacrifice,  the  more  we  feel  that  if  we  had  a  thousand  minds, 
hearts,  souls,  we  would  crown  Him  Lord  of  all.  Living  we 
will  live  in  Him,  for  Him,  to  Him.  Dying,  we  will  clasp  Him 
in  our  arms,  and,  with  Simeon,  welcome  death  as  the  consum- 
mation of  bliss. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Christ  is  the  Head  of  all  things.  Every  thing  lies  open  before 
His  eye,  every  thing  is  sustained  by  His  power,  and  every  thing 
is  disposed  of  by  His  wisdom.  Not  a  sparrow  can  fall  to  the 
ground  without  His  notice  and  permission.  Oh,  to  see  Jesus  in 
all  things  !  Oh  to  see  every  thing  at  the  disposal  of  Jesus  ! 
Oh,  to  see  that  all  things  are  directed,  controlled,  and  over- 
ruled by  Christ  alone  !  May  this  calm  my  mind,  compose  my 
spirit,  and  produce  holy  resignation  m  my  soul !  If  Jesus  ar- 
ranges all,  sends  all,  directs  all,  overrules  all,  then  all  things 
must  work  together  for  good  to  them  that  love  God. 

—  James  Smith. 


80  CHRIST:    LEADER. 


Up  with  the  banner  of  your  new  Lord,  Jehovah  Jesus ! 
Raise  it  in  firm  decision,  with  quiet  earnestness  and  with  hum- 
ble prayer;  keep  it  with  unflinching  fortitude,  and  be  ready  to 

die  rather  than  dishonor  it. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Christ  puts  Himself  at  the  head  of  the  mystic  march  of  the 
generations;  and,  like  the  mysterious  angel  that  Joshua  saw  in 
the  plain  by  Jericho,  makes  the  lofty  claim,  "  Nay,  but  as  the 
captain  of  the  Lord's  host  am  I  come  up." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Jesus,  still  lead  on, 

Till  our  rest  be  won  I 
And  although  the  way  be  cheerless, 
We  will  follow  calm  and  fearless; 

Guide  us  by  Thy  hand 

To  our  fatherland  ! 

—  Count  Von  Zinzendorf. 


Christ  sends   His  Spirit,  not  only  to  help,  but  to  lead  us  on, 

so  that  we  build  better  than  we  know.     We  come  freely  into 

His  methods ;  we  are  made  to  carry  out  His  plan.     This  is  the 

guarantee  of  an  eternal  success. 

—  M.  B.  Riddle. 


Christ  wants  to   lead  men  by  their  love,  their  personal  love 
to  Him,  and  the  confidence  of  His  personal  love  to  them. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


From  behind   the  shadow  of   the   still   small   voice  —  more 

awful  than  tempest  or  earthquake — more  sure  and  persistent 

than   day  and  night  —  is   always   sounding  full   of  hope    and 

strength  to  the  weariest  of  us   all,   ''  Be  of  good   cheer,  I  have 

overcome  the  world." 

—  Thomas  Hughes. 


CHRIST:    SAVIOUR.  81 

We  believe  that  the  salvation  of  sinners  is  wholly  of  grace; 
through  the  mediatorial  offices  of  the  Son  of  God;  who,  by  the 
appointment  of  the  Father,  freely  took  upon  Him  our  nature, 
yet  without  sin ;  honored  the  Divine  law  by  His  personal  obe- 
dience, and  by  His  death  made  a  full  atonement  for  sins;  that 
having  risen  from  the  dead  He  is  now  enthroned  in  heaven ; 
and  uniting  in  His  wonderful  person  the  tenderest  sympathies 
with  Divine  perfections,  He  is  every  way  qualified  to  be  a 
suitable,  a  compassionate,  and  an  all-sufficient  Saviour. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


My  only  comfort  is  that  I  with  body  and  soul,  both  in  life 
and  death,  am  not  my  own,  but  belong  to  my  faithful  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ,  who  with  His  precious  blood  hath  fully  satisfied 
for  all  my  sins,  and  delivered  me  from  all  the  power  of  the 
devil;  and  so  preserves  me,  that  without  the  will  of  my  heav- 
enly Father,  not  a  hair  can  fall  from  my  head  ;  yea,  that  all 
things  must  be  subservient  to  my  salvation.  And,  therefore, 
by  His  Holy  Spirit,  He  also  assures  me  of  eternal  life,  and 
makes  me  sincerely  willing  and  ready,  henceforth  to  live  unto 
Him.  — Heidelberg  Catechism. 


You  may  be  a  dreadful  failure.  Christ  is  a  Divine  success. 
"Who  shall  lay  any  thing  to  the  charge  of  God's  elect?  It  is 
God  that  justifieth." 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Our  sins  are  debts  that  none  can  pay  but  Christ.  It  is  not 
our  tears,  but  His  blood;  it  is  not  our  sighs,  but  His  sufferings, 
that  can  testify  for  our  sins.  Christ  must  pay  all,  or  we  are 
prisoners  forever.  — Thomas  Brooks. 


Jesus  did   all  the  saving-work.     He  brought   the  cross  to 
our  level.     Get  saved  by  looking  to  Him;  and  then  live  to  God. 
6  — W.  P.  Mackay. 


82  CHRIST:   SAVIOUR. 

Because  many  who  are  called  by  the  gospel  do  not  repent 
nor  believe  in  Christ,  but  perish  in  unbelief,  this  does  not  arise 
from  defect  or  insufficiency  of  the  sacrifice  offered  by  Christ, 
but  from  their  own  fault. 

—  Synod  of  Dort. 


You  have  "  done  all  you  could  "  to   save  yourself;  and  yet 

you  have    accomplished    nothing.     Fly,   then,  to  Christ,  —  to 

Christ,  just    as  you  arc,  just   as   unworthy  —  to    Christ    now, 

"while  it  is  called  to-day."     Be  assured  you  are  welcomed  to 

all  His  benefits. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


The  compassion  of  Christ  inclines  Him  to  save  sinners,  — 
the  power  of  Christ  enables  Him  to  save  sinners,  —  and  the 
promise  of  Christ  binds  Him  to  save  sinners. 

A  guilty,  weak,  and  helpless  worm, 

On  Thy  kind  arms  I  fall ; 
Be  Thou  my  Strength  and  Righteousness, 

My  Saviour  and  my  All. 

—  Watts. 


Grieve  not  the  Christ  of  God,  who  redeems  us ;  and  remem- 
ber that  we  grieve  Him  most  when  we  will  not  let  Him  pour 
His  love  upon  us,  but  turn  a  sullen,  unresponsive  unbelief 
towards  His  pleading  grace,  as  some  glacier  shuts  out  the  sun- 
shine from  the  mountain-side  with  its  thick-ribbed  ice. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


On  Thee  alone  my  hope  relies. 

Beneath  Thy  cross  I  fall ; 
My  Lord  !  my  Life  !  my  Sacrifice  ! 

My  Saviour  !  and  my  All! 

—  Anne  Steele. 


CHRIST:   SAVIOUR.  83 

I  feel  my  disease,  and  I  feel  that  my  want  of  alarm  and 
lively  affecting  conviction  forms  its  most  obstinate  ingredient ; 
I  try  to  stir  up  the  emotion,  and  feel  myself  harassed  and  dis- 
tressed at  the  impotency  of  my  own  meditations.  But  why 
linger  without  the  threshold  in  the  face  of  a  warm  and  urgent 
invitation?  "Come  unto  me."  Do  not  think  it  is  your  office 
to  heal  one  part  of  the  disease,  and  Christ's  to  heal  the  re- 
mainder. 

—  Thomas  Chalmers. 


Brethren,  is  not  this  the  Saviour  that  you  need  ?  one  who 
can  save  you  from  the  utmost  depths  of  depravity,  in  the  ut- 
most corner  of  the  earth,  on  the  utmost  inch  of  time  ?  One 
who  can  save  you  amidst  the  utmost  urgency  of  fierce  tempta- 
tions, and  who  in  the  uttermost  extreme  of  exhausted  nature, 
when  heart  and  flesh  do  faint  and  fail,  completes  the  work,  and 
seals  the  salvation  for  evermore  ? 

—  James  Hamilton. 


No  glory  of  the  Eternal  One  is  higher  than  this,  "  Mighty 
TO  save;"  no  name  of  God  is  more  adorable  than  that  of 
"Saviour;"  noplace  among  the  servants  of  God  can  be  so 
glorious  as  that  of  an  instrument  of  salvation. 

—  William  Arthur. 


As  this  brook  not  only  washes  off  impurities,  but  overwhelms 
them,  so  that  they  can  no  longer  be  found,  even  so  Thy  Divine 
mercy,  and  the  stream  of  my  Saviour's  blood,  not  only  purge 
away,  but  extinguish  my  sins,  sweeping  them  into  the  depths  of 
the  sea,  where  through  all  eternity  they  shall  be  remembered 
no  more.  — Christian  Scriver. 


Bear  in  mind,  it  was  the  ark  that  saved  Noah;  it  was  not  his 
righteousness;  it  was  not  his  feelings;  it  was  not  his  prayers. 
It  was  the  ark  that  saved  him. 


84  CHRIST:    SAVIOUR. 


You  have  only  to  cast  your  life-long  guilt,  your  ungodliness, 
your  evil  thoughts  and  wicked  words,  your  sinful  soul  itself, 
into  this  crime-canceling,  sin-annihilating,  soul-cleansing  Foun- 
tain, in  order  to  obliterate  from  God's  creation  your  foul  trans- 
gressions, and  yet  leave  the  Divine  perfection  fair  as  ever. 
The  sin  which  a  Saviour's  blood  dissolves  is  the  only  sin  which, 
after  being  once  committed, is  totally  extinguished. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Rest,  weary  soul  1 
The  penalty  is  borne,  the  ransom  paid. 
For  all  thy  sins  full  satisfaction  made; 
Strive  not  to  do  thyself  what  Christ  has  done. 
Claim  the  free  gift,  and  make  the  joy  thine  own; 
No  more  by  pangs  of  guilt  and  fear  distressed. 

Rest,  sweetly  rest. 

—  Jane  Borthwick. 


Go  to  the  family  where  darkness  and  suspicion  and  jealousy 
and  disorder  reign,  and  if  they  will  but  receive  Christ,  mark 
how  light  and  confidence  and  order  and  peace  spring  up.  Go 
to  the  regions  of  superstition  and  idolatry,  and  see  what  trans- 
formations are  effected  by  Jesus. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Never  trample  on  any  soul  though  it  may  be  lying  in  the 
veriest  mire;  for  that  last  spark  of  self-respect  is  its  only  hope, 
its  only  chance;  the  last  seed  of  a  new  and  better  life:  —  the 
voice  of  God  that  whispers  to  it:  "  You  are  not  what  you  ought 
to  be,  and  you  are  not  what  you  can  be.  You  are  still  God's 
child,  still  an  immortal  soul.  You  may  rise  yet,  and  fight  a 
good  fight  yet,  and  be  a  man  once  more,  after  the  likeness  of 
God  who  made  you,  and  Christ  whb  died  for  you!  " 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


CHRIST:    SAVIOUR.  85 

Christ's  voice  sounds  now  for  each  of  us  in  loving  invitation; 
and  dead  in  sin  and  hardness  of  heart  though  we  be,  we  can 
listen  and  live.  Christ  Himself,  my  brother,  sows  the  seed 
now.     Do  you  take  care  that  it  falls  not  on,  but  in,  your  souls. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  a  man  begins  to  apprehend  the  first  approach  of  grace, 
pardon,  and  mercy  by  Jesus  Christ  to  his  soul;  when  he  is 
convinced  of  his  utter  unworthiness  and  desert  of  hell,  and  can 
never  expect  any  thing  from  a  just  and  holy  God  but  damna- 
tion, how  do  the  first  dawnings  of  mercy  melt  and  humble  him! 

—  John  Flavel. 


Compassionate  Saviour  !  We  welcome  Thee  to  our  world, 
We  welcome  Thee  to  our  hearts.  We  bless  Thee  for  the  Di- 
vine goodness  Thou  hast  brought  from  heaven;  for  the  souls 
Thou  hast  warmed  with  love  to  man,  and  lifted  up  in  love  to 
God;  for  the  efforts  of  divine  philanthropy  which  Thou  hast 
inspired;  and  for  that  hope  of  a  pure  celestial  life,  through 

which  Thy  disciples  triumph  over  death. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Happy  those  who  are  able  in  truth  to   say,  "  My  Lord  and 

my  God  !  "     Here   is   the   true  bond  of  union.     Here  is  the 

noblest    inspiration    of  life.     Strength  for  work.     Comfort  in 

trouble.     Hope   in  death.     Here  is  what  gives  eternity  itself 

its  chief  interest  and  joy.     There  we  shall  behold  the  King  in 

His  beauty.     And  when  we  shall  see  Him  as  He  is,  and  shall 

be  like  Him,  with  what  ecstasy  of  love  and  gratitude  and  joy 

shall  we  cry,  "  My  Lord  and  my  God  !  " 

—  William  Forsythe. 


Jesus  is  the  true  manifestation  of  God,  and  He  is  manifested 
to  be  the  regenerating  power  of  a  divine  life. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


86  CHRIST:   SAVIOUR. 

O  Thou  Lamb  of  God  that  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world, 
what  Thou  bearest  in  Thy  blessed  hands  and  feet  I  cannot 
bear;  take  it  all  away.  Hide  me  in  the  depths  of  Thy  suffer- 
ing love,  mold  me  to  the  image  of  Thy  divine  passion. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Christ  is  the  great  Burden  bearer  —  the  Lamb  of  God  who 
beareth  the  sin  of  the  world;  but  in  order  to  enjoy  the  benefit 
of  His  interposition,  I  must  distinctly  and  for  myself  take 
advantage  of  it.  Conscious  of  my  lost  estate,  I  must  seek  a 
personal  share  in  the  common  salvation. 

—  James  Hamilton.  . 


Remember  Thy  pure  word  of  grace, — 

Remember  Calvary; 
Remember  all  Thy  dying  groans. 

And  then  remember  me. 

—  Burnham. 


He  who  thinks  he  hath  no  need  of  Christ,  hath  too  high 
thoughts  of  himself.  He  who  thinks  Christ  cannot  help  him, 
hath  too  low  thoughts  of  Christ. 

—  J.  M.  Mason, 


There  is  truth  in  Jesus  which  is  terrible,  as  well  as  truth 
that  is  soothing;  terrible,  for  He  shall  be  Judge  as  well  as 
Saviour;  and  ye  cannot  face  Him,  ye  cannot  stand  before  Him, 
unless  ye  now  give  ear  to  His  invitation. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  would  have  the  whole  world  to  know, 
that  though  He  pardons  sin,  He  will  not  protect  it. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


CHRIST:    SAVIOUR.  87 

He  in  whose  heart  the  law  was,  and  who  alone  of  all  man- 
kind was  content  to  do  it,  His  sacrifice  alone  can  be  the  sac- 
rifice all-sufficient  in  the  Father's  sight  as  the  proper  sacrifice 
of  humanity;  He  who  through  the  Eternal  Spirit  offered  Him- 
self without  spot  to  God,  He  alone  can  give  the  Spirit  which 
enables  us  to  present  our  bodies  a  living  sacrifice,  holy  and 
acceptable  to  God.     He  is  the  only  High-Priest  of  the  universe. 

— -F.  W.  Robertson. 


With  guilt's  defilement  stained,  without,  within. 
How  may  I  hope  Thy  cleansing  grace  to  win  ? 
Because  Thou  saidst,  "  I  have  forgiven  thy  sin.'" 

—  Margaret  J.  Preston. 


There  is  more  of  power  to  sanctify,  elevate,  strengthen,  and 

cheer   in  the  word  Jesus    (Jehovah-Saviour)    than  in  all  the 

utterances  of  man  since  the  world  began. 

—  Charles  Hodge. 


The  little  stone  by  the  road-side  receives  dust  from  every 
passing  wind.  The  shower  has  often  cleansed  it,  but  it  has 
always  become  again  soiled.  Another  stone  of  the  same  lustre 
lies  near  by,  but  within  the  brook.  It  is  perpetually  cleansed, 
and  kept  clean  by  the  flowing  waters.  Clouds  of  dust  may 
pass  over  it,  but  they  do  not  reach  it,  and  it  always  reflects  the 
clear  rays  of  the  sun.  All  its  cleansing,  all  its  purity  is  in  the 
stream  not  in  itself. 


Now  it  is  the  blood  of  Jesus  which  saves,  and  it  is  the  same 
blood  which  cleanses  and  sanctifies  ;  and  as  we  had  to  come  to 
Jesus  to  be  plunged  into  the  fountain,  so  we  have  to  abide  in 
Jesus  by  fellowship,  to  grow  up  into  Christlikeness. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


The  blood  of   Jesus  Christ  His  Son  cleanseth  us  from  all  sin. 


CHRIST:   ADVOCATE. 


Beloved,  you  that  have  faith  in  the  fountain,  frequent  it. 
Beware  of  two  errors  which  are  very  natural  and  very  disas- 
trous; beware  of  thinking  any  sin  too  great  for  it;  beware  of 
thinking  any  sin  too  small, 

— -James  Hamilton. 


Never  be  afraid  to  bring  the  transcendent  mysteries  of  our 
faith,  Christ's  life  and  death  and  resurrection,  to  the  help  of 
the  humblest  and  commonest  of  human  wants. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Reader,  if  Christ  is  yours,  and  you  are  Christ's,  is  there  any 
thing  on  which  you  may  more  confidently  repose  than  that 
Jesus  is  making  continual  intercession  for  you,  ever  displaying 
the  merits  of  His  cross  and  precious  blood,  not  only  for  the 
church  at  large,  but  for  thee,  even  for  sinful  thee  ? 

G.   W.  MVLNE. 


Christ  by  His  intercession   is  able  to  save  thee  beyond  the 
horizon  and  largest  compass  of  thy  thoughts,  even  to  the  utmost. 


In  danger  Christ  lashes  us  to  Himself,  as  Alpine   guides  do 
when  there  is  perilous  ice  to  get  over. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Guide  Thou  my  hand  within  that  hand  of  Thine  — 
Thy  wounded  hand  !  ■ —  until  its  tremblings  take 
Strength  from  Thy  touch. 

—  Dora  Greenwell. 


A  man  may  go  to  heaven  without  health,  without  riches, 
without  honors,  without  learning,  without  friends;  but  he  can 
never  go  there  without  Christ. 

—  John  Dyer. 


CHRIST:   GUIDE.  89 


Be  sure  that  Christ  is  not  behind  you,  but  before,  calling 
and  drawing  you  on.  This  is  the  liberty,  the  beautiful  liberty 
of  Christ.  Claim  your  glorious  privilege  in  the  name  of  a  dis- 
ciple ;  be  no  more  a  servant,  when  Christ  will   own   you  as  a 

friend. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Jesus  does  not  drive  His  followers  on  before,  as  a  herd  of 
unwilling  disciples,  but  goes  before  Himself,  leading  them  into 
paths  that  He  has  trod,  and  dangers  He  has  met,  and  sacri- 
fices He  has  borne  Himself,  calling  them  after  Him  and  to  be 

only  followers. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Jesus  has  never  slept  for  an  hour  while  one  of  His  disciples 

watched  and  prayed  in  agony. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


Who  art  Thou,  Lord,  and  why  to  me  so  wondrous  kind  ? 

Quickly  the  voice  replies, 
"I  am  the  Shepherd,  who  my  straying  lamb  would  find." 

—  Emma  Campbell. 


Lord,  what  am  I,  that,  with  unceasing  care, 
Thou  didst  seek  after  me, —  that  Thou  didst  wait, 
Wet  with  unhealthy  dews,  before  my  gate, 
And  pass  the  gloomy  nights  of  winter  there  ? 

—  Lope  de  Vega. 


As  a  child  walking  over  a  slippery  and  dangerous  path  cries 
out,  "  Father,  I  am  falling  !  "  and  has  but  a  moment  to  catch 
his  father's  hand,  so  every  believer  sees  hours  when  only  the 
hand  of  Jesus  comes  between  him  and  the  abysses  of  destruc- 
tion. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


90  CHRIST:   WAY,  TRUTH.  LIGHT. 

Sun  of  my  soul,  Thou  Saviour  dear, 
It  is  not  night  if  Thou  be  near ; 
Oh,  may  no  earth-born  cloud  arise 
To  hide  Thee   from  Thy  servant's  eyes. 

—  John  Keble. 


If  you  are  really   anxious  to  learn   the  way  to   God,  He  has 

not  left  Himself  without  a  witness,  nor  you  without  a  teacher. 

Go  to  the  recorded   Christ,  and  look  at  that  history;  listen   to 

those  words  which   survive  in   the  Gospels.     And   go  to   the 

living  Christ,   to    Him    who  has   said,  "lam   the  Light  of  the 

world,  he   that  followeth   me  shall  not   walk  in   darkness,  but 

shall  have  the  light  of  life."     And  dim  as  may  be  your  outset 

—  more  of  night  than  morning  in  your   twilight,  as  you  follow 

on  you  shall  know  the   Lord,  and   with    the   light  that   radiates 

from  Himself,  your  path  will  shine  brighter  and  brighter  unto 

the  perfect  day. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Unless  you  live  in  Christ,  you  are  dead  to  God. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


Christ  is   kuoiun   only  by  them   that  receive   Him  into  their 

love,  their  faith,  their  deep  want;  known  only  as  He  is  enshrined 

within,  felt  as  a  Divine  force,  breathed  in  the  inspirations  of  the 

secret  life. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Let  the  word   of  Christ  dwell  in  you  richly.     In  its  doctrinal 

largeness  let  it  inhabit  your  convictions,  and  in  its  Divine  lov- 

ingness   let   it  be  infused  into  your  spirit,  and  let  its  lifesome 

energy  inspire  your  character. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


No  man  cometh  unto  the  Father,  but  by  me. 

—  Bible. 


CHRIST:    PROPHET.  91 


Let  the  Bible  itself  dwell  in  you  —  Christ's  own  word  in 
Christ's  own  tone  —  the  truth  as  it  was  in  Jesus  —  truth  dis- 
solved in  love,  and  redolent  of  sanctity. 

—  James  Haimilton. 


In  Christ's  word  there  is  both  Christ's  doctrine  and  Christ's 
heart, —  the  fact  which  He  announces,  and  the  feeling  with 
which  He  proclaims  it;  and  in  order  to  be  really  Biblical,  in 
order  to  be  completely  Christian,  we  must  unite  the  two.  If  a 
man  wants  either,  just  to  that  extent  Christ's  word  does  not 
dwell  in  him.  —  James  Hamilton. 

Thus  the  word  reveals  the  Divine  Essence;  His  incarnation 
makes  that  Life,  that  Love,  that  Light,  which  is  eternally  resi- 
dent in  God  obvious  to  souls  that  steadily  contemplate  Him- 
self. These  terms  Life,  Love,  Light  —  so  abstract,  so  simple, 
so  suggestive — meet  in  God;  but  they  meet  also  in  Jesus 
Christ.  They  do  not  only  make  Him  the  centre  of  a  philoso- 
phy; they  belong  to  the  mystic  language  of  faith  more  truly 
than  to  the  abstract  terminalogy  of  speculative  thought.  They 
draw  hearts  to  Jesus;  they  invest  Him  with  a  higher  than  any 
intellectual  beauty. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 


What  do  we  know  about  the  world  unseen  ?  What  reason- 
ings, what  curiosity,  what  misgivings  there  have  been  concern- 
ing that  impenetrable  mystery  !  Out  of  this  mystery  and  vague- 
ness and  vastness  comes  the  human  form  of  the  Divine  Re- 
deemer. He  assures  us  that  there  is  an  unmixed  and  endless 
life,  and  that  all  we  have  to  do  to  secure  it  is,  to  trust  ourselves 
to  Him  who  came  to  declare  it  and  to  confer  it. 

—  William  Adams. 


Jesus    Christ   hath    brought    life    and    immortality    to    light 
through  the  gospel. 


93  CHRIST'S  LOVE. 


The  Divine  Christ  has  died  on  the  cross  a  victim  for  the  sins 
of  the  world;  what  is  He  doing  now  ?  Did  His  redemptive 
love  exhaust  itself  in  the  days  of  His  flesh  ?  The  past  has  been 
forgiven;  but  has  any  provision  been  made  for  the  future? 
Have  we  been  reconciled  to  God  by  the  death  of  His  Son,  but 
is  there  no  salvation  through  His  risen  life  ? 

H,  P.   LiDDON. 


No  friend  sympathizes  so  tenderly  with  his  friend  in  affliction 

as  does  Jesus.     "  In  all  our  afflictions,  He  is  afflicted."  He  feels 

all  our  sorrows,  wants,  and  burdens  as  His  own.     Whence  it  is 

that  the  sufferings   of    believers  are    called  the  sufferings  of 

Christ. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Truth  is  a  rock,  and  on  that  rock  faith  plants  its  foot,  and 
feels  secure.  But  even  on  the  rock  you  cannot  live  long  without 
an  atmosphere,  and  the  believer's  atmosphere  is  love.  That  at- 
mosphere, is  viewless,  invisible,  often  forgotten;  still  it  is  real, 
and  it  is  vital.  "  The  words  that  I  speak  are  spirit,"  says  the 
Saviour.  Over  and  above  the  resting  place  which  weary  spirits 
have  found  at  His  feet,  which  guilty  consciences  have  found 
in  His  arms,  there  is  an  afflatus  gone  forth  from  those  words  of 
His,  which  to  inhale  and  be  surrounded  with  is  like  entering 

heaven's  vestibule. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Rejoice  in  Christ  Jesus,  for  in  Him  you  are  complete.  His 
righteousness  is  over  you,  His  strong  arm  is  around  you;  and 
he  who  puts  his  soul  in  Christ's  keeping  shall  never  perish  nor 
come  into  condemnation.  This  is  a  safe  place  to  rest  in. 
"  Who  shall  separate  us  from  the  love  of  Christ  ?  " 

—  James  Hamilton. 

The  love  of  Christ  constraineth  us. 


CHRIST'S  LOVE.  93 


Yes,  for  me,  for  me  He  careth 

With  a  brother's  tender  care; 
Yes,  with  me,  with  me  He  shareth 

Every  burden,  every  fear. 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 


My  desire  is  that  my  Lord  would  give  me  broader  and  deeper 
thoughts,  to  feed  myself  with  wondering  at  His  love. 

—  Rutherford. 


I  love  to  think  of  Him  in  the  world  of  light  to-day,  my 
brother;  mine  though  angels  bow  before  Him,  and  archangels 
veil  their  faces;  mine  though  I  am  very  far  from  heaven's  holi- 
ness and  heaven's  joy;  yet  He  is  my  brother,  and  every  beat- 
ing of  His  heart  is  a  brother's  love  for  me,  and  though  high 
and  lifted  up,H'sarm,  a  brother's,  is  around  me,  and  will  keep  me 
and  uphold  me,  until  He  gives  me  a  brother's  welcome  to  His 
and  my  home  in  the  better  land. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


He  is  not  affected  by  our  mutability;  our  changes  do  not 
alter  Him.  When  we  are  restless.  He  remains  serene  and  calm; 
when  we  are  low,  selfish,  mean  or  dispirited.  He  is  still  the  un- 
alterable I  AIM,  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever,  in 
whom  is  no  variableness,  neither  shadow  of  turning.  What 
God  is  in  Himself,  not  what  we  may  chance  to  feel  Him  in  this 
or  that  moment  to  be,  that  is  our  hope.  My  soul,  "hope  thou 
///  God." 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


In  our  fluctuations  of  feeling,  it  is  well  to  remember  that 
Jesus  admits  no  change  in  His  affections;  your  heart  is  not  the 
compass  Jesus  saileth  by. 

—  Rutherford. 


H  CHRIST'S  LOVE. 


Jesus  lives  !  the  same  comforting,  helping,  instructing,  loving 
Elder  Brother,  as  when  John  leaned  on  His  bosom,  as  when 
He  lifted  Peter  up  from  the  waves,  as  when  He  dried  Mary's 
tears  with  His,  "Thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee."  Jesus  lives! 
the  same  almighty  Saviour,  Guide,  Intercessor,  as  when  He 
ascended  to  glory  with  the  broken  fetters  of  sin  and  death  in 
His  pierced  hands.  — A.  E.  Kittredge. 


To  multitudes  of  sufferers  on  beds  of  pain  and  languishing, 
Jesus  has  been  the  great  physician  to-day;  in  many  a  weeping 
circle  around  precious  dust,  He  has  been  the  Divine  com- 
forter, and  the  tears  have  almost  ceased  to  flow  as  this  Jesus 
has  touched  the  bier.  Dying  lips  have  whispered  His  name,. 
and  the  valley  of  the  shadow  has  been  illumined  as  with  the 
glory  from  the  celestial  shores. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


Thou  our  throbbing  flesh  hast  worn; 
Thou  our  mortal  griefs  hast  borne; 
Thou  hast  shed  the  human  tear; 
Jesus,  Son  of  Mary,  hear  ! 

H.   H.   MiLLMAN. 


Lord  Jesus,  engrave  Thou  Thy  name  with  Thine  own  finger 
upon  my  heart,  that  it  may  remain  closed  to  wordly  joy  and 
worldly  pleasure,  self-interest,  fading  honor,  and  low  revenge, 
and  open  only  to  Thee. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


When  I  stand  before  the  throne. 
Dressed  in  beauty  not  my  own. 
When  I  see  Thee  as  Thou  art. 
Love  Thee  with  unsinning  heart, 
Then,  Lord,  shall  I  fully  know  — 
Not  till  then  —  how  much  I  owe. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


CHRIST'S  FULLNESS.  95 

All  is  loss  that  comes  between  us  and  Christ. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


What  will  you  do  with  Jesus  ?  Do  with  Him  did  I  say  ?  O 
what,  what  will  you  do  without  Him  ?  What,  when  afifliction 
and  ahguish  shall  come  upon  yo*u  ?  what,  when  closing  your 
eyelids  in  death  ?  what,  when  appearing  before  the  awful  judg- 
ment-seat ? 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Every  day  we  may  see  some  new  thing  in  Christ.     His  love 

hath  neither  brim  nor  bottom. 

—  Rutherford. 


All  we  want  in  Christ,  we  shall  find   in   Christ.     If  we  want 

little,  we  shall  find  little.   If  w^e  want  much,  we  shall  find  much; 

but  if  in  utter  helplessness  we  cast  our  all   on  Christ,   He  will 

be  to  us  the  whole  treasury  of  God. 

—  Bishop  Whipple. 


He  is  wisdom  for  your  ignorance,  strength  for  your  weak- 
ness, righteousness  for  your  guilt,  sanctification  for  your  cor- 
ruption, redemption  from  all  the  thralldom  of  your  apostasy. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


What  then.?     For  all  my  sins.  His  pardoning  grace; 

For  all  my  wants  and  woes.  His  loving-kindness; 
For  darkest  shades,  the  shining  of  God's  face; 

And  Christ's  own  hand  to  lead  me  in  my  blindness. 


When  Caesar  gave  one  a  great  reward,  "This,"  said  he,  "is 
too  great  a  gift  for  me  to  receive;  "  but  said  Caesar,  "  It  is  not 
too  great  a  gift  for  me  to  give. "  So,  though  the  least  gift  that 
Christ  gives,  in  one  sense,  is  too  much  for  us  to  receive,  yet  the 
greatest  gifts  are  not  too  great  for  Christ  to  give. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


96  CHRIST'S  PRESENCE. 

There  is  not  a  moral  evil  which  has  not  its  infallible  anti- 
dote, nor  any  moral  virtue  which  has  not  its  spring  and  suste- 
nance in  Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified.  To  apprehend  Him 
with  every  faculty  of  the  mind,  and  with  every  affection  of  the 
heart,  and  to  grow  daily  in  that  apprehension,  is  to  emerge 
from  every  thing  that  enthralls,  to  surmount  all  that  can  con- 
taminate. —  Alexander  Knox. 


If  we  knew  all  our  need,  what  a  large  want  book  we  should 
require !  How  comforting  to  know  that  Jesus  has  a  supply 
book  which  exactly  meets  our  want  book. 


We  want  the  vision  of  a  calmer  and  simpler  beauty,  to  tran^ 
quillize  us  in  the  midst  of  artificial  tastes  —  we  want  the 
draught  of  a  pure  spring  to  cool  the  flame  of  our  excited  life; 
we  want,  in  other  words,  the  spirit  of  the  life  of  Christ,  simple, 
natural,  with  power  to  soothe  and  calm  the  feelings  which  it 
rouses;  the  fullness  of  the  spirit  which  can  never  intoxicate. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Now  and  always  as  in  that  morning  twilight  on  the  Galilean 
lake  Christ  comes  to  men.  Everywhere  He  is  present,  every- 
where revealing  Himself.  Now,  as  then,  our  eyes  are  holden 
by  our  own  fault,  so  that  we  recognize  not  the  merciful  Pres- 
ence which  is  all  around  us.  Now,  as  then,  it  is  they  who  are 
nearest  to  Christ  by  love  who  see  Him  first. 


Still  Jesus  joins  Himself  to  us;   still   He   walks  with  us;  still 

He  instructs  us,  speaking  to  us  by  His  word,  His  providences, 

His  Spirit;  still  He  seeks  to  enter  into  our   sorrows  and   trials, 

and  to  console  and  cheer  us.     But  we  know  Him  not.     Our 

eyes  are  holden  by  unbelief.     We  do  not  press  Him  to  abide 

with  us.     Hence   He  is  grieved,  and  we  are  left  alone  in  the 

night. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


CHRIST'S  PRESENCE.  97 

"  Lo  !  I  am  with  you  alway,  even  to  the  end  of  the  world," 
is  not  an  idle  —  not  an  unfulfilled  promise.  He  is  not  with  us 
merely  as  a  thought,  but  as  a  life.  He  gathers  us  up  into  His 
own  being.  He  floods  us  with  it.  There  is  inspiration  here, 
certainty  for  any  duty,  for  any  endurance.  The  faith,  Christ 
with  me,  can  make  the  poorest  and  the  hardest  life  luminous, 
joyous,  glorious.  — Wayland  Hoyt. 

One  thing  alone  my  heart  requires, —  one  gleam  of  living 
light  amid  the  ashes  and  the  gloom;  that  into  my  cell  of  humili- 
ation the  flood  of  Divine  pity  should  break,  and  keep  aglow  the 
openings  of  eternal  hope,  and  sustain  the  hidden  strength  of  an 
everlasting  love. 

—  James  Martineau. 


It  is  when  we  unbosom  ourselves  to  Him,  and  confide  to 
Him  all  our  cares  and  sorrows  and  temptations,  that  He  walks 
with  us,  and  abides  with  us,  and  opens  to  us  the  Scriptures 
concerning  Himself — His  dignity,  His  suitableness.  His  love- 
liness, His  truth.  His  tenderness.  His  faithfulness,  revealing 
Himself  in  us;  causing  our  hearts  to  burn  within  us  —  to  burn 
with  love,  gratitude,  devotion,  courage,  joy  —  to  burn  with  a 
celestial  fire,  which  consumes  all  selfishness  and  sin,  and  glows, 
a  pure,  perennial  flame,  upon  pure, living  altars. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


When  the  storms  of  trial  lower. 
When  I  feel  temptation's  power, 
In  the  last  and  darkest  hour, 
Jesus,  Saviour,  be  Thou  nigh. 


I  find  my  Lord  Jesus  cometh  not  in  the  precise  way  that  I 
lay  wait  for  Him.  He  hath  a  manner  of  His  own.  Oh,  how 
high  are  His  ways  above  my  ways ! 

7  — Rutherford. 


98  CHRIST:    BURDEN  BEARER. 

Blessed  are  they  who,  in  the  cahii  moments  of  retirement,  of 
worship,  of  prayer,  of  silent  waiting,  have  found  that  to  "  the 
weary  and  heavy  laden  "  Christ  can  indeed  give  rest;  that  com- 
pared with  the  heavy  bondage  of  the  world  or  the  exactions  of 
human  systems,  His  yoke  indeed  is  easy,   and  His   burden  is 

light. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


O  most  grateful  burden,  which  comforts  them  that  carry  it ! 
The  burdens  of  earthly  masters  gradually  wear  out  the  strength 
of  those  who  carry  them;  but  the  burden  of  Christ  assists  the 
bearers  of  it,  because  we  carry  not  grace,  but  grace  us, 

—  Chrysostom. - 


Take  Christ  in  with  you  under  your  yoke,  and  let  patience 
have  her  perfect  work. 

—  Rutherford. 


"  My  burden  is  light,"  said  the  blessed   Redeemer,  a  light 

burden  indeed,   which  carries   him    that    bears    it.       I  have 

looked  through  all  nature  for  a  resemblance  of  this,  and  seem 

to  find  a  shadow  of  it  in  the  wings  of  a  bird,  which  are  indeed 

borne  by  the  creature,   and    yet   support    her    flight    towards 

heaven. 

—  St.  Bernard. 


The  wayfaring  man,  Christ  Jesus,  has  helped  many  and 
many  a  tired  traveler  home  with  burdens  quite  as  heavy  as 
yours.  Often  and  often  He  goes  up  and  down  this  thorough- 
fare of  life  in  search  of  just  such  overladen  pilgrims;  and  His 
voice  is  sounding  forth  above  all  the  babble  of  the  busy  tongues 
and  the  clatter  of  the  busy  wheels,  saying,  —  "Come  unto  me, 
all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  give  you  rest." 

—  W.  Gladden. 


CHRIST:    BURDEN  BEARER.  .  99 

Dear  Lord  !  in  all  our  loneliest  pains 

Thou  hast  the  largest  share, 
And  that  which  is  unbearable 

'Tis  Thine,  not  ours  to  bear. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


We  are  weary  and  heavy  laden,  and  our  heavenly  Father 
offers  to  carry  us  and  our  afi'airs  in  His  own  everlasting  arms. 
And  so  far  as  the  weariness  is  concerned,  we  consent;  we  con- 
sent to  be  carried  and  find  rest  to  our  souls.  But  "  heavy  laden," 
—  no,  we  cannot  part  with  the  heavy  load.  This  responsibility, 
this  nervousness  about  the  absent,  this  household  worry,  this 
mercantile  venture,  this  literary  experiment,  this  invalid  friend, 
we  cannot  transfer  to  Him  wlio  says,  "  Cast  thy  burden  on  the 
Lord,"  but  even  our  bleared  and  sleepy  eyes  we  open  from 
time  to  time  to  see  that  it  is  still  there,  and  (  "  O  fools  and  slow 
of  heart  I  "  )  when  we  can  guard  it  no  longer,  the  relaxing  arms 
are  still  in  attitude  as  if  they  enclasped  it,  all  unconscious  that 
it  is  now  better  cared  for  elsewhere. 

—  James  Haimilton. 

I  see  that  I  have  too  much  confined  my  thoughts  to  God, 
and  that  I  ought  to  go  directly  to  the  Saviour's  arms,  and  that 
I  ought  to  believe,  abominable  as  my  sins  have  been,  if  they 
have  once  been  pardoned,  they  form  no  partition  between  me 
and  the  heart  of  Christ. 

—  E.  D.  Griffin. 


Then  Jesus  spoke:  "  Bring  here  thy  burden, 

And  find  in  me  a  full  release; 
Bring  all  thy  sorrows,  all  thy  longings, 
And  take  instead  my  perfect  peace. 
Trying  to  bear  thy  cross  alone  !  — 
Child,  the  mistake  is  all  thine  own." 

—  Anna  Warner. 


100        .  CHRIST:   REFUGE. 

Brethren,  whatever  the  temptation  is,  our  safety  is  not  in 
habits  of  virtue.  It  is  not  in  sturdy  resolution  and  strength  of 
character.  It  is  not  even  in  the  timely  thought  of  sin's  conse- 
quences; but  our  safety  is  in  the  Saviour.  Christ  ever  lives 
and  ever  intercedes;  and  it  is  our  strength,  our  triumph,  to 
rush  into  His  arms  of  omnipotent  protection. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


I  come  to  Thee,  O  Christ.  Faint  and  perishing,  defence- 
less and  needy,  with  many  a.  sin  and  many  a  fear,  to  Thee  I 
turn,  for  Thou  hast  died  for  me,  and  for  me  Thou  dost  live. 
Be  Thou  my  shelter  and  strong  tower.  Give  me  to  drink  of 
living  water.  Let  me  rest  in  Thee  while  in  this  weary  land; 
and  let  Thy  sweet  love,  my  Brother  and  my  Lord,  be  mine  all 
on  earth  and  the  heaven  of  my  heaven. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Well,  then.  Lord  Jesus  !  I  will  creep  if  I  cannot  walk;  I 
will  take  hold  of  Thy  word.  When  I  stumble,  Thou  wilt  sup- 
port me;  when  I  fall.  Thou  wilt  hold  out  Thy  cross,  and  help 
me  with  it  to  rise  again,  until  at  length  I  reach  the  place  where 
Thou   art,  and  with  all  my  weaknesses  and  wants,  cast  myself 

into  Thy  bosom. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Christ  is  a  rock  in  a  weary  land,  a  covert   from  the  tempest 

of  Divine  justice,  receiving  through    the   ages   the    snows   of 

Divine  mercy,  and  melting  them  for  the  green  pastures  and 

still  waters  of    God's   peaceful  flock  —  a  rock  against  which 

wicked  men   and  devils  have  breathed  their  empty  curses  in 

vain,  for  eighteen  hundred  years, 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Rock  of  Ages,  cleft  for  me ! 
Let  me  hide  myself  in  Thee. 


CHRIST  :    ROCK  OF  AGES.  101 

When  the  tempest  rages, 
In  the  Rock  of  Ages 

I  will  safely  hide; 
Though  the  earth  be  shaking, 
And  all  hearts  be  quaking, 

Christ  is  at  my  side. 

JOHANN   FrANCK. 


The  sea  ebbs  and  flows,  but  the  rock  remains  unmoved. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


If  hope  be  fixed  on  Christ  as  the  Rock  of  Ages,  a  rock  rent, 

if  we  may  use  the  expression,  on  purpose  that  there  might  be  a 

holding-place  for  the  anchors  of  a  perishing  world,  it  may  well 

come  to  pass  that  we  enjoy  a  calm  as  we  journey  through  life, 

and  draw  near  the  grave. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Rock  of  Ages,  I'm  secure, 

With  Thy  promise  full  and  free; 
Faithful,  positive, and  sure  — 

"  As  thy  days,  thy  strength  shall  be." 

—  W.  F.  Lloyd. 


Would  you  be  free  from  the  condemnation  of  the  sins  that 
are  past,  from  the  power  of  the  temptations  that  are  to  come  ? 
Then  take  your  stand  on  the  Rock  of  Ages.  Let  death,  let 
the  grave,  let  the  judgment  come,  the  victory  is  Christ's  and 
yours  through  Him. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Blest  is  my  lot  whate'er  befall ; 
What  can  disturb  me,  who  appall, 
While,  as  my  strength,  my  rock,  my  all. 
Saviour  !  I  cling  to  Thee  ? 

—  C.  Elliott. 


102  CHRIST'S  SECOND  COMING. 

To-day  Christ,  in  a  certain  sense,  is  on  trial  before  us  all. 
In  these  living  hearts,  in  every  one  to-day,  there  will  be  a  judg- 
ment of  some  sort  passed  upon  His  sacred  person. 

—  William  Adams. 


Now  let  us  gather  into  one  bouquet,  from  the  King's  garden, 
these  seven  fragrant  flowers:  Jesus  the  Son  of  God;  Jesus 
our  sin-bearer ;  Jesus  the  giver  of  eternal  life ;  Jesus  the 
keeper  of  our  undying  souls;  Jesus  the  hearer  of  our  prayers; 
Jesus  the  chastener  who  can  turn  crosses  into  crowns ;  and 
Jesus  the  wonder-worker  who  changes  us  into  eternal  likeness 
unto  Himself !  These  flowers  will  keep  sweet  till  heaven 
dawns. 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


Earth,  thou  grain  of  sand  on  the  shore  of  the  Universe  of 
God ;  thou  Bethlehem,  amongst  the  princely  cities  of  the 
heavens;  thou  art,  and  remainest,  the  Loved  One  amongst  ten 
thousand  suns  and  worlds,  the  Chosen  of  God  !  Thee  will  He 
again  visit,  and  then  thou  wilt  prepare  a  throne  for  Him,  as 
thou  gavest  Him  a  manger  cradle;  in  His  radiant  glory  wilt 
thou  rejoice,  as  thou  didst  once  drink  His  blood  and  tears, 
and  mourn  His  death  !  On  thee  has  the  Lord  a  great  work  to 
complete. 

—  Pressel. 


If  I  were  but  sure  that  I  should  live  to  see  the  coming  of  the 
Lord,  it  would  be  the  joyfulest  tidings  in  the  world.  O  that  I 
might  see  His  kingdom  come  !  It  is  the  characteristic  of  His 
saints  to  love  His  appearing,  and  to  look  for  that  blessed  hope. 
"The  Spirit  and  the  bride  say,  Come."  "  Even  so,  come.  Lord 
Jesus." 

—  Richard  Baxter. 


We  beseech  Thee,  cut  short  Thy  delay  and  tarry  not;  come 
forth  out  of  Thy  pavilion,  O  Thou  for  whom  the  ages  wait  ! 


CHRISTIANS.  103 


CHRISTIANS. 

A  Christian  is  a  man  in  CJirist.  "  If  any  man  be  in  Christ." 
A  Christian  is  a  man  for  Christ.  "  Glorify  God  in  your  body 
and  spirit  which  are  God's." 


Richard  Fuller. 


He  that  will  deserve  the  name  of  a  Christian  must  be  such  a 
man  as  excelleth  through  the  knowledge  of  Christ  and  His 
doctrine;  in  modesty  and  righteousness  of  mind,  in  constancy 
of  life,  in  virtuous  fortitude,  and  in  maintaining  sincere  piety 
toward  the  one  and  the  only  God,  who  is  all  in  all. 

—  EUSEBIUS. 


Christians  are  called  saints,  for  their  holiness ;  believers,  for 
their  faith  ;  brethern,  for  their  love  ;  disciples,  for  their  knowledge. 

—  Fuller. 


A  Christian  is  a  believer  in  Jesus.  He  believes  that  if  he  only 
throws  his  own  lost  and  sinful  soul  on  the  Redeemer,  there  is  in 
His  sacrifice  sufficient  merit  to  cancel  all  his  guilt,  and  in  His 
heart  sufficient  love  to  undertake  the  keeping  of  his  soul  for  all 
eternity.  He  believes  that  Jesus  is  a  Saviour.  He  believes 
that  His  heart  is  set  on  His  people's  holiness,  and  that  it  is 
only  by  making  them  new  creatures,  pure-minded,  kind-hearted, 
unselfish,  devout,  that  He  can  fit  them  for  a  home  and  a  life 
like  His  own,  that  He  can  fit  them  for  the  occupations  and  en- 
joyments of  heaven.  And  believing  all  this  he  prays  and  labors 
after  holiness. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


It  is  through  the  multitudinous  mass  of  living  human  hearts, 
of  human  acts  and  words  of  love  and  truth,  that  the  Christ  of 
the  first  century  has  become  the  Christ  of  the  nineteenth. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


104  CHRISTIANS. 


Now  see  what  a  Christian  is,  drawn  by  the  hand  of  Christ. 
He  is  a  man  on  whose  clear  and  open  brow  God  has  set  the 
stamp  of  truth;  one  whose  very  eye  beams  bright  with  honor; 
in  whose  very  look  and  bearing  you  may  see  freedom,  manli- 
ness, veracity;  a  brave  man  —  a  noble  man  —  frank,  generous, 
true,  with,  it  may  be,  many  faults;  whose  freedom  may  take 
the  form  of  impetuosity  or  rashness,  but  the  form  of  meanness 
never. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


It  was  a  deep  true  thought  which  the  old  painters  had,  when 
they  drew  John  as  likest  to  his  Lord.     Love  makes  us  like. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren.   - 


A  child  of  God  should  be  a  visible   Beatitude,  for  joy  and 
happiness,  and  a  living  Doxology,  for  gratitude  and  adoration. 

—  C.   H.  Spurgeon. 


The  purified  righteous  man  has  become  a  coin  of  the  Lord, 
and  has  the  impress  of  his  King  stamped  upon  him. 

—  Clement  of  Alexandria. 


Ordinary  human  motives  will  appeal  in  vain  to  the  ears  which 
have  heard  the  tones  of  the  heavenly  music;  and  all  the  pomp 
of  life  will  show  poor  and  tawdry  to  the  sight  that  has  gazed 
on  the  vision  of  the  great  white  throne  and  the  crystal  sea. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  sum  of  the  whole  matter  is  this  —  He  who  is  one  in  will 
and  heart  with  God  is  a  Christian.  He  who  loves  God  is  one 
in  will  and  heart  with  Him.  He  who  trusts  Christ  loves  God. 
That  is  Christianity  in  its  ultimate  purpose  and  result.  That 
is  Christianity  in  its  means  and  working  forces.  That  is  Chris- 
tianity in  its  starting-point  and  foundation. 

—  Alexander   Maclaren. 


CHRISTIANS.  105 


These  —  lowliness,  meekness,  long-suffering,  loving  forbear- 
ance —  quiet,  unpretending,  unshowy  virtues,  are  amongst  the 
best  means  for  promoting  true  unity  in  the  church  of  God. 
Who  is  the  most  useful  Christian  ?  Not  as  a  rule  he  who  has 
the  most  transcendent  genius,  brilliant  talents,  and  command- 
ing eloquence,  but  he  who  has  the  most  of  this  quiet,  loving, 
forbearing  spirit.  The  world  may  do  without  its  Niagara, 
whose  thundering  roar  and  majestic  rush  excite  the  highest 
amazement  of  mankind,  but  it  cannot  spare  the  thousand  rivu- 
lets that  glide  unseen  and  unheard  every  moment  through  the 
earth,  imparting  life,  and  verdure,  and  beauty  wherever  they  go. 
And  so  the  church  may  do  without  its  men  of  splendid  abilities, 
but  it  cannot  do  without  its  men  of  tender,  loving,  forbearing 
souls. 

—  David  Thomas. 


The  weakest  believer  is  a  member  of  Christ  as  well  as  the 
strongest;  and  the  weakest  member  of  the  body  mystically  shall 
not  perish.  Christ  will  cut  off  rotten  members,  but  not  weak 
members. 

—  Watson. 


The  last,  best  fruit  that  comes  to  perfection,  even  in  the 
kindliest  soul,  is  tenderness  toward  the  hard;  forbearance 
toward  the  unforbearing  ;  warmth  of  heart  toward  the  cold; 
and  philanthropy  toward  the  misanthropic. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


There  is  nothing  that  will  make  you  a  Christian  indeed,  but 
a  taste  of  the  sweetness  of  Christ. 

—  Rutherford. 


The  greatness  of  God  is  the  true  rebuke  to  the  littleness  of 
men.  The  greatness  of  Christ  is  the  true  rebuke  to  the  little- 
ness of  Christians. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


106  CHRISTIANS. 


A  greater  absurdity  cannot  be  thought  of  than  a  morose, 
hard-hearted,  covetous,  proud,  maHcious  Christian. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


God  Hstens  for  nothing  so  tenderly,  as  when  His  children 
help  each  other  by  their  testimonies  to  His  goodness  and  the 
way  in  which  He  has  brought  them  deliverance. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Christ,  in  that  place  He  hath  put  you,  hath  intrusted  you 
with  a  dear  pledge,  which  is  His  own  glory,  and  hath  armed 
you  with  His  sword  to  keep  the  pledge,  and  make  a  good 
account  of  it  to  God. 

—  Rutherford. 


The  man  who  is  satisfied,  because  he  thinks  he  is  safe,  who 
feels  that  he  has  religion  enough,  because  he  thinks  he  has 
enough  to  save  him  from  hell,  is  as  ignorant  of  the  power  as  he 
is  a  stranger  to  the  consolation  of  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


Like  the  cellar-growing  vine  is  the  Christian  who  lives  in  the 
darkness  and  bondage  of  fear.  But  let  him  go  forth,  with  the 
liberty  of  God,  into  the  light  of  love,  and  he  will  be  like  the 
plant  in  the  field,  healthy,  robust, and  joyful, 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Let  us  not  torment  each  other  because  we  are  not  all  alike, 
but  believe  that  God  knew  best  what  He  was  doing  in  making 
us  so  different.  So  will  the  best  harmony  come  out  of  seem- 
ing discords,  the  best  affection  out  of  differences,  the  best  life 
out  of  struggle,  and  the  best  work  will  be  done  when  each  does 
his  own  work,  and  lets  every  one  else  do  and  be  what  God 

made  him  for. 

—  James  F.  Clarke. 


CHRISTIAN  CONFLICT.  107 

Being  in  Christ,  it  is  safe  to  forget  the  past;  it  is  possible  to 
be  sure  of  the  future;  it  is  possible  to  be  diligent  in  the  present. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Whatever   makes  men   good    Christians    makes  them  good 

citizens. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


CHRISTIAN  CONFLICT. 
The  path  which  leads  to  the  mount  bf  ascension  does  not  lie 
among  flowers;  and  he  who  travels  it  must  climb  the  cold  hill- 
side, he  must  have  his  feet  cut  by  the  pointed  rocks,  he  must 
faint  in  the  dark   valley,  he   must  not  seldom   have   his  rest  at 

midnight  on  the  desert  sand. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Difficulties  are  God's  errands;  and  when  we  are   sent  upon 

them,  we  should  esteem  it  a  proof  of  God's  confidence, —  as  a 

compliment  from  God. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


He  that  o'ercometh  hath  power  in  the  nations, 
Stronger  than  steel  is  the  sword  of  the  Spirit; 
Swifter  than  arrows,  the  light  of  the  truth; 
Greater  than  anger  is  love  that  subdueth. 

—  H.  W.  Longfellow. 


It  is  easy  to  say  "  resist;  "  but  the  command  is  bitter  irony, 
unless  we  go  on  to  say  with  the  New  Testament, —  "  Wliom 
resist  steadfast  in  the  faith."  No  man,  my  dear  brother,  can 
stand  in  the  slippery  places  where  we  have  to  go,  unless  he 
have  the  grasp  of  a  higher  and  stronger  hand  to  keep  him  up. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


108  CHRISTIAN  CONFLICT. 

Conflict,  not  progress,  is   the  word  that  defines  man's  path 

from  darkness  into  light.      No  holiness   is  won  by  any  other 

means  than  this,  that  wickedness  should  be  slain  day  by  day, 

and  hour  by  hour. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Dear  brethren,  make  your  choice.     Fight  you   must.     Are 

you  going  to  win  or  be  beaten?     Make  your  choice  of  the 

image  you  must  bear.     Whose  ? 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


There  are  two  ways  of  defending  a  castle;  one  by  shutting 
yourself  up  in  it,  and  guarding  every  loop-hole;  the  other  by 
making  it  an  open  centre  of  operations  from  which  all  the  sur- 
rounding country  may  be  subdued.  Is  not  the  last  the  truest 
safety  ?  Jesus  was  never  guarding  Himself,  but  always  invad- 
ing the  lives  of  others  with  His  holiness.  There  never  was 
such  an  open  life  as  His;  and  yet  the  force  with  which  His 
character  and  love  flowed  out  upon  the  world  kept  back,  more 
strongly  than  any  granite  wall  of  prudent  caution  could  have 
done,  the  world  from  pressing  in  on  Him.  His  life  was  like 
an  open  stream  which  keeps  the  sea  from  flowing  up  into  it  by 
the  eager  force  with  which  it  flows  down  into  the  sea.  He  was 
so  anxious  that  the  world  should  be  saved  that  therein  was  His 
salvation  from  the  world.  He  labored  so  to  make  the  world 
pure  that  He  never  even  had  to  try  to  be  pure  Himself. 

—  Phillips  Brooks- 


Guided  by  His  wisdom,  strong  in  His  strength,  there  may  be 
for  you  struggle  and  suffering,  the  darkness  and  the  storm. 
"The  disciple  is  not  above  His  Master."  There  may  be  weep- 
ing that  shall  endure  for  a  night,  but  joy  shall  come  in  the 
morning.  If  the  night  cometh,  so  also  the  morning,  "  a  morn- 
ing without  clouds,"  the  morning  of  an  eternal  day. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


CHRISTIAN  CONFLICT.  109 

The  success  of  sainthood  is  the  success  attained  by  struggle 
and  suffering  and  achieved  by  faith;  a  success  of  honor,  of  clean 
hands  and  pure  heart,  of  service  to  man  and  glory  to  God. 

—  Bishop  Doane. 


Christ  is  the  ideal  of  what  a  man  should  be.  He  has  my 
ideal  portrait,  as  it  were,  drawn  out  in  His  own  thought  and 
feeling.  There  is  an  exaltation  and  a  grandeur  for  myself  in 
the  time  to  come,  which  Christ  knows,  and  I  do  not;  but  I  am 
following  after.  I  am  pressing  up  toward  that  thought  that 
Christ  has  of  what  I  am  and  ought  to  be;  and  I  am  determined 
that  I  will  apprehend  it  as  Christ  Himself  does.  Not  that  I 
have  it;  but  I  will  strive  for  it.  My  manhood  is  in  the  future. 
My  life  lies  beyond  the  present. 

—  H.  W,  Beecher. 


That  discipline  which  corrects  the  baseness  of  worldly  pas- 
sion, fortifies  the  heart  with  virtuous  principles,  enlightens  the 
mind  with  useful  knowledge,  and  furnishes  it  with  enjoyment 
from  within  itself,  is  of  more  consequence  to  real  felicity,  than 
all  the  provision  we  can  make  of  the  goods  of  fortune. 

—  Blair. 


We  thank  God,  in  this  our  day,  for  the  furnace  and  the  fire; 
for  the  good  sword  and  the  true  word;  for  the  great  triumph 
and  the  little  song.  —  B.  F.  Taylor. 


Ah,  my  brother,  it  is  a  far  harder  thing,  and  it  is  a  far  higher 
proof  of  a  thorough-going,  persistent,  Christian  principle  woven 
into  the  very  texture  of  my  soul,  to  go  on  plodding  and  patient, 
never  taken  by  surprise  by  any  small  temptation,  than  to  gather 
into  myself  the  strength  which  God  has  given  me,  and,  expect- 
ing some  great  storm  to  come  down  upon  me,  to  stand  fast,  and 
let  it  rage.  It  is  a  great  deal  easier  to  die  once  for  Christ  than 
to  live  always  for  Him. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


110  CHRISTIAN  FELLOWSHIP, 

Brethren,  are  you  in  earnest  ?  If  so,  though  your  faith  be 
weak,  and  your  struggles  unsatisfactory,  you  may  begin  the 
hymn  of  triumph  noiu,  for  victory  is  pledged.  "  Thanks  be  to 
God,  which  " — not  shall  give,  but  "givet/i  us  the  victory  through 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  — F.  W.  Robertson. 

The  disciples  seem  alone;  but   up  yonder,   in  some   hidden 

cleft  of  the  hills,  their  Master  looks  down  on   all  the  weltering 

storm,  and  lifts  His  voice  in  prayer.     Then  when  the  need  is 

sorest,  and  the  hope  least.  He  comes  across  the  waves,  making 

their   surges    His  pavement,  and  using  all  opposition  as  the 

means  of  His  approach;  and  His  presence  brings  calmness;  and 

immediately  they  are  at  the  land.  • 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  way  is  long  and  dreary. 

The  path  is  bleak  and  bare ; 
Our  feet  are  worn  and  weary. 

But  we  will  not  despair  ; 
More  weary  was  Thy  burden, 

More  desolate  Thy  ways, 
O  Lamb  of  God,  who  takest 

The  sin  of  the  world  away, 

Have  mercy  upon  us. 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


CHRISTIAN    FELLOWSHIP. 

The  same  bond  which  unites  believers  to  Christ  binds  them 
to  each  other.  The  love  which  is  exercised  towards  the  Head 
extends  to  the  members.  The  union  itself  necessarily  involves 
a  union  of  affection.  Those  who  love  Christ  love  those  who 
are  like  Him  and  those  who  are  beloved  by  Him. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


The  social  element  is  the  genius  of  Christianity. 


CHRISTIAN  FELLOWSHIP.  Ill 

The  golden  chain  of  affection  is  binding  together  all  who 
compose  the  goodly  fellowship  of  the  saints.  Calvary  rather 
than  Sinai  is  the  typical  source  of  the  church's  inspiration  ; 
and  bonds  of  law  are  being  supplanted  by  bonds  of  love. 
Indeed,  the  whole  host  of  the  redeemed  is  marching  in  solid 
phalanx  against  the  combined  forces  of  ignorance  and  error, 
of  depravity  and  sin;  while,  high  above  all  the  regimental 
standards,  floats  the  banner  of  the  cross,  blazoned  with  this 
suggestive  inscription,  "  Everyone  that  loveth  is  born  of  God." 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


There  is  a  mighty  gulf  between  those  who  love  and  those 
who  do  not  love  God.  To  the  one  class  we  owe  civility, 
courtesy,  kindness,  even  tenderness.  It  is  only  those  who  love 
the  Lord  who  should  find  in  our  hearts  a  home. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Ye  are  born,  all  of  you,  to  a  royal  birthright.  Scorn  not  the 
poor,  thou  wealthy  —  his  toil  is  nobler  than  thy  luxury.  Fret 
not  at  the  rich,  thou  poor  —  his  beneficence  is  cpmelier  than 
thy  murmuring.  Join  hands,  both  of  you,  rich  and  poor  to- 
gether, as  ye  toil  in  the  brotherhood  of  God's  great  harvest- 
field —  heirs  of  a  double  heritage  —  thou  poor,  of  thy  kingly 
labor  —  thou  rich,  of  thy  queenly  charity  —  and  let  heaven  bear 
witness  to  the  bridal. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  lack  of  brotherhood  among  believers  themselves  has 
paralyzed  the  church  in  front  of  the  skepticism  and  immorality 
of  the  world ;  but  when  we  go  back  in  simple  faith  to  the  one 
great  fact  of  our  redemption,  we  shall  be  both  brought  into 
closer  fellowship  with  each  other,  and  stimulated  to  more 
tender  regard  for  the  salvation  of  men. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


112  CHRISTIAN  LIFE. 


The  church  and  the  world  aUke  demand  that  those  who  pro- 
fess to  love  the  Lord  should  be  careful  to  love  their  brethren 
also.  It  is  for  them  to  have  in  essentials  unity,  in  non-essen- 
tials diversity,  in  all  things  charity.  Only  so  can  the  church 
realize  the  ideal  of  its  Divine  Founder,  and  foreshadow  its 
future  excellence  and  beauty.  Only  so  can  this  spiritual  struct- 
ure be  celestial  and  glorious,  revealing  in  all  its  fair  propor- 
tions from  dome  and  turret,  from  glittering  spires  and  airy 
traceries,  its  marvelous  symmetry  and  oneness,  while  at  the 
same  time  it  swells  from  every  organ  pipe,  and  chants  in  every 
choral  anthem  the  praises  of  Him  whose  essence  is  love,  and 
whose  being  is  characterized  by  unity. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes.    . 


Shake  hands  with  somebody  as  you  go  out  of  church.  The 
more  of  it  the  better,  if  it  is  expressive  of  real  interest  and  feel- 
ing. There  may  be  a  great  deal  of  the  spirit  of  the  gospel  put 
into  a  hearty  shake  of  the  hand. 

—  The  Presbyterian. 


If  there  is  a  sentence  in  the  creed  which  we  cannot  say  to- 
gether, there  is  nothing  in  Christ  which  we  would  wish  to  be 
different;  and  heresies  of  the  heart  are  quite  as  dangerous,  and 
to  me  as  estranging,  as  errors  in  the  head. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


CHRISTIAN  LIFE. 

The  Christian  life  is  not  knowing  or  hearing,  but  doing. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  only  satisfactory  manifestations  of  religious  character 
and  life  are  associated  with  the  reciprocal  influences  of  spiritual 
experience  and  aggressive  activity. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


CHRISTIAN  LIFE.  113 


No  true  work  since  the  world  began  was  ever  wasted ;  no 
true  life  since  the  world  began  has  ever  failed.  Oh,  under- 
stand those  two  perverted  words  "failure"  and  "success," 
and  measure  them  by  the  eternal,  not  by  the  earthly  standard. 
When  after  thirty  obscure,  toilsome,  unrecorded  years  in  the 
shop  of  the  village  carpenter,  one  came  forth  to  be  preemi- 
nently the  man  of  sorrows,  to  wander  from  city  to  city  in  home- 
less labors,  and  to  expire  in  lonely  agony  upon  the  shameful 
cross  —  was  that  a  failure  ?  Nay,  my  brethren,  it  was  the  death 
of  Him  who  lived  that  we  might  follow  His  footsteps,  it  was 
the  life,  it  was  the  death  of  the  Son  of  God. 

—  F.  W.  Farrar. 


Each  sinner  transformed  into  a  saint  is  a  new  token  of  a  re- 
deeming power  among  men.  That  token  declares  to  observers, 
not  that  there  is  a  King  in  heaven,  not  that  there  is  a  "  Father 
of  Lights,"  but  that  there  is  a  Saviour.  And  this  is  the  testi- 
mony that  the  world  especially  needs. 

—  William  Arthur, 


It  takes  practice  to  use  one's  eyes,  even  when  God  has 
opened  them.  And  there  are  some  believers  who  never  get  be- 
yond confounding  a  doctrinal  statement  of  a  truth  with  a  living 
exemplification  of  that  truth. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


There  is  just  now  a  great  clamor  and  demand  for  "  culture;  " 
but  it  is  not  so  much  culture  that  is  needed  as  discipline. 

—  Prof.  Shedd. 


The  strength  that  we  want  is  not  a  brute,  unregulated 
strength;  the  beauty  that  we  want  is  no  mere  surface  beauty; 
but  we  want  a  beauty  on  the  surface  of  life  that  is  from  the  cen- 
tral force  of  principle  within,  as  the  beauty  on  the  cheek  of 
health  is  from  the  central  force  at  the  heart. 

8  — Mark  Hopkins. 


114  CHRISTIAN  LIFE. 


The  way  to  be  strong  is  to  act  on  the  credit  of  strength  being 

given.     Strength  is  received  in  the  act  of  obeying.      When  the 

path  of  duty  is  clear,  it  is  want  of  faith  to  continue  asking  for 

strength,  and  not  to  act  upon  it. 

—  G.  W.  Mylne. 


Great  talents  are  not,  before  God,  a  substitute  for  love  for 

Himself;  the  possession  of  a  profound  intellect  does  not  free 

any  man  from  the  obligations   resting  on  the   heart  for  purity 

and  holiness ;  a  reputation  for  attainments  in  science  does  not 

settle  the   question  whether  he  is  righteous  before  his  Maker; 

refined  manners  are  not,  in  the  sight  of  God,  a  substitute  for 

the  graces  of  the   Spirit;  God   does   not   justify  man  on  the 

ground  of  human  learning;  attainments  in  chemistry,  anatomy, 

geology,  botany,  astronomy,  or  skill  in  sculpture  and  painting, — 

these  do  not  prepare  a  man  to  die. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Emotion,  feeling  —  these  are  well  enough  if  they  feed  the 
springs  of  power.  Prayer,  praise,  preaching  —  these  are  all 
good  and  never  to  be  dispensed  with;  but  if  the  life  to  which 
they  minister  have  no  manifestation  out  of  them,  it  is  a  failure. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Though  to  us  —  the  toilers  —  it  is  night  still,  to  Him  —  the 
Master  who  watcheth  our  labor,  and  to  them  —  our  fellows 
whose  labor  is  done  —  "there  is  light  with  a  clear  sky." 
Though  to  us,  down  below,  there  is  but  the  deafening  roar,  the 
shriek  of  discord,  the  wail  of  pain,  blent  in  one  jargon  of 
strange  sounds  which  have  no  chime;  to  them,  above  in  the 
high,  calm  silence,  there  are  heard  only  the  striking  of  the  hour 
which  tells  of  the  sure  speed  of  time,  and  the  voice  of  the  joy- 
bells  already  ringing  for  the  world's  great  bridal. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


CHRISTIAN  LIFE.  115 

So  I  take  my  life  as  I  find  it,  as  a  life  full  of  grand  advan- 
tages that  are  linked  indissolubly  to  my  noblest  happiness  and 
my  everlasting  safety.  I  believe  that  Infinite  Love  ordained 
it,  and  that,  if  I  bow  willingly,  tractably,  and  gladly  to  its  dis- 
cipline, my  Father  will  take  care  of  it. 

—  T-  G.  Holland. 


The  religious  life  is  a  struggle,  and  not  a  hymn. 

—  Madame  DE  St  AEL. 


God  grant  that  as  our  horizon  of  duty  is  widened,  our  minds 
may  widen  with  it;  that  as  our  burden  is  increased,  our  shoul- 
ders may  be  strengthened  to  bear  it.  God  grant  to  us  that 
spirit  of  wisdom  and  understanding,  uprightness,  and  godly 
fear,  without  which,  even  in  greatest  things  there  is  nothing; 
with  which,  even  in  the  smallest  things  there  is  every  thing. 

—  Dean  Stanley, 


In  his  soul,  as  in  a  mirror,  were  concentrated  all  the  lights 
radiating  from  every  point  of  observation  —  whether  human 
or  Divine  —  and  from  his  soul  as  from  a  mirror,  these  lights 
were  reflected  back  in  every  possible  combination  of  beauty 
and  sublimity. 

—  Sir  J.  Stephens. 


The  demand  of  the  day  is  for  a  higher  standard  and  style  of 
Christian  life.  Every  follower  of  Christ  must  represent  His 
religion  purely,  loftily,  impressively,  before  that  multitude  of 
"  Bible-readers  "  whose  only  Bible  is  the  Christian, 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


If  a  man  is  as  passionate,  malicious,  resentful,  sullen,  moody, 
or  morose,  after  his  conversion  as  before  it,  what  is  he  converted 
from  or  to  ? 

—  John  Angel  James, 


116  CHRISTIAN  LIFE. 


Show  me  the  professing  Christian  whose  social  character  is 
as  unlovely  after  profession  as  it  was  before,  and  though  there 
may  be  an  increase  of  knowledge  and  of  some  other  things 
connected  with  religion,  there  is  no  progress. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


Here  is  where  a  great  many  professed  disciples  of  Jesus  fail 
of  being  real  disciples.  They  have  regularly  enlisted,  have  put 
on  their  uniform,  and  there  they  stand  before  the  recruiting 
office,  with  knapsacks  and  blankets  on  their  backs,  with  mus- 
kets at  "carry,"  marking  time  to  the  martial  music  —  although 
some  of  them  don't  do  even  that;  and  there  they  have  stood 
since  their  enlistment,  never  marching  a  rod. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


Some  time  ago  when  in  a  mine,  looking  through  its  dark 
corridors,  I  every  now  and  then  saw  the  glimmer  of  a  moving 
lamp,  and  I  could  track  it  all  through  the  mine.  The  reason 
was  that  the  miner  carried  it  on  his  hat, —  it  was  a  part  of  him- 
self, and  it  showed  where  he  went.  I  said,  "  Would  that  in 
this  dark  world  every  miner  of  the  Master  carried  his  lamp  to 
show  where  he  walks." 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


You  may  be  quite  sure  that  if  little  light  comes  from  a 
Christian  character,  little  light  comes  into  it.  We  must  have 
the  glory  sink  into  us  before  it  can  be  reflected  from  us. 


But  let  the  love  of  Jesus  become  the  master-principle  of  our 
hearts,  and  there  will  be  no  halting  or  irresolution;  no  parley- 
ing with  temptation;  no  seeking  to  explain  away  our  duty  under 
color  of  deliberating  to  discover  what  it  is;  no  looking  one  way 
and  walking  another ;  but  with  undivided  souls,  and  with  en- 
thusiastic devotion,  we  shall  do  only  and  always  the  will  of 
Him  who  loved  us,  and  gave  Himself  for  us. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


CHRISTIAN  LIFE.  117 


In  self-examination,  take  no  account  of  yourself  by  your 
thoughts  and  resolutions  in  the  days  of  religion  and  solemnity; 
examine  how  it  is  with  you  in  the  days  of  ordinary  conversa- 
tion and  in  the  circumstances  of  secular  employment. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Count  not  that  thou  hast  lived  that  day,  in  which  thou  hast 
not  lived  with  God. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Life,  like  war,  is  a  series  of  mistakes;  and  he  is  not  the  best 
Christian  nor  the  best  general  who  makes  the  fewest  false  steps. 
Poor  mediocrity  may  secure  that;  but  he  is  the  best  who  wins 
the  most  splendid  victories  by  the  retrieval  of  mistakes.  Forget 
mistakes;  organize  victory  out  of  mistakes. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Looking  back  the  way  we've  come, 
AVhat  a  sight,  O  Lord,  we  see  ! 

All  the  failures  in  ourselves, 

All  the  love  and  strength  in  Thee. 

Yet  it  seemed  so  dark  before  — 

Would  that  we  had  trusted  more! 


Is  thine  a  life  of  devotion,  of  meekness  and  humility,  of 
supreme  attachment  to  heavenly  and  divine  things;  of  self- 
denial  and  of  universal  benevolence  ?  If  after  candid  exami- 
nation you  find  reason  to  hope  that  you  are  one  of  God's  dear 
children  washed  with  His  blood,  sanctified  by  the  Spirit, 
clothed  with  the  righteousness  of  the  Well  Beloved  —  cherish 
that  hope  as  the  gift  of  heaven.  Dismiss  your  fears;  bind 
yourself  to  be  the  Lord's  in  an  everlasting  covenant;  think  less 
of  yourself  and  more  and  more  of  the  name,  the  cross,  the 
glory  of  your  Redeemer.     Henceforth  "  let  your  light  shine." 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


118  CHRISTIAN  LIFE. 


O  Lord  and  Sovereign  of  my  Life,  take  from   me   the  spirit 
of  idleness,  despair,  love  of  power,  and  unprofitable  speaking. 

—  Old  Russian  Liturgy. 


It  is  they  who  glorify,  who  shall  enjoy  Him ;  they  who  deny 
themselves,  who  shall  not  be  denied  ;  they  who  labor  on  earth, 
who  shall  rest  in  heaven;  they  who  bear  the  cross,  who  shall 
wear  the  crown  ;  they  who  seek  to  bless  others,  who  shall  be 

blessed. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


The  truest  worship  is  a  life; 

All  dreaming  we  resign; 
We  lay  our  offerings  at  Thy  feet, — 

Our  lives,  O  God,  are  Thine  ! 

—  John  Weiss, 


Live  for  the  other  life.  Endure  as  seeing  Him  who  is  invis- 
ible. Work  by  faith;  work  by  hope  ;  work  by  love;  work  by 
courage;  work  by  trust;  work  by  the  sweet  side  of  your  mind; 
and  so  be  like  Christ,  until  you  dwell  with  Him. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Bearing  bravely  the  evils  that  beset  us,  doing  cheerfully  the 

duties  that  are  near,  trusting   in  God,  guided   by  Christ,   fear 

shall    not  confound  us  in  the  way,  and  death  shall   find  us 

ready. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


The  Christian's  life  on  this  side  and  beyond  the  grave  is 
essentially  the  same,  differing  only  as  a  song  which,  at  a  certain 
point,  changes  from  the  minor  to  the  major  key,  and  thence- 
forth wells  along  with  still  more  glorious  harmonies. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE.  119 

All  the  graces  of  Christianity  always  go  together.  They  so 
go  together  that  where  there  is  one,  there  are  all,  and  where 
one  is  wanting,  all  are  wanting.  Where  there  is  faith,  there 
are  love,  and  hope, and  humility;  and  where  there  is  love,  there 
is  also  trust;  and  where  there  is  a  holy  trust  in  God,  there  is 
love  to  God;  and  where  there  is  a  gracious  hope,  there  also  is 
a  holy  fear  of  God. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 

He  who  lives  to  God  rests  in  his  Redeemer's  love,  and  is 
trying  to  get  rid  of  his  old  nature  —  to  him  every  sorrow,  every 
bereavement,  every  pain,  will  come  charged  with  blessings,  and 
death  itself  will  be  no  longer  the  "  king  of  terrors,"  but  the 
messenger  of  grace. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  death-bed  testimony  impresses  us  only  as  it  is  the  out- 
growth of  a  life.  The  life  is  the  test.  Triumphant  living  is 
better  than  triumphant  dying. 

—  E.  P.  Tenney. 


O  happy  life  !  life  hid  with  Christ  in  God ! 

So  making  me 
At  home  and  by  the  wayside  and  abroad. 

Alone  with  Thee. 

—  Elizabeth  Payson  Prentiss. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 

Life  passes;  work  is  permanent.  It  is  all  going  —  fleeting 
and  withering.  Youth  goes.  Mind  decays.  That  which  is 
done  remains.  Through  ages,  through  eternity,  what  you  have 
done  for  God,  that,  and  only  that,  you  are.     Deeds  never  die. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


120  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 


Every  day  in  this  world  has  its  work;  and  every  day  as  it 
rises  out  of  eternity  keeps  putting  to  each  of  us  this  question 
afresh,  "  What  will  you  do  before  to-day  has  sunk  into  eternity 
and  nothingness  again  ?  "  And  now  what  have  we  to  say  with 
respect  to  this  strange,  solemn  thing — Time?  That  men  do 
with  it  through  life  just  what  the  apostles  did  for  one  precious 
and  irreparable  hour  in  the  garden  of  Gethsemane  —  they  go 
to  sleep. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Whoever  lives  a  noble  life  for  Christ  and  God  —  he  is  one  of 
God's  workmen,  working  on  that  building  of  which  God  is  the 
supreme  Architect. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


There  is  one  thing  that  makes  life  mighty  in  its  veriest  trifles, 
worthy  in  its  smallest  deeds,  that  delivers  it  from  monotony, 
that  delivers  it  from  insignificance.  All  will  be  great,  nothing 
will  be  overpowering,  when,- living  in  communion  with  Jesus 
Christ,  we  say  as  He  says,  "  My  meat  is  to  do  the  will  of  Him 
that  sent  me." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  simple  desire  and  purpose  to  please  and  honor  and  serve 
the  Master  will  save  your  most  ordinary  work  from  being  con- 
temptible, and  will  give  to  your  greatest  service  a  beauty  and  ac- 
ceptableness  which  bulk  and  bigness  can  never  give. 

—  S.  E.  Herrick. 


My  Master  and  my  Lord  ! 

I  long  to  do  some  work,  some  work  for  Thee; 
I  long  to  bring  some  lowly  gift  of  love 

For  all  Thy  love  to  me. 

—  Hetty  Bowman. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE.  121 

The  ready,  earnest  heart  that  asks,  "  May  I  do  this  for  Thee, 
Lord  ?  "  not  "'  Must  I  do  it  ?  "  has  a  blessed  reward  moment 
by  moment. 

—  Christian  at  Work. 


Shall  I  grudge  to  spend  my  life  for  Him  who  did  not  grudge 

to  shed  His  life-blood  for  me  ? 

—  Beveridge. 


While  the  passion  of  some  is  to  shine,  of  some  to  govern, 
and  of  others  to  accumulate,  let  one  great  passion  alone  in- 
fluence our  breasts,  the  passion  which  reason  ratifies,  which 
conscience  approves,  which  Heaven  inspires,  —  that   of  being 


and  doing  good. 


Robert  Hall. 


We  must  be  something  in  order  to  do  something,  but  Ave 
must  also  do  something  in  order  to  be  something.  The  best 
rule,  I  think,  is  this:  If  we  find  it  hard  to  do  good,  then  let  us 
try  to  be  good.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  we  find  it  hard  to  be 
good,  then  let  us  try  to  do  good.  Being  leads  to  doing,  doing 
leads  to  being.  Yet  below  both  as  their  common  root  is  faith, 
—  faith  in  God,  in  man,  in  ourselves,  in  the  eternal  superiority 
of  right  over  wrong,  truth  over  error,  good  over  evil,  love  over 
all  selfishness  and  all  sin. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


We  are  not  to  wait  /o  be  in  preparing  to  be.  .  We  are  not  to 
wait  to  do  in  preparing  to  do,  but  to  find  in  being  and  doing 
preparation  for  higher  being  and  doing. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Nothing  progresses  more  rapidly  in  a  heart  set  upon  doing 
good  than  an  ability  to  be  useful.  They  who  at  first  are  timid, 
shy,  awkward,  in  such  efforts,  soon  acquire  courage,  expertness, 
and  efficiency.  — John  Angel  James. 


133  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 

There  are  multitudes  in  our  congregations  who  are  just  wait- 
ing while  they  ought  to  be  acting.  They  must  work,  if  they 
would  have  God  work  in  them.  There  can  be  no  religion 
without  obedience. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Give  an  earnest-hearted,  devoted  girl  any  true  work  that  will 
make  her  active  in  the  dawn,  and  weary  at  night,  with  the  con- 
sciousness that  her  fellow-creatures  have  indeed  been  the  bet- 
ter for  her  day,  and  the  powerless  sorrow  of  her  enthusiasm 
will  transform  itself  into  a  majesty  of  radiant  and  beneficent 
peace. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


God  works,  and  therefore  we  work ;  God  is  with  us,  and 
therefore  we  are  with  God,  and  stand  on  His  side. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  Spirit  never  makes  men  the  instruments  of  converting 
others  until  they  feel  that  they  cannot  do  it  themselves ;  that 
their  skill  in  argument,  in  persuasion,  in  management,  avails 
nothing. 

—  Charles  Hodge. 


Learn  these  two  things  :  never  be  discouraged  because  good 
things  get  on  so  slowly  here,  and  never  fail  daily  to  do  that 
good  which  lies  next  to  your  hand.  Do  not  be  in  a  hurry,  but 
be  diligent.  Enter  into  the  sublime  patience  of  the  Lord.  Be 
charitable  in  view  of  it.  God  can  afford  to  wait  ;  why  cannot 
we,  since  we  have  Him  to  fall  back  upon  ?  Let  patience  have 
her  perfect  work,  and  bring  forth  her  celestial  fruits.  Trust  to 
God  to  weave  your  little  thread  into  a  Aveb,  though  the  patterns 
show  it  not  yet. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


CHRISTIAiNT  SERVICE.  133 


I  feel  convinced  that  every  man  has  given  him  of  God  much 
more  than  he  has  any  idea  of,  and  that  he  can  help  on  the 
world's  work  more  than  he  knows  of.  What  we  want  is  the 
single  eye  that  will  see  what  our  work  is,  the  humility  to  accept 
it,  however  lowly,  the  faith  to  do  it  for  God,  the  perseverance 
to  go  on  till  death. 

—  Norman  Macleod. 

If  you  cannot  be  great,  be  willing  to  serve  God  in  that  which 
is  small.  If  you  cannot  do  great  things  for  Him,  cheerfully  do 
little  ones.  If  you  cannot  be  an  Aaron  to  serve  at  the  altar, 
or  a  Moses  to  guide  the  tribes,  consent  to  be  "  a  little  maid  " 
to  Naaman  the  Syrian,  for  the  honor  of  God's  prophets,  or  a 
little  child,  for  Christ's  sake,  to  be  set  by  Him  in  the  midst  of 
the  people,  as  an  illustration  of  the  sweetness  of  humility. 

—  S.  F.  Smith. 


God  often  works  more  by  the  life  of  the  illiterate  seeking 
the  things  that  are  God's,  than  by  the  ability  of  the  learned 
seeking  the  things  that  are  their  own. 

—  St.  Anselm. 

God  is  a  kind  Father.  He  sets  us  all  in  the  place  where  He 
wishes  us  to  be  employed;  and  that  employment  is  truly  "  our 
Father's  business."  He  chooses  work  for  every  creature  which 
will  be  delightful  to  them,  if  they  do  it  simply  and  humbly. 
He  gives  us  always  strength  enough,  and  sense  enough,  for 
what  He  wants  us  to  do ;  if  we  either  tire  ourselves,  or  puzzle 
ourselves,  it  is  our  own  fault.  And  we  may  always  be  sure, 
whatever  we  are  doing,  that  we  cannot  be  pleasing  Him,  if  we 
are  not  happy  ourselves.  — John  Ruskin. 

Live  as  with  God;  and,  whatever  be  your  calling,  pray  for 
the  gift  that  will  perfectly  qualify  you  in  it. 

—  Horace  BusHNELL. 


124  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 


A  pure,  sincere,  and  stable  spirit  is  not  distracted  though  it 

be  employed  in  many  works;  for  that  it  works  all  to  the  honor 

of  God,  and  inwardly  being  still  and  quiet,  seeks  not  itself  in 

any  thing  it  doth. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


O  Master,  let  me  walk  with  Thee 
In  lowly  paths  of  service  free ; 
Tell  me  Thy  secret ;  help  me  bear 
The  strain  of  toil,  the  fret  of  care. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


God  is   the  best  helper,  but  He  loves  to   be^ielped.     Be 

earnest  in  prayer,  but  do  not  neglect  human  means.     You  must 

help  yourself  in  all  manner  of  ways,  and  then  the  Lord  will  be 

with  you. 

- —  Savonarola. 


Christ  seeketh  your  help  in  your  place;  give  Him  your  hand. 

—  Rutherford. 


The  worst  days  of  darkness  through  which  I  have  ever  passed 
have  been  greatly  alleviated  by  throwing  myself  with  all  my 
energy  into  some  work  relating  to  others. 

—  T-  A.  Garfield. 


Let  us  imitate  Him  who  sought  the  mountain-tops  as  His 
refreshment  after  toil,  but  never  left  duties  undone  or  sufferers 
unrelieved  in  pain.  Let  us  imitate  Him  who  turned  from  the 
joys  of  contemplation  to  the  joys  of  service  without  a  murmur 
when  His  disciples  broke  in  on  His  solitude  with,  "  All  men 
seek  Thee;  "  but  never  suffered  the  outward  work  to  blunt  His 
desire  for,  nor  to  encroach  on,  the  hour  of  still  communion 
with  His  Father,     Lord,  teach  us  to  work;  Lord,  teach  us  to 

pray. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE.  135 

Your  only  safety  lies  in  placing  yourself  in  circumstances 
which  will  make  exertion  necessary,  and  which  will  secure 
Divine  assistance.  Never  mind  your  infirmities.  You  have 
nothing  to  do  with  them.  Your  business  is  to  trust,  and  to  go 
forward.  If  you  wait  till  the  sea  becomes  land,  you  will  never 
walk  on  it.  You  must  leave  the  ship,  and,  like  Peter,  set  your 
feet  upon  the  waves,  and  you  will  find  them  marble. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


Toil  on,  and  in  thy  toil  rejoice; 
For  toil  comes  rest,  for  exile,  home ; 
Soon  shalt  thou  hear  the  bridegroom's  voice. 
The  midnight  peal :     "  Behold,  I  come." 

HORATIUS  BONAR. 


When  four  rowers  are  in  a  boat,  with  their  backs  to  the  bow, 
their  simple  office  is  to  pull  the  oars.  The  steersman's  office  is 
to  look  ahead  and  work  the  helm.  The  moment  that  the 
rower  turns  steersman,  and  tries  to  look  over  his  shoulder  or 
outpull  his  fellow  oarsman,  the  boat  loses  headway.  So  you 
and  I  are  placed  with  our  backs  to  the  future.  In  our  hands 
are  the  oars  of  Christian  endeavor.  Let  God  steer  the  boat, 
and  let  us  attend  to  the  oars. 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


And  yet  the  doing  is  ours,  not  His.  He  inspired  it,  we 
wrought  it  out.  He  quickened,  but  we  brought  forth.  His 
the  heart-beat,  but  ours  the  hand-stroke;  His  the  influence, 
ours  the  effluence. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


Stand  up  from  among  the  dead,  and  patiently  work  as  one 
waiting  for  the  judgment-seat  of  Christ. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


126  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 

So,  my  brethren,  let  us  do  our  work,  that  others  entering  on 
it  may  carry  it  forward  through  after  generations.  Thus  shall 
the  work  of  the  fathers  become  the  glory  of  their  children;  and 
in  the  end,  when  the  mystery  of  God  shall  be  finished,  we  shall 
see,  in  its  completed  beauty  and  proportion,  the  great  fabric 
into  which  we  put  our  little  all;  and  we  shall  rejoice  at  once  in 
the  skill  of  the  Architect  and  the  diligence  of  the  successive 
builders. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Look  to  the  end;  and  resolve  to  make  the  service  of  Christ 
the  first  object  in  what  remains  of  life,  without  indifference  to 
the  opinion  of  your   fellow  men,  but  also  without  fear  of  it. 

H.   P.    LiDDON. 


Your  salvation  is  His  business;  make  His  service  jw/r  busi- 
ness and  delight. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


The  question  is  not  merely  what  we  can  feel^  but  what  we 
can  do  for  Christ ;  not  how  many  tears  we  can  shed,  but  how 
many  sins  we  can  mortify  ;  not  what  raptures  we  can  experi- 
ence, but  what  self-denial  we  can  practice;  not  what 
happy  frames  we  can  enjoy,  but  what  holy  duties  Ave 
can  perform ;  not  simply  how  much  we  can  luxuriate  at 
sermon  or  at  sacrament,  but  how  much  we  can  exhibit  of  the 
mind  of  Jesus  in  our  intercourse  with  our  fellow  men;  not  only 
how  far  above  earth  we  can  rise  to  the  bliss  of  heaven,  but  how 
much  of  the  love  and  purity  of  heaven  we  can  bring  down  to 
earth  ;  in  short,  -not  how  much  of  rapt  feeling  we  can  indulge, 
but  how  much  of  religious  principle  we  can  bring  to  bear  on 
our  whole  conduct. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE.  127 

"  Work  out  your  own  salvation. "  Work,  as  well  as  believe; 
and  in  the  daily  practice  of  faithful  obedience,  in  the  daily 
subjugation  of  your  own  spirits  to  His  Divine  power,  in  the 
daily  crucifixion  of  your  flesh  with  its  affections  and  lusts,  in 
the  daily  straining  after  loftier  heights  of  godliness  and  purer 
atmospheres  of  devotion  and  love, —  make  more  thoroughly 
your  own  what  you  possess.  Work  into  the  substance  of  your 
souls  that  which  you  have.  "  Apprehend  that  for  which  you 
are  apprehended  of  Christ;  "  and  remember  that  not  a  past  act 
of  faith,  but  a  present  and  continuous  life  of  loving,  faithful 
work  in  Christ,  which  is  His  and  yet  yours,  is  the  holding  fast 
the  beginning  of  your  confidence  firm  unto  the  end. 

—  Alexander  Maclarex. 


If  we  truly  feel  that  the  Lord  liveth,  before  whom  we  stand, 
we  shall  want  nothing  else  for  our  work  but  His  smile ;  and  we 
shall  feel  that  the  light  of  His  face  is  all  we  need.  That 
thought  should  deaden  our  love  for  outward  things.  How  the 
things  that  we  fever  our  souls  by  pursuing,  and  fret  our  hearts 
when  we  lose,  will  cease  to  attract !  How  small  and  vulgar 
the  "prizes  "  of  life,  as  people  call  them,  will  appear! 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


God's  very  service  is  wages;  His  ways  are  strewed  with  roses, 
and  paved  with  joy  that  is  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory,  and 
with  peace  that  passeth  understanding. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


The  sense  that  a  man  is  serving  a  Higher  than  himself,  with 
a  service  which  will  become  ever  more  and  more  perfect  free- 
dom, evokes  more  profound,  more  humbling,  more  exalted 
emotions  than  any  thing  else  in  the  world  can  do.  The  spirit 
of  man  is  an  instrument  which  cannot  give  out  its  deepest, 
finest  tones,  except  under  the  immediate  hand  of  the  Divine 
Harmonist.  —  J.  C.  Shairp. 


128  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 

A  servant  with  this  clause 

Makes  drudgery  divine; 
Who  sweeps  a  room,  as  for  Thy  laws, 

Makes  that  and  the  action  fine. 

—  George  Herbert. 


Let  us  endeavor  to  commence  every  enterprise  with  a  pure 
view  to  the  glory  of  God,  continue  it  without  distraction,  and 
finish  it  without  impatience. 

—  Fenelon. 


The  man  who  labors  to  please  his  neighbor  for  his  good  to 
edification  has  the  mind  that  was  in  Christ.  It  is  a  sinner 
trying  to  help  a  sinner.  Even  a  feeble,  but  kind  and  tender 
man,  Avill  effect  more  than  a  genius,  who  is  rough  and  artificial. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


If  the  world  is  ever  conquered  for  our  Lord,  it  is  not  by 
ministers,  nor  by  office-bearers,  nor  by  the  great,  and  noble 
and  mighty,  but  by  every  member  of  Christ's  body  being  a 
working  member;  doing  his  work  ;  filling  his  own  sphere;  hold- 
ing his  own  post;  and  saying  to  Jesus,  "Lord, what  wilt  Thou 
have  me  to  do  ?  " 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


Jesus  was  a  great  worker,  and  His  disciples  must  not  be  afraid 
of  hard  work. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


A  divine  life  is  hidden  in  every  seed  we  sow  for  Jesus.  It 
matters  not  how  small  the  seed  may  be,  nor  in  what  secluded 
part  of  the  vineyard  it  may  be  sown  —  a  prayer,  a  word,  a  look, 
a  pressure  of  the  hand  —  God's  almighty  energy  is  enfolded  in 
every  seed  which  we  sow  in  the  Master's  name  and  for  His 
glory. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


CHRISTIAN  SERVICE.  129 

I  believe  that  when  Paul  plants  and  Apollos  waters,  God 
gives  the  increase;  and  I  have  no  patience  with  those  who 
throw  the  blame  on  God  when  it  belongs  to  themselves. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


If  a  man  is  unable  to  find  the  way  to  Jesus,  he  ought  to  be 

led.     It  is  good  work  this  bringing  the  blind  to  Him  who  alone 

can  give  them  sight. 

■ — H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


When  men's  hearts  are  melted  under  the  preaching  of  the 
word,  or  by  sickness,  or  the  loss  of  friends,  believers  should 
be  very  eager  to  stamp  the  truth  upon  the  prepared  mind. 
Such  opportunities  are  to  be  seized  with  holy  eagerness. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


We  may  talk  of  the  best  means  of  doing  good;  but,  after  all, 
the  greatest  difficulty  lies  in  doing  it  in  a  proper  spirit.  Speak- 
the  truth  in  love,  "  in  meekness  instructing  those  that  oppose 
themselves" — with  the  meekness  and  gentleness  of  Christ. 

—  Nettleton. 


We  serve  Him  most  who  take  the  most 
Of  His  exhaustless  love. 

—  Alice  Cary. 


Give  me  a  faithful  heart  — 

Likness  to  Thee, 
That  each  departing  day 

Henceforth  may  see 
Some  work  of  love  begun, 
Some  deed  of  kindness  done. 
Some  wanderer  sought  and  won, 

Something  for  Thee. 

—  S.  D.  Phelps, 


130  CHRISTIAN  SERVICE. 

I  rejoice  that  the  reign  of  Christ  is  such,  while  it  thrills  the 

soul  with  emotions,  and  opens  before  the  highest  intellect   the 

most  boundless  conceptions,  we  are  left  at  the  same  time  ready, 

though  our  hearts  be  thrilled,  to  have  our  hands  filled  for  deeds 

of  benevolence  and  love.     The  happiest  moments  may  be  the 

busiest  moments. 

—  Bishop  Simpson. 


Be  ashamed  to  die  until  you   have  gained  some  victory  for 

humanity. 

—  Horace  Mann. 


The  man  who  has  given  himself  to  his  country  loves  it  better ;^ 
the  man  who  has  fought  for  his  friend  honors  him  more;  the 
man  who  has  labored  for  his  community  values  more  highly 
the  interests  he  has  sought  to  conserve  ;  the  man  who  has 
wrought  and  planned  and  endured  for  the  accomplishment  of 
God's  plan  in  the  world  sees  the  greatness  of  it,  the  divinity 
and  glory  of  it,  and  is  himself  more  perfectly  assimilated  to  it. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


Theodore  Cuyler  found  Mr.  Moody  laboring  in  a  little  base- 
ment in  the  city  of  Brooklyn.  With  him  was  a  handful  of 
pauper  children.  Cuyler  whispered  to  him,  "Dull  work 
this,  is  it  not }  "  Moody  looked  at  him  and  said,  "  Did  you  ever 
light  a  fire  ?  I  am  lighting  my  fire;  "  and  he  kindled  it  to  such 
good  purpose  that  anon  it  blazed  over  two  continents. 


Do  not  mourn  the  past,  my  brother;  it  has  given  place  to 
better  times.  Do  not  dread  the  coming  of  the  future ;  it  shall 
dawn  in  brighter  and  safer  glory.  Come,  and  upon  the  altars 
of  the  faith  be  anointed  as  the  Daniels  of  to-day,  at  once  the 
prophet  and  the  worker  —  the  brow  bright  with  the  shining 
prophecy,  the  hands  full  of  earnest  and  of  holy  deeds. 

—  AVm.  M.  Punshon. 


CHRISTIANITY.  131 


Go,  then,  young  men,  where  glory  waits  you.  The  field  is 
the  world.  Go  where  the  abjects  wander,  and  gather  them 
into  the  fold  of  the  sanctuary.  Go  to  the  lazarettos  where  the 
moral  lepers  herd,  and  tejl  them  of  the  healing  balm.  Go  to 
the  haunts  of  crime,  and  float  a  gospel  message  upon  the  fecu- 
lent air.  Go  wherever  there  are  ignorant  to  be  instructed, 
timid  to  be  cheered,  and  helpless  to  be  succored,  and  stricken 
to  be  blessed,  and  erring  to  be  reclaimed.  Go  wherever  faith 
can  see,  or  hope  can  breathe,  or  love  can  work,  or  courage  can 
venture.  Go  and  win  the  spurs  of  your  spiritual  knighthood 
there.  — Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


Our  work,  abiding,  shall  bring  to  us  the  endless  glory  with 
which  God  at  last  overpays  the  toils,  even  as  now  He  overan- 
swers  the  poor  prayers  of  His  laboring  servants. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


To-day,  let  us  rise  and  go  to  our  work.     To-morrow,   we 
shall  rise  and  go  to  our  reward. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Nay,  be  they  many,  be  they  few, 
My  thought  but  holds  the  end  in  view  ; 
And  fills  each  day's  full  measure  up 
With  service  sweet  and  patient  hope. 

—  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Brown. 


CHRISTIANITY. 

Christianity  does  not  consist  in  a  proud  priesthood,  a  costly 
church,  an  imposing  ritual,  a  fashionable  throng,  a  pealing 
organ,  loud  responses  to  the  creed,  and  reiterated  expressions 
of  reverence  for  the  name  of  Christ ;  but  in  the  spirit  of  filial 
trust  in  God,  and  ardent,  impartial,  overflowing  love  to  man. 

T.  J.   MUMFORD. 


133  CHRISTIANITY. 


Christianity  is  not  so  much  the   advent  of   a  better   doctrine 
as  of  a  perfect  character. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


If  Christianity  were  only  a  development,  then  Christ  was 
not  needed.  If  Christianity  were  only  a  scheme  of  morals, 
then  the  Divine  incarnation  was  a  thing  superfluous. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 

The  patriarchal,  the  Jewish,  and  the  Christian  dispensations, 
are  evidently  but  the  unfolding  of  one  general  plan.  In  the 
first  we  seethe  folded  bud;  in  the  second  the  expanded  leaf; 
in  the  third  the  blossom  and  the  fruit.  And  now,  how  sublime 
the  idea  of  a  religion  thus  commencing  in  the  earliest  dawn  of 
time  ;  holding  on  its  way  through  all  the  revolutions  of  king- 
doms and  the  vicissitudes  of  the  race ;  receiving  new  forms, 
but  always  identical  in  spirit ;  and,  finally,  expanding  and  em- 
bracing in  one  great  brotherhood  the  whole  family  of  man ! 
Who  can  doubt  that  such  a  religion  was  from  God  } 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Christianity  was  the  temple  that  was  to  be  eternal,  and  on  it, 
as  unconscious  builders,  men  were  laboring  in  all  the  ages  from 
the  creation. 

— -C  D.  Foss. 


In  what  consists  the  entire  of  Christianity  but  in  this, —  that 
feeling  an  utter  incapacity  to  work  out  our  own  salvation,  we 
submit  our  whole  selves,  our  hearts,  and  our  understandings,  to 
the  Divine  disposal ;  and  that,  relying  upon  God's  gracious 
assistance,  ensured  to  our  honest  endeavors  to  obtain  it, 
through  the  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  we  look  up  to  Him,  and 
to  Him  alone,  for  safety  ?  Nay,  what  is  the  very  notion  of 
religion,  but  this  humble  reliance  upon  God  ? 

—  Archbishop  Magee. 


CHRISTIANITY.  133 


The  distinction  between  Christianity  and  all  other  systems  of 
religion  consists  largely  in  this,  that  in  these  other,  men  are 
found  seeking  after  God,  while  Christianity  is  God  seeking 
after  man. 

—  Thomas  Arnold. 


Christianity  is  more  than  history  ;  it  is  also  a  system  of  truths. 
Every  event  which  its  history  records,  either  is  a  truth,  or  sug- 
gests a  truth,  or  expresses  a  truth  which  man  needs  to  assent 
to  or  to  put  into  practice. 

—  Noah  Porter. 


No,  there  is  nothing  on  the  face  of  the  earth  that  can,  for  a 
moment,  bear  a  comparison  with  Christianity  as  a  religion  for 
man.  Upon  this  the  hope  of  the  race  hangs.  From  the  very 
first,  it  took  its  position,  as  the  pillar  of  fire,  to  lead  the  race 
onward.  The  intelligence  and  power  of  the  race  are  with  those 
who  have  embraced  it ;  and  now,  if  this,  instead  of  proving 
indeed  a  pillar  of  fire  from  God,  should  be  found  but  a  delu- 
sive meteor,  then  nothing  will  be  left  to  the  race  but  to  go  back 
to  a  darkness  that  may  be  felt,  and  to  a  worse  than  Egyptian 
bondage. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Christianity  is  no  mere  scheme  of  doctrine  or  of  ethical 
practice,  but  is  instead  a  kind  of  miracle,  a  power  out  of  nature 
and  above,  descending  into  it ;  a  historically  supernatural 
movement  on  the  world,  that  is  visibly  entered  into  it,  and 
organized  to  be  an  institution  in  the  person  of  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Christianity  is,  above  all  other  religions  ever  known,  a  relig- 
ion of  sacrifice.  It  is  a  religion  founded  on  the  greatest  of  all 
sacrifices,  the  sacrifice  of  the  Incarnation,  culminating  in  the 
sacrifice  on  Calvary.  — Dean  Stanley. 


134  CHRISTIANITY. 


The  whole  of  Christianity  is  comprised  in  three  things — to 
believe,  to  love,  and  to  obey  Jesus.  These  are  things,  how- 
ever, which  we  must  be  learning  all  our  life. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Christianity  may  produce  agitation,  anger,  tumult  as  at  Ephe- 
sus;  but  the  diffusion  of  the  pure  gospel  of  Christ,  and  the 
establishment  of  the  institutions  of  honesty  and  virtue,  at  what- 
ever cost,  is  a  blessing  to  mankind. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Christianity  depends  finally  on  consciousness  and  experience. 
From  other  departments  of  the  mind  she  may  retire  at  times  or 
seem  to,  but  never  from  this.  Sitting  here,  if  allowed  to,  on 
the  throne  of  the  soul,  she  occasionally  walks  into  the  other 
rooms  and  sets  them  in  order ;  and  accustomed  to  her  presence, 
sooner  or  later  the  soul  finds  every  department  flooded  with 
her  light. 

—  E.  O.  Haven. 


Christian  faith  is  a  grand  cathedral,  with  divinely  pictured 
windows.  Standing  without  you  see  no  glory,  nor  can  possibly 
imagine  any.  Nothing  is  visible  but  the  merest  outline  of 
dusky  shapes.  Standing  within  all  is  clear  and  defined ;  every 
ray  of  light  reveals  an  army  of  unspeakable  splendors. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Christianity  is  perfect,  men  are  imperfect.  Now  a  perfect 
consequence  cannot  spring  from  an  imperfect  principle.  Chris- 
tianity, therefore,  is  not  the  work  of  man.  If  Christianity  is 
not  the  work  of  man,  it  can  have  come  from  none  but  God.  If 
it  came  from  God,  men  cannot  have  acquired  a  knowledge  of  it 
except  by  revelation.  Therefore,  Christianity  is  a  revealed 
religion. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


CHRISTIANITY.  135 


The  substance  of    all  realities  is  in  this  religion   of   Jesus 
Christ ;  but  it  can  be  real  only  to  those  who  will  do  His  will. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


Christendom,  as  an  effect,  must  be  accounted  for.     It  is  too 
large  for  a  mortal  cause. 

—  Bishop  Huntingdon. 


When  I  see  how  fragmentary  the  structure  of  religious 
knowledge  was  left  by  nature,  when  I  see  how  inadequate  all 
the  labors  of  man  had  proved  for  its  completion,  — and  when 
I  look  at  the  glorious  and  completed  dome  reared  by  Christian- 
ity, I  cannot  but  feel  that  other  than  human  hands  have  been 
employed  in  its  structure. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Go  to  Dahomey,  Ashantee,  Caffraria,  Malaisia, —  anywhere; 
search  out  the  rudest  people  on  earth ;  draw  a  picture  of  its 
vices  and  cruelties,  make  it  as  black  as  you  can  ,  and  we  will 
parallel  it  by  pictures  of  Greece  under  Pericles  and  of  Rome 
under  Cicero. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Here  is  Christianity.  Whence  came  it  ?  What  is  it  ?  It  is 
a  force  in  the  world,  a  prodigious  force.  It  has  revolutionized 
society.  It  has  lifted  man  out  of  himself.  It  has  changed  the 
face  of  the  world.  There  it  lies,  imbedded  in  more  than  eight- 
een centuries  of  human  history;  and  history  of  no  mean  sort, 
the  best  record  of  the  race. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


Christianity,  Christ,  heaven,  hell,  the  judgment,  sin,  holiness, 
God, —  these,  and  whether  they  be  true  or  false,  and  our  per- 
sonal relations  to  them,  whether  they  be  right  or  wrong,  are  things 
^0  knoiv  about,  not  to  be  doubting  or  guessing  about. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


136  CHRISTIANITY. 


Since  the  revelation  of  Christianity,  all  moral  thought  has 
been  sanctified  by  religion.  Religion  has  given  it  a  purity,  a 
solemnity,  a  sublimity,  which  even  among  the  noblest  of  the 
heathen,  we  shall  look  for  in  vain.  The  knowledge  which 
shone  only  by  fits  and  dimly  on  the  eyes  of  Socrates  and  Plato, 
"  that  rolled  in  vain  to  find  the  light,"  has  descended  over  many 
lands  into  "the  huts  where  poor  men  lie" — and  thoughts  are 
familiar  there,  beneath  the  low  and  smoky  roofs,  higher  far 
than  ever  flowed  from  the  lips  of  Grecian  sage  meditating 
among  the  magnificence  of  his  pillared  temples.  The  whole 
condition  and  character  of  the  human  being  in  Christian  coun- 
tries has  been  raised  up  to  a  loftier  elevation ;  and  he  may  be 
looked  at  in  the  face  without  a  sense  of  degradation,  even  wheii 
he  wears  the  aspect  of  poverty  and  distress.  Since  that  relig- 
ion was  given  us,  and  not  before,  has  been  felt  the  meaning  of 
that  sublime  expression,  "  The  Brotherhood  of  Man." 

—  John  Wilson. 


If  Christianity  has  really  come  from  heaven,  it  must  renew  the 
whole  life  of  man;  it  must  govern  the  life  of  nations  no  less 
than  that  of  individuals;  it  must  control  a  Christian  when  act- 
ing in  his  public  and  political  capacity  as  completely  as  when 
he  is  engaged  in  the  duties  which  belong  to  him  as  a  member 
of  a  family  circle. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 


Christianity  has  found  its  triumphs  and  shown  its  fruits  in 

every  nation   and  tribe  upon   the  globe;  and  its  results  have 

been  in  every  case  the  same.     Virtue,   social  order,  prosperity, 

blessedness,    the  elevation  and    improvement,  in  all  respects, 

of  the  human  life,  are  the  uniform  and  exclusive  inheritance  of 

those  who  receive  the  gospel. 

—  J.  H.  Seelye. 


The  entrance  of  Thy  words  giveth  light. 


CHRISTIANITY.  137 


If  ever  Christianity  appears  in  its  power,  it  is  when  it  erects 

its  trophies  upon  the  tomb ;  when  it  takes  up  its  votaries  where 

the  world  leaves  them;  and  fills  the  breast  with  immortal  hope 

in  dying  moments. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


The  greatest,  strongest,  mightiest  plea  for  the  church  of  God 
in  the  world  is  the  existence  of  the  Spirit  of  God  in  its  midst, 
and  the  works  of  the  Spirit  of  God  are  the  true  evidences  of 
Christianity.  They  say  miracles  are  withdrawn,  but  the  Holy 
Spirit  is  the  standing  miracle  of  the  church  of  God  to-day. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  strong  argument  for  the  truth  of  Christianity  is  the  true 
Christian;  the  man  filled  with  the  Spirit  of  Christ.  The  best 
proof  of  Christ's  resurrection  is  a  living  church,  which  itself  is 
walking  in  a  new  life,  and  drawing  life  from  Him  who  hath 
overcome  death. 

—  Christlieb. 


Religions  which  depend  upon  arguments  are  failures.  A  re- 
ligion, to  be  aggressive,  must  be  experimental;  men  must  be 
something  and  do  something  by  means  of  it,  which  would  be 
otherwise  impossible  ;  then  they  become  both  rhetoric  and 
logic  —  persuasion  and  proof. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler, 


I  have  been  young,  but  now  am  old.  I  have  spent  a  whole 
life-time  in  battling  against  infidelity  with  the  weapons  of  apol- 
ogetic science ;  but  I  have  become  ever  more  and  more  con- 
vinced that  the  way  to  the  heart  does  not  lie  through  the  head; 
and  that  the  only  way  to  the  conversion  of  the  head  lies 
through  a  converted  heart  which  already  tastes  the  living  fruits 
of  the  gospel. 

—  A.  Tholuck. 


138  CHRISTIANITY. 


Give  us  more  and  more  of  real  Christianity,  and  we  shall 
need  less  of  its  evidences. 


Act  upon  the  supposition   that  Christ  is  a  Divine  Teacher, 
and  you  will  soon  have  a  demonstration  of  its  truth. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


I  desire  no  other  evidence  of  the  truth  of  Christianity  than 

the  Lord's  Prayer. 

—  Madajie  De  Stael. 


Read  a  work  on  the  "  Evidences  of  Christianity,"  and  it  may 
become  highly  probable  that  Christianity,  etc.,  are  true.  This 
is  an  opinion.  Feel  God.  Do  His  will,  till  the  Absolute  Im- 
perative within  you  speaks  as  with  a  living  voice,  "  Thou  shalt, 
and  thou  shalt  not;  "  and  then  you  do  not  think,  you  knozcf 

that  there  is  a  God. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Christians  are  continually  tempted  to  do  what  all  controversy 
solicits  them  to  do;  namely,  to  argue;  as  if  their  business  was 
to  establish,  in  the  light  of  the  understanding,  certain  conclu- 
sions to  which  every  rational  person  must  assent.  But  this  is 
to  put  the  main  point,  the  attractive  action  of  God  Himself, 
out  of  the  question.  If  the  end  of  God  be  what  we  hold  it  to 
be,  to  bring  human  souls  to  Himself,  then  the  means  He 
actually  employs  must  be  living  and  spiritual.  They  are  likely 
to  be  infinitely  various  and  subtle;  but  they  will  deal  princi- 
pally with  the  conscience  and  the  affections. 

—  T-  Llewelyn  Davies. 


The  real  difficulty  with  thousands  in  the  present  day  is  not 
that  Christianity  has  been  found  wanting,  but  that  it  has  never 
been  seriously  tried. 

H.   P.  LiDDON. 


CHRISTIANITY.  139 


Personal  Christianity  is  not  a  creed,  however  orthodox;  not 
a  ritualism,  however  Scriptural;  not  a  profession,  however  out- 
wardly consistent ;  not  a  service,  however  seemingly  useful ; 
but  is  Christ  in  man. 


When  Christianity  is  received,  it  stimulates  the  faculties,  and 
calls  forth  new  ideas,  new  motives,  and  new  sentiments.  It 
has  been  the  mother  of  all  modern  education, 

—  James  McCosh. 


We  say  then,  that  Christianity  is  adapted  to  the  intellect, 
because  its  spirit  coincides  with  that  of  true  philosophy ; 
because  it  removes  the  incubus  of  sensuality  and  low  vice; 
because  of  the  place  it  gives  to  truth ;  because  it  demands  free 
inquiry;  because  its  mighty  truths  and  systems  are  brought 
before  the  mind  in  the  same  way  as  the  truths  and  systems  of 
nature;  because  it  solves  higher  problems  than  nature  can; 
and  because  it  is  so  communicated  as  to  be  adapted  to  every 
mind. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Christianity  excludes  malignity,  subdues  selfishness,  regulates 
the  passions,  subordinates  the  appetites,  quickens  the  intellect, 
exalts  the  affections.  It  promotes  industry,  honesty,  truth, 
purity,  kindness.  It  humbles  the  proud,  exalts  the  lowly,  up- 
holds law,  favors  liberty,  is  essential  to  it,  and  would  unite 
men  in  one  great  brotherhood.  It  is  the  breath  of  life  to 
social  and  civil  well-being  here,  and  spreads  the  azure  of  that 
heaven  into  whose  unfathomed  depths  the  eye  of  faith  loves  to 
look.  —  Mark  Hopkins. 


There  is  no  inevitable  connection  between  Christianity  and 
cynicism.  Truth  is  not  a  salad,  is  it,  that  you  must  always 
dress  it  with  vinegar  .' 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


140  CHRISTIANITY. 


Christianity  teaches  us  to  moderate  our  passions ;  to  temper 

our  affections  toward  all  things  below ;  to  be  thankful  for  the 

possession,    and   patient  under  loss,  whenever  He  who    gave 

shall  see  fit  to  take  away. 

—  Sir  Wm.  Temple. 


Other  sciences  may  strengthen  certain  faculties  of  the  soul ; 
some  the  intellect,  some  the  imagination,  some  the  memory ; 
but  Christianity  strengthens  the  soul  itself. 


We  are  blessed  with  a  faith,  which  calls  into  action  the  whole 
intellectual  man  ;  which  prescribes  a  reasonable  service  ;  which 
challenges  the  investigation  of  its  evidences  ;  and  which,  in  the. 
doctrine  of  immortality,  invests  the  mind  of  man  Avith  a  por- 
tion of  the  dignity  of  Divine  intelligence. 

—  Edward  Everett. 


Christ  does  not  dress  up  a  moral  picture,  and  ask  you  to 
observe  its  beauty.  He  only  tells  you  how  to  live;  and  the 
most  beautiful  characters  the  world  has  ever  seen,  have  been 
those  who  received  and  lived  these  precepts  without  once  con- 
ceiving their  beauty. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


It  awes  by  the  majesty  of  its  truths,  it  agitates  by  the  force 

of  its  compunctions,  it  penetrates  the  heart  by  the  tenderness 

of   its   appeals,   and  it  casts  over  the  abyss  of  thought,  the 

shadow  of  its  eternal  grandeur. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Christianity  alone  inspires  and  guides  progress ;  for  the  pro- 
gress of  man  is  movement  toward  God,  and  movement  toward 
God  will  ensure  a  gradual  unfolding  of   all    that  exalts  and 

adorns  man. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


CHRISTIANITY.  141 


The  introduction  of  the  Christian  religion  into  the  world 
has  produced  an  incalculable  change  in  history.  There  had 
previously  been  only  a  history  of  nations  —  there  is  now  a 
history  of  mankind;  and  the  idea  of  an  education  of  human 
nature  as  a  whole, —  an  education  the  work  of  Jesus  Christ 
Himself  —  is  become  like  a  compass  for  the  historian,  the  key 
of  history,  and  the  hope  of  nations. 

D'AUBIGNE. 


We  have  now  in  our  possession  three  instruments  of  civiliza- 
tion, unknown  to  antiquity.  These  are  the  art  of  printing; 
free  representative  government ;  and,  lastly,  a  pure  and  spirit- 
ual religion,  the  deep  fountain  of  generous  enthusiasm,  the 
mighty  spring  of  bold  and  lofty  designs,  the  great  sanctuary  of 
moral  power. 

—  Edward  Everett. 


Outside  of  Christianity  there  have  been  grand  spectacles  of 
activity  and  force,  brilliant  phenomena  of  genius  and  virtue, 
generous  attempts  at  reform,  learned  philosophical  systems, 
and  beautiful  mythological  poems,  but  no  real  profound  or 
fruitful  regeneration  of  hmnanity  and  society.  Jesus  Christ 
from  His  cross  accomplishes  what  erewhile  in  Asia  and  Europe, 
princes  and  philosophers,  the  powerful  of  the  earth,  and  sages, 
attempted  without  success.  He  changes  the  moral  and  the 
social  state  of  the  world.  He  pours  into  the  souls  of  men  new 
enlightenment  and  new  powers.  For  all  classes,  for  all  human 
conditions  He  prepares  destinies  before  His  advent  unknown. 
He  liberates  them  at  the  same  time  that  He  lays  down  rules 
for  their  guidance ;  He  quickens  them  and  stills  them.  He 
places  the  Divine  law  and  human  liberty  face  to  face,  and  yet 
still  in  harmony.  He  offers  an  effectual  remedy  for  the  evil 
which  weighs  upon  humanity;  to  sin  He  opens  the  path  of  sal- 
vation, to  unhappiness,  the  door  of  hope. 

—  GUIZOT. 


142  CHRISTIANITY. 


Look  back  to  the  cross,  and  the  disciples  gazing  on  it  in 
terror  from  afar,  and  then  look  around  on  the  nations  that  are 
influenced  by  the  faith  that  there  centres  —  and  note  the  change! 
Then  take  these  elements,  established  in  history,  and  calculate 
the  orbit  Christianity  is  to  fill, 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


There  is  no  social  life  outside  of  Christendom. 

—  Wm.  H.  Seward. 


While  Christianity  is  speaking  in  languages  more  numerous, 
by  tongues  more  eloquent,  in  nations  more  populous  than  ever 
before;  marshaling  better  troops,  with  richer  harmony;  shrink- 
ing from  no  foe,  rising  triumphant  from  every  conflict;  shaking 
down  the  towers  of  old  philosophies  that  exalt  themselves 
against  God;  making  the  steam-press  rush  under  the  demand 
for  her  Scriptures,  and  the  steam-horse  groan  under  the  weight 
of  her  charities;  emancipating  the  enslaved,  civilizing  the  law- 
less, refining  literature,  inspiring  poetry;  sending  forth  art  and 
science  no  longer  clad  in  soft  raiment  to  linger  in  king's  palaces, 
but  as  hardy  prophets  of  God  to  make  earth  bud  and  blossom 
as  the  rose;  giving  God-like  breadth  and  freedom  and  energy 
to  the  civilization  that  bears  its  name,  elevating  savage  islands 
into  civilized  states,  leading  forth  Christian  martyrs  from  the 
mountains  of  Madagascar,  turning  the  clubs  of  cannibals  into 
the  railings  of  the  altars  before  which  Fiji  savages  call  upon 
Jesus;  repeating  the  Pentecost,  "by  many  an  ancient  river  and 
many  a  palmy  plain;  "  thundering  at  the  seats  of  ancient  pa- 
ganism; sailing  all  waters,  cabling  all  oceans,  scaling  all  mount- 
ains in  the  march  of  its  might,  and  ever  enlarging  the  diameter 
of  those  circles  of  light  which  it  has  kindled  on  earth,  and 
which  will  soon  meet  in  a  universal  illumination, —  you  call  it  a 
failure!  A  little  more  such  failure,  and  we  shall  have,  over  all 
the  globe,  the  new  heavens  and  new  earth  wherein  dwelleth 
righteousness.  —  Edward  Thomson. 


CHRISTMAS  — CHURCH.  143 

Christianity  must  live  and  triumph  as  a  system  of  reform, 
because  it  goes  to  the  roots  of  things,  and,  because,  by  so  doing 
it  proves  itself  to  be  divinely  and  eternally  true. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


CHRISTMAS. 

The  church-bells  of  innumerable  sects  are  all  chime-bells  to- 
day, ringing  in  sweet  accordance  throughout  many  lands,  and 
awaking  a  great  joy  in  the  heart  of  our  common  humanity. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


The  soul  of  John  must  have  been  pervaded  by  eternal,  child- 
like, Christmas  joys. 

SCHLIERMACHER. 


I  will  honor  Christmas  in  my  heart,  and  try  to  keep  it  all  the 
year. 

—  Charles  Dickens. 


'Tis  the  season  for  kindling  the  fire  of  hospitality  in  the  hall, 
the  genial  fire  of  charity  in  the  heart. 

—  W,  Irving. 


It  is  good  to  be  children  sometimes,  and  never  better  than  at 
Christmas  when  its  mighty  Founder  was  a  child  Himself. 

—  Dickens. 


CHURCH. 

God  has  made  a  covenant  with  His  people,  has  given  Him- 
self for  their  portion,  His  Son  for  their  price.  His  Spirit  for 
their  guide  in  the  way,  His  earth  for  their  accommodation  by 
the  way,  His  angels  for  their  guard,  the  powers  of  darkness 
and  death  for  their  spoil,  everlasting  glory  for  their  crown. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


144  CHURCH. 

The  everlasting  covenant  which  God  has  made  with  Jesus, 
and  through  Jesus  with  all  His  beloved  people,  individually,  is 
a  strong  ground  of  consolation  amidst  the  tremblings  of  human 
hope,  the  fluctuations  of  creature  things,  and  the  instability  of 
all  that  earth  calls  good.  — Octavius  Winslow. 


So,  from  generation  to  generation,  the  spiritual  church  is 
rising  upwards  toward  its  perfection  ;  and,  though  one  after 
another  the  workmen  pass  away,  the  fabric  remains,  and  the 
great  Master-builder  carries  on  the  undertaking.  Be  it  ours  to 
build  in  our  portion  in  a  solid  and  substantial  manner,  so  that 
they  who  come  after  us  may  be  at  once  thankful  for  our 
thoroughness,  and  inspired  by  our  example. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


A  strong  church  is  made  up  of  well-ordered  families,  where 
intelligent.  Christian  parents  bring  up  their  children  in  the  fear 
of  the  Lord,  where  the  home  of  the  week  has  its  counterpart 
in  the  home  of  the  Sabbath,  where  the  hopes  and  joys  of  the 
living,  and  the  blessed  memories  of  the  dead  bind  to  the  Lord 
and  His  church,  where  young  men  and  maidens  are  glad  when 
it  is  said  to  them,  "Let  us  go  unto  the  house  of  the  Lord," 
where  the  tranquillity,  and  purity,  and  holy  peace,  the  light 
and  the  love,  form  to  the  opening  minds  of  the  children  a  type 
and  prophecy  of  the  eternal  Sabbath  and  the  heaven  above. 

—  John  Hall. 


I  know  that  with  consecration  on  the  part  of  believers,  sep- 
aration from  the  world,  disentanglement  from  enslaving  sins, 
and  a  mighty  baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  church  would 
become  a  conquering  power  in  the  world,  not  by  its  constructed 
theology,  not  by  its  Sabbath  services,  not  by  its  arguments  to 
convince  the  intellect,  but  by  its  simple  story  of  Jesus'  love, 
by  the  Cross,  the  Cross  —  God's  hammer,  God's  fire. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


CHURCH.  145 


One  day  of  good  preaching  is  no  match  for  six  days  of  incon- 
sistent practice.  God  will  never  honor  His  church  with  com- 
plete success  until  it  completely  honors  Him. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Depend  upon  it,  as  long  as  the  church  is  living  so  much  like 

the  world,  we  cannot  expect  our  children  to  be  brought  into 

the  fold. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


We  must  reinstate  Jesus   in  the  rightful  place  which  belongs 

to  Him   in  the  church;  or  the  church  will  soon  be  driven  into 

the  wilderness. 

—  Bishop  Clark. 


What  if  every  Christian  would  say:  "Lord,  I  want  a  revi- 
val. Let  it  begin  in  me.  Give  me  the  earnestness,  faith,  and 
tenderness  that  I  am  looking  for  in  others.  Make  me  such  a 
devoted  worker  as  I  think  my  minister  or  brother  or  sister 
ought  to  be.  Let  the  revival  begin  in  me,  and  begin  now. 
'  Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  have  me  to  do  ? '  " 

—  The  Congregationalist. 


If  the  Church  would  have  her  face  shine,  she  must  go  up 
into  the  mount,  and  be  alone  with  God.  If  "she  would  have 
her  courts  of  worship  resound  with  eucharistic  praises,  she 
must  open  her  eyes,  and  see  humanity  lying  lame  at  the  temple 
gates,  and  heal  it  in  the  miraculous  name  of  Jesus. 

—  Bishop  Huntington. 


I  think  I  speak  not  too  strongly  when  I  say  that  a  church  in 
the  land  without  the  Spirit  of  God  is  rather  a  curse  than  a 
blessing.  If  you  have  not  the  Spirit  of  God,  Christian  worker, 
remember  you  stand  in  somebody  else's  way;  you  are  a  tree 
bearing  no  fruit,  standing  where  another  fruitful  tree  might  grow, 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

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146  CHURCH. 

Congregations  must  justify  their  existence.  If  they  only 
bring  people  together  to  be  "very  much  pleased,"  why,  the 
Lecture  Bureaus  will  contract  for  all  that.  "  Did  you  worship .'' 
Were  you  edified  ?  Did  the  Lord  speak  to  you  ?  Did  you 
speak  to  Him .''  Do  you  mean  more  seriously  to  be  pure, 
honest,  upright,  generous,  manly,  holy,  from  what  you  did  and 
heard  to-day  ?  "  These  are  the  questions  which  the  best  part 
of  mankind  feel  to  be  proper,  and  to  which  we  must  have  affir- 
mative replies. 

—  John  Hall. 

The  one  injurious  and  fatal  fact  of  our  present  church  work 
is  the  barrier  between  the  churches  and  the  poorest  classes. 
The  first  thing  for  us  to  do  is  to  demolish  this  barrier.  The 
impression  is  abroad  among  the  poor  that  they  are  not  wanted 
in  the  churches.  This  impression  is  either  correct  or  incorrect. 
If  it  is  correct,  then  there  is  no  missionary  work,  for  us  who 
are  pastors,  half  so  urgent  as  the  conversion  of  our  congrega- 
tions to  Christianity.  If  it  is  incorrect,  we  are  still  guilty 
before  God  in  that  we  have  allowed  such  an  impression  to  go 
abroad ;  and  we  are  bound  to  address  ourselves,  at  once  and 
with  all  diligence,  to  the  business  of  convincing  the  poor  peo- 
ple that  they  are  wanted,  and  will  be  made  welcome  in  the 
churches. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


Let  the  church  come  to  God  in  the  strength  of  a  perfect 
weakness,  in  the  power  of  a  felt  helplessness  and  a  child-like 
confidence,  and  then,  either  she  has  no  strength,  and  has  no 
right  to  be,  or  she  has  a  strength  that  is  infinite.  Then  and 
thus,  will  she  stretch  out  the  rod  over  the  seas  of  difficulty  that 
lie  before  her,  and  the  waters  shall  divide,  and  she  shall  pass 
through,  and  sing  the  song  of  deliverance. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


CHURCH.  147 

The  health  of  a  church  depends  not  merely  on  the  creed 
which  it  professes,  not  even  on  the  wisdom  and  holiness  of  a 
few  great  ecclesiastics,  but  on  the  faith  and  virtue  of  its  indi- 
vidual members. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Do  you  recall  the  laughter  of  the  Philistines  at  the  helpless 
Sampson  ?  You  can  hear  the  echo  of  that  laughter  to-day,  as  the 
church,  shorn  of  her  strength  by  her  own  sin,  is  an  object  of 
ridicule  to  the  world,  who  cry  in  derision,  "  Where  is  your 
boasted  triumph  and  your  Millennial  glory  ? " 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


There  is  nothing  more  pitiable  than  a  soulless,  sapless, 
shriveled  church,  seeking  to  thrive  in  a  worldly  atmosphere, 
rooted  in  barren  professions,  bearing  no  fruit,  and  maintaining 
only  the  semblance  of  existence ;  such  a  church  cannot  long 
survive. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


How  long  must  the  church  live  before  it  will  learn  that 
strength  is  won  by  action,  and  success  by  work,  and  that  all 
this  immeasurable  feeding  without  action  and  work  is  a  positive 
damage  to  it  —  that  it  is  the  procurer  of  spiritual  obesity,  gout, 
and  debility. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


A  lazy,  indolent  church  tends  toward  unbelief ;  an  earnest, 
busy  church,  in  hand-to-hand  conflict  with  sin  and  misery, 
grows  stronger  in  faith. 

—  John  Hall. 


I  believe  that  the  root  of  almost  every  schism  and  heresy 
from  which  the  Christian  church  has  ever  suffered,  has  been 
the  effort  of  men  to  earn,  rather  than  to  receive,  their  salvation. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


148  CHURCH. 

Doubts  about  the  fundamentals  of  the  gospel  exist  in  certain 
churches,  I  am  told,  to  a  large  extent.  My  dear  friends,  where 
there  is  a  warm-hearted  church,  you  do  not  hear  of  them.  I 
never  saw  a  fly  light  on  a  red-hot  plate. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


What  is  the  average  type  of  a  counterfeit  church  ?  A  ham- 
mock, attached  on  one  side  to  the  cross,  and,  on  the  other,  held 
and  swung  to  and  fro  by  the  forefinger  of  Mammon;  its  freight  of 
nominal  Christians  elegantly  moaning  meanwhile  over  the  evils 
of  the  times,  and  not  at  ease  unless  fanned  by  eloquence  and 
music,  and  sprinkled  by  social  adulations  into  perfumed, 
unheroic  slumber. 

—  Joseph  Cook. 


I  never  yet  have  known  the  Spirit  of  God  to  work  where  the 

Lord's  people  were  divided. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Division  has  done  more  to  hide  Christ  from  the  view  of  men 
than  all  the  infidelity  that  has  ever  been  spoken. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


The  way  to  preserve  the  peace  of  the  church  is  to  preserve 

the  purity  of  it. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Antedating  our  history,  possessing  and  illumining  the  hearts 
of  the  founders  of  liberty  in  our  free  land,  and  constantly  exert- 
ing the  soul-equalizing  and  soul-elevating  principles  of  the 
gospel  of  Christ  as  they  fall  from  Sabbath  to  Sabbath  on  the 
masses  of  the  people,  the  Christian  church  stands  before  all 
men  as  the  pillar  and  ground  of  civil  liberty  in  the  world. 

—  W.  H,  Perrine. 


CHURCH.  149 

The  church  may  go  through  her  dark  ages,  but  Christ  is  with 
her  in  the  midnight;  she  may  pass  through  her  fiery  furnace, 
but  Christ  is  in  the  midst  of  the  flame  with  her. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Persecution  has  not  crushed  it,  power  has  not  beaten  it  back, 

time    has  not  abated  its   force,  and,  what  is    most  wonderful 

of  all,  the  abuses  and  treasons  of  its  friends  have  not  shaken 

its  stability. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Any  church  which  forsakes  the  regular  and  uniform  for  the 
periodical  and  spasmodic  service  of  God,  is  doomed  to  decay; 
any  church  which  relies  for  its  spiritual  strength  and  growth 
entirely  upon  seasons  of  "revival,"  will  very  soon  have 
no  genuine  revivals  to  rely  on.  Our  holy  God  will  not  conform 
His  blessings  to  man's  moods  and  moral  caprice.  If  a  church 
is  declining,  it  may  require  a  "  revival  "  to  restore  it;  but  what 
need  was  there  of  its  declining .'' 

T.   L.   CUYLER, 


And  this  is  the  mission  of  the  church  —  not  civilization,  but 
salvation  —  not  better  laws,  purer  legislation,  social  elevation, 
human  equality,  and  liberty,  but  first,  the  "  kingdom  of  God 
and  His  righteousness;"  regenerated  hearts,  and  all  other  things 
will  follow. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


In  the  true,  original,  catholic,  evangelical  religion  of  Jesus 
Christ,  and  in  this  alone,  all  the  divided  religions  of  Christen- 
dom find  their  union,  their  repose,  their  support.  Find  out 
His  mind.  His  character.  His  will ;  and  in  His  greatness  we 
shall  rise  above  our  littlenesses;  in  His  strength  we  shall  lose 
our  weakness;  in  His  peace  we  shall  forget  our  discord. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


150  CHURCH. 

One  family  —  we  dwell  in  Him, 

One  church  above,  beneath, 
Though  now  divided  by  the  stream, 

The  narrow  stream  of  death. 

—  Charles  Wesley, 


The  church  itself  has  got  to  go  outside  of  its  own  borders 
and  carry  the  gospel  to  every  creature,  or  it  is  no  church  of 
Christ;  and  any  mutual  improvement  club  ^yhich  thinks  that 
by  reading  its  Shakspeare,  or  by  acting  its  pretty  tableaux,  or 
by  having  this  or  that  little  reading  from  Spenser  and  from 
Chaucer,  it  is  going  to  lift  itself  up  into  any  higher  order  of 
culture  or  life,  is  wholly  mistaken,  unless  as  an  essential  part 
of  its  duty,  it  goes  out  into  the  world,  finds  those  that  are  fall- 
ing down,  and  lifts  them  up  to  the  majesty  of  freemen,  who  are 
sons  of  God. 

—  Edward  E.  Hale. 

CHURCH  (SANCTUARY). 

They  who  would  grow  in  grace,  must  love  the  habitation  of 
God's  house.  It  is  those  that  are  planted  in  the  courts  of  the 
Lord  who  shall  flourish,  and  not  those  that  are  occasionally 
there. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


When  I  go  to  the  house  of  God  I  do  not  want  amusement;  I 
want  the  doctrine  which  is  according  to  godliness.  I  want  to 
hear  the  remedy  against  the  harassing  of  my  guilt  and  the  dis- 
order of  my  affections.  I  want  to  be  led  from  weariness  and 
disappointment  to  that  goodness  which  filleth  the  hungry  soul. 
I  want  to  have  light  upon  the  mystery  of  Providence ;  to  be 
taught  how  the  judgments  of  the  Lord  are  right;  how  I  shall 
be  prepared  for  duty  and  for  trial;  how  I  may  fear  God  all 
the  days  of  my  life,  and  close  them  in  peace. 

—  John  M.  Mason. 


COMING  TO  CHRIST.  151 

It  is  better  to  have  a  plain,  substantial  building,  with  no  ex- 
travagance about  it,  but  without  a  debt,  than  to  have  the  most 
splendid  specimen  of  Gothic  architecture  that  is  overlaid  by  a 

mortgage. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


We  have  houses  of  God  built  in  defiance  of  the  laws  of  God. 
On  the  walls  of  one  of  these  monstrosities  I  saw  this  most  ap- 
propriate motto:.  "This  is  the  house  of  God;  how  dreadful  is 
this  place !  " 

—  Prof.  Sheppard. 


COMING  TO  CHRIST. 

It  is  not  to  come  in  any  particular  way,  or  with  any  particu- 
lar experience,  but  to  arise  and  come  to  your  Father,  and  say 
unto  Him,  "  Father  I  have  sinned  against  heaven  and  before 
Thee,  and  am  no  more  worthy  to  be  called  Thy  son;  make  me 
as  one  of  Thy  hired  servants." 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


When  you  do  what  the  poor  weary  dove  did  —  when  you 
just  betake  yourself  to  the  one  only  ark  for  safety,  the  infinite 
Love  will  put  forth  His  hand,  and  draw  you  in  !  Into  union 
with  Christ !  Into  renewing  grace  and  supporting  strength  ! 
Into  peace!  Oh!  wondrous  peace;  oh!  sweet,  satisfying  peace; 
oh!  peace  of  God  that  passeth  understanding  ! 

—  T.  L.  CUYLER. 


"  No  man  can  come  to  Christ  except  the  Father  draw  him." 
If  he  comes  asking,  that  proves  he  comes  drawn. 

—  C.  S.  Robinson. 


No  obstacle  can  close  the  kingdom  of  heaven  against  him 
who  desires  to  enter  it. 


153  COMING  TO  CHRIST. 


No,  there  are  no  long  stages  of  preparation  through  which 
you  must  pass;  all  things  are  now  ready;  there  is  nothing  to 
hinder  you  from  becoming  a  Christian  this  very  hour.  And,  if 
any  of  you  have  been  trying  to  make  yourself  better  until  you 
are  weary  and  discouraged  in  the  work,  all  you  have  to  do  is 
to  put  it  into  stronger  hands. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


Our  very  unworthiness  is  our  highest  preparation  for  coming 
to  Christ.  A  starving  man  can  stretch  out  his  hand,  and  receive 
the  food  that  is  offered  to  him,  just  as  well  as  the  man  who  is 
only  a  little  hungry;  and  the  greatest  sinner  can  take  of  the 
water  of  life,  just  as  well  as  the  man  who  can  say  of  all  the 
commandments  of  the  Decalogue,  "  All  these  have  I  kept  from 
my  youth  up." 

—  Henry  Darling. 


You  are  not  to  come  to  Christ  because  you  are  qualified,  but 
that  you  may  be  qualified  with  whatever  you  want;  and  the 
best  qualification  you  can  bring  is  a  deep  sense  that  you  have 
no  worth  or  excellency  at  all  in  you. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Come,  come  to  Him  who  made  thy  heart; 

Come  weary  and  oppressed; 
To  come  to  Jesus  is  thy  part; 

His  part,  to  give  thee  rest. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Christ  died  for  the  ungodly.  And  if  you  turn  to  Him  at 
this  moment  with  an  honest  heart,  and  receive  Him  simply  as 
your  Saviour  and  your  God,  I  have  the  authority  of  His  word 
for  telling  you  that  He  will  /;/  no  wise  cast  out. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


COMING  TO  CHRIST.  153 

And,  oh,  the  blessing  of  "exceeding  joy,"  after  following  in 

vain  —  after  inquiring  of  the  great  men  and  learning  nothing  — 

of  the  religious  men  and  finding  little  —  to  see  the  star  at  last 

resting  over  the  place  where   '' the  young  child"   lies  —  after 

groping    the    way  alone,  to   see  the   star  stand   still  —  to  find 

that  religion  is  a  thing  far  simpler  than  we  thought  —  that  God 

is  near  us  —  that  to  kneel  and  adore  is   the  noblest  posture  of 

the  soul. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


No  man   ever  sought   Christ  with  a  heart  to  find  Him  who 

did  not  find  Him. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


If  I  ask  Him  to  receive  me. 

Will  He  say  me  nay  ? 
Not  till  earth,  and  not  till  heaven 
Pass  away. 

—  St.  Stephen  the  Sabaite. 


Take   the   lost   sinner's  place,   and  claim   the   lost   sinner's 
Saviour. 

—  W.  P   Mackay. 


If  you  would  know  Christ  at  all,  you   must  go  to  Him  as  a 
sinful  man,  or  you  are  shut  out  from  Him  altogether. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  a  man  goes  thirsty  to  the  well,  his  thirst  is  not  allayed 
by  merely  going  there.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  increased  by 
every  step  he  goes.  It  is  by  what  he  draws  out  of  the  well  that 
his  thirst  is  satisfied.  And  just  so  it  is  not  by  the  mere  bodily 
exercise  of  waiting  upon  ordinances  that  you  will  ever  come  to 
peace,  but  by  tasting  of  Jesus  in  the  ordinances,  whose  flesh 
is  meat  indeed,  and  His  blood  drink  indeed. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


154  COMING  TO  CHRIST. 

I  saw  from  that  saying,  "  He  that  cometh  to  me  shall  never 
hunger,  and  he  that  believeth  on  me  shall  never  thirst,"  that 
believing  and  coming  was  all  one;  and  that  he  that  came,  that 
is,  that  ran  out  in  his  heart  and  affections  after  salvation  by 
Christ,  he  indeed  believed  in  Christ.  Then  the  water  stood  in 
mine  eyes,  and  I  asked  further,  "  But,  Lord,  may  such  a  great 
sinner  as  I  am,  be  indeed  accepted  of  Thee,  and  be  saved  by 
Thee  ?  "  and  I  heard  Him  say,  "  Him  that  cometh  to  me  I  will 
in  no  wise  cast  out."  Then  I  said,  "But  how,  Lord,  must  I 
consider  of  Thee  in  my  coming  to  Thee,  that  my  faith  may  be 
placed  aright  upon  Thee  ?  "  Then  He  said,  "  Christ  Jesus 
came  into  the  world  to  save  sinners."  "  He  is  the  end  of  the 
law  for  righteousness  to  every  one  that  believeth."  "  He  died 
for  our  sins,  and  rose  again  for  our  justification."  "He  loved 
us,  and  washed  us  from  our  sins  in  His  own  blood."  "  He  is 
Mediator  between  God  and  us."  "He  ever  liveth  to  make 
intercession  for  us."  From  all  which  I  gathered,  that  I  must 
look  for  righteousness  in  His  person,  and  for  satisfaction  for 
my  sins  by  His  blood;  that  what  He  did  in  obedience  to  His 
Father's  law,  and  in  submitting  to  the  penalty  thereof,  was  not 
for  Himself,  but  for  him   that  will  accept  it   for  his  salvation, 

and  be  thankful. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


You  must  take  a  house  beside  the  Physician.     It  will  be  a 
miracle  if  ye  be  the  first  sick  that  Christ  hath  put  away  uncured. 

—  Rutherford. 


We  are  to  come  to  Christ.  This  is  the  primal  duty.  The 
doctrines  are  but  highways  that  lead  to  Him.  But  when  we 
come  to  Christ  we  must  receive  Him  as  our  Saviour. 

—  D.  L.  MooDV. 


I  know  whom  I  have  believed. 

—  Bible. 


CONFESSING  CHRIST.  155 

What  right  has  a  man  to  ask  Jesus  to  forgive  him,  when  his 
heart  is  still  burning  with  hatred  or  festering  with  grudges 
against  a  fellow-creature  ?  Confession,  to  be  of  any  avail, 
must  let  go  of  its  hold  on  the  sin  confessed. 

T.   L.    CUYLER. 


Return  unto  me;  for  I  have  redeemed  thee. 


—  Bible. 


CONFESSING  CHRIST. 

There  cannot  be  a  secret  Christian.  Grace  is  like  ointment 
hid  in  the  hand;  it  betrayeth  itself.  If  you  truly  feel  the  sweet- 
ness of  the  cross  of  Christ,  you  will  be  constrained  to  confess 
Christ  before  men. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


You  are  not  so  good  a  Christian  when  you  are  neglecting  a 
plain  duty  as  when  you  are  performing  it.  And  joining  the 
church  is  a  plain  duty  for  all  who  mean  to  be  Christians. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


A  love  to  Christ  which  is  so  cowardly  and  selfish  that  it  is 
unwilling  to  proclaim  by  a  public  confession  its  faith  in  Him 
who  hung  before  all  the  world  crucified  for  sinners,  is  a  love 
which  is  hardly  worth  the  name. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


If  you  were  good  enough,  there  would  be  no  need  of  con- 
fessing Christ  at  all.  It  is  just  because  you  are  not  good 
enough,  that  Christ  says  to  you,  "  Follow  me."  He  came  not 
to  call  the  righteous,  but  sinners  to  repentance.  It  is  not  the 
perfect  people  whom  He  wants  in  His  church,  but  those  who 
have  a  deep  sense  of  their  own  imperfection,  and  who  believe 
that  His  strength  is  made  perfect  in  weakness. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


156  CONSCIENCE. 


What  we  want,  above  all  things,  in  this  age  is  heartiness  and 
holy  simplicity;  men  who  justify  the  holy  impulse  of  grace  in 
their  hearts,  and  do  not  keep  it  back  by  artificial  clogs  of  pru- 
dence and  false  fear,  or  the  sham  pretences  of  fastidiousness 
and  artificial  delicacy.  These  are  they  whom  God  will  make 
His  witnesses  in  all  ages.  They  dare  to  be  holy,  dare  just  as 
readily  to  be  singular.  What  God  puts  in  them,  that  they  ac- 
cept; and  when  He  puts  a  song,  they  sing  it.  They  know  Christ 
inwardly,  and  therefore  stand  for  Him  outwardly.  They  en- 
dure hardships.  They  fight  a  fight.  And  these  are  the  souls, 
my  brethren,  who  will  stand  before  God  accepted. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


CONSCIENCE. 

Conscience  is  God's  vicegerent  in  the  soul. 


BUCHAN. 


It  is  quite  certain  that,  if  from  childhood  men  were  to  begin 
to  follow  the  first  intimations  of  conscience,  honestly  to  obey 
them  and  carry  them  out  into  act,  the  power  of  conscience 
would  be  so  strengthened  and  improved  within  them,  that  it 
would  soon  become,  what  it  evidently  is  intended  to  be,  "a 
connecting  principle  between  the  creature  and  the  Creator." 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


Conscience  is  that  peculiar  faculty  of  the  soul  which  may  be 
called  the  religious  instinct. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


Every  one  of  us,  whatever  his  speculative  opinions,  knows 

better  than  he  practices,  and  recognizes  a  better  law  than  he 

obeys. 

—  Iames  a.  Froude. 


CONSCIENCE.  157 


There  is  in  man  a  conscience  which  outlives  the  sensations, 
resolutions,  and  emotions  of  the  hour,  and  rises  above  them  all. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


We  never  do  evil  so  effectually  as  when  we  are  led  to  do  it 

by  a  false  principle  of  conscience. 

—  Pascal. 


A  good  conscience  is  the  palace  of  Christ  ;  the  temple  of  the 

Holy  Ghost;  the  paradise  of  delight;  the  standing  Sabbath  of 

the  saints. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Trust  that  man  in  nothing,   who  has    not  a  conscience  in 
every  thing. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 


Be  fearful  only  of  thyself,  and  stand  in  awe  of  none   more 

than  thine  own  conscience. 

—  Burton. 


The  voice  of  conscience  is  so  delicate  that  it  is  easy  to  stifle 
it;  but  it  is  also  so  clear  that  it  is  impossible  to  mistake  it. 

—  Madame  de  Stael. 


Labor  to  keep  alive  in  your  breast  that  little  spark  of  celes- 
tial fire,  called  conscience. 

—  George  Washington. 


There  is  no  evil  which  we  cannot  face  or  fly  from  but  the 

consciousness  of  duty  disregarded. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


The  torture  of  a  bad  conscience  is  the  hell  of  a  living  soul. 

—  Calvin. 


158  CONSECRATION. 


An  old  historian  says  about  the  Roman  armies  that  marched 
through  a  country,  burning  and  destroying  every  living  thing, 
"They  make  a  solitude,  and  they  call  it  peace."  And  so  men  do 
with  their  consciences.  They  stifle  them,  sear  them,  forcibly 
silence  them,  somehow  or  other;  and  then,  when  there  is  a  dead 
stillness  in  the  heart,  broken  by  no  voice  of  either  approbation 
or  blame,  but  doleful,  like  the  unnatural  quiet  of  a  deserted 
city,  then  they  say,  "It  is  peace;"  and  the  mian's  uncontrolled 
passions  and  unbridled  desires  dwell  solitary  in  the  fortress  of 
his  own  spirit !     You  may  almost  attain  to  that. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


CONSECRATION. 

Take  me,  O  my  Father,  take  me! 

Take  me,  save  me,  through  Thy  Son; 
That  which  Thou  wouldst  have  me,  make  me, 

Let  Thy  will  in  me  be  done. 
Long  from  Thee  my  footsteps  straying, 

Thorny  proved  the  way  I  trod; 

Weary  come  I  now,  and  praying  — 

Take  me  to  Thy  love,  my  God  ! 

—  Ray  Palmer. 


See  that  you  receive  Christ  luith  all  your  heart.     As  there  is 

nothing  in  Christ  that  may  be  refused,  so  there  is  nothing  in 

you  from  which  He  must  be  excluded. 

—  John  Flavel. 


If  you  want  to  live  in  this  world,  doing  the  duty  of  life,  know- 
ing the  blessings  of  it,  doing  your  work  heartily,  and  yet  not 
absorbed  by  it,  remember  that  the  one  power  whereby  you  can 
so  act  is,  that  all  shall  be  consecrated  to  Christ,  and  done  for 

His  sake, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


CONSECRATION.  159 


God  consecrates  us  with  His  Spirit;  whom  He  adopts,  He 

anoints;    whom  He  makes  sons,   He  makes  saints;   He  doth 

not  only  give  them  a  new  name,  but  a  new  nature.     God  turns 

the  wolf  into  a  lamb;  He  makes  theJieart  humble  and  gracious; 

He  works  such  a  change  as  if  another  soul  did   dwell  in  the 

same  body. 

—  T.  Watson. 


Teach  us.  Master,  how  to  give 
All  we  have  and  are  to  Thee; 

Grant  us.  Saviour,  while  we  live. 
Wholly,  only  Thine  to  be. 


—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


Live,  as  it  were,  on  trust.  All  that  is  in  you,  all  that  you  are, 
is  only  loaned  to  you;  make  use  of  it  according  to  the  will  of 
Him  who  lends  it;  but  never  regard  it  for  a  moment  as  your 
own. 

—  Fenelon. 


Seek  to  make  life  henceforth  a  consecrated  thing;  that  so, 

when  the  sunset  is  nearing,  with  its  murky  vapors  and  lowering 

skies,  the  very  clouds  of  sorrow   may  be  fringed  with   golden 

light.     Thus  will  the  song  in  the  house  of  your  pilgrimage  be 

always  the  truest  harmony.     It  will  be  composed  of  no  jarring, 

discordant  notes;  but  with  all  its  varied  tones  will  form  one 

sustained,  life-long  melody;  dropped  for  a  moment  in  death, 

only  to  be   resumed   with  the   angels,  and  blended  wuth   the 

everlasting  cadences  of  your  Father's  house. 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


Ah,  my  friends,  it  is  not  only  from  the  study  walls  of  pastors, 
but  from  the  walls  of  every  shop,  every  counting-room,  and 
every  hall  of  justice  and  legislation,  that  the  countenance  of 
the  all-holy  Jesus  is  looking  down,  and  saying,  ""  Do  all  for  me." 

—  T.  L.  CUYLER. 


160  CONTEMPT. 


Living  or  dying,  Lord, 

I  ask  but  to  be  Thine; 
My  life  in  Thee,  Thy  life  in  me. 

Makes  heaven  forever  mine. 

—  Henry  Harbaugh. 


CONTEMPT. 


The  spirit  of  contempt  is  the  true  spirit  of  Antichrist;  for 
no  other  is  more  directly  opposed  to  Christ, 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Christ  saw  much  in  this  world  to  weep  over,  and  much  to 
pray  over;  but  He  saw  nothing  in  it  to  look  upon  with  con- 
tempt. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


There  is  no  room  in  the  universe  for  the  least  contempt  or 
pride;  but  only  for  a  gentle  and  a  reverent  heart. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Nothing  is  so  contemptible  as  habitual  contempt.  It  is  im- 
possible to  remain  long  under  its  control  without  being  dwarfed 
by  its  influence. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Ah,  there  is  nothing  more  beautiful  than  the  difference  be- 
tween the  thought  about  sinful  creatures  which  is  natural  to  a 
holy  being,  and  the  thought  about  sinful  creatures  which  is 
natural  to  a  self-righteous  being.  The  one  is  all  contempt; 
the  other,  all  pity, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Contempt  leaves  a  deeper  scar  than  anger. 


CONTENTxMENT.  161 


CONTENTMENT. 

Contentment  is  natural  wealth;  luxury,  artificial  poverty. 

—  Socrates. 


True  contentment  depends  not  upon  what  we  have ;  a  tub 
was  large  enough  for  Diogenes,  but  a  world  was  too  little  for 
Alexander. 

C.   C.   COLTON. 


There  are  two  sorts  of  content ;  one  is  connected  with  exer- 
tion, the  other  with  habits  of  indolence.  The  first  is  a  virtue; 
the  other,  a  vice. 

'  — Mrs.  Maria  Edgeworth. 


We  cannot  be  young  twice ;  we  cannot  turn  upon  our  steps, 
and  go  back  to  gather  the  garlands  we  gathered  ten  years  ago. 
And,  therefore,  with  a  gaze  over  on  the  cross  upon  the  distant 
hills,  and  a  remembrance  always  of  the  shadow  land  that  lies 
beyond,  let  us  endeavor  to  be  contented  with  small  things,  and 
to  make  ourselves  happy  in  the  pleasantness  of  simple  pleasures. 

—  Holme  Lee. 


My  God,  give  me  neither  poverty  nor  riches;  but  whatsoever 
it  may  be  Thy  will  to  give,  give  me  with  it  a  heart  which  knows 
humbly  to  acquiesce  in  what  is  Thy  will. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Come  calm  content  serene  and  sweet, 
O  gently  guide  my  pilgrim  feet 
To  find  thy  hermit  cell. 

—  A.  L.  Barbauld. 


I  have  learned  in  whatsoever  state  I  am  therewith  to  be  con- 
tent. —  Bible. 


162  CONTROVERSY  —  CONVERSION. 


CONTROVERSY. 

When  men  differ  in  any  matter  of  belief,  let  them  meet  each 
other  manfully. 

—  F.  Wayland. 


No  great  advance  has  ever  been  made  in  science,  politics,  or 
religion,  without  controversy. 

—  Lyman  Beecher. 


It  is  humbling  to  mankind  to  contemplate  men  capable  of 
grasping  eternal  truths,  fencing  and  debating  in  trivialities,  like- 
gladiators  fighting  with  flies. 

M.   NiSARD. 


Doubtless   there    are   times    when    controversy  becomes    a 
necessary  evil.     But  let  us  remember  that  it  is  an  evil. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


CONVERSION. 

Conversion  is  the  act  of  joining  our  hands  to  the  pierced 
hand  of  the  crucified  Saviour.  The  new  life  begins  with  the 
taking  of  Christ's  hand,  and  His  taking  hold,  in  infinite  love, 
of  our  weak  hands. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


A  man  to  be  converted  has  to  give  up  his  will,  his  ways,  and 

his  thoughts. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  time  when  I  was  converted  was  when  religion  became 

no  longer  a  duty,  but  a  pleasure. 

—  Prof.  Lincoln. 


CONVERSION.  163 


In  every  sound  convert  the  judgment  is  brought  to  approve 
of  the  laws  and  ways  of  Christ,  and  subscribe  to  them  as  most 
righteous  and  reasonable;  the  desire  of  the  heart  is  to  know 
the  whole  mind  of  Christ;  the  free  and  resolved  choice  of  the 
heart  is  determined  for  the  ways  of  Christ,  before  all  the  pleas- 
ures of  sin,  and  prosperities  of  the  world;  it  is  the  daily  care  of 
his  life  to  walk  with  God. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  have  me  to  do  ? 

—  Bible. 


Conversion  is  not,  as  some  suppose,  a  violent  opening  of  the 
heart  by  grace,  in  which  will,  reason,  and  judgment  are  all 
ignored  or  crushed.  The  reason  is  not  blinded,  but  enlightened  ; 
and  the  whole  man  is  made  to  act  with  a  glorious  liberty  which 
it  never  knew  till  it  fell  under  the  restraints  of  grace. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


My  observation  continues  to  confirm  me  more  and  more  in 
the  opinion,  that  to  experience  religion  is  to  experience  the 
truth  of  the  great  doctrines  of  Divine  grace. 

— IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Conversion  by  the  Holy  Spirit  is  a  spiritual  illumination  of 
the  soul.  God's  grace  lights  up  the  dark  heart.  And  when  a 
man  has  once  been  kindled  at  the  cross  of  Christ,  he  is  bound 
to  shine. 

T.    L.   CUYLER. 


This  is  always  the  way  in  which  the  reality  of  Christian  con- 
version evidences  itself.  It  makes  the  selfish  man  charitable; 
the  churlish,  liberal ;  and  implants  in  the  soul,  which  hitherto 
has  cared  only  for  the  things  belonging  to  himself,  a  disposition 
to  seek  also  the  things  of  others. 

—  William  Adams. 


164  '  CONVICTION. 


The  evidence  of  our  acceptance  in  the  Beloved  rises  in  pro- 
portion to  our  love,  to  our  repentance,  to  our  humility,  to  our 
faith,  to  our  self-denial,  to  our  delight  in  duty.  Other  evidence 
than  this  the  Bible  knows  not  —  God  has  not  given. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


"Follow  me!"  The  publican  "rose  up."  This  implies 
immediate  action.  It  was  now  or  never  with  him.  So  you 
must  act  with  prompt  obedience.  He  did  the  first  thing  Jesus 
bade  him  do.  Are  you  willing  to  do  as  much?  If  not,  you  are 
deciding  against  Christ,  and  that  means  death. 

T.   L.  CUYLER. 


Every  man  or  woman  who  turns  to  Christ  must  bear  in  mind 
that  they  are  breaking  with  their  old  master,  and  enlisting 
under  a  new  leader.     Conversion  is  a  revolutionary  process. 

T.  L.    CUYLER. 


You  cannot  find,  I  believe,  a  case  in  the  Bible  where  a  man 
is  converted  without  God's  calling  in  some  human  agency  — 
using  some  human  instrument. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


CONVICTION. 

No  man  ever  truly  believed,  who  was  not  first  made  sensible 
of  unbelief. 


True  conviction  of  sin  —  how  difficult  it  is,  when  its  appear- 
ances and  modes  of  life  are  so  fair,  when  it  twines  itself  so 
cunningly  about,  or  creeps  so  insidiously  into,  our  amiable  qual- 
ities, and  sets  off  its  internal  disorders  by  so  many  outward 
charms  and  attractions. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


COURAGE.  ^  165 


It  is  no  certain  evidence,  that  because  the  conscience  feels 
the  weight  of  sin,  the  heart  is  humbled  on  account  of  it;  that 
because  the  conscience  approves  of  the  rectitude  of  the  Divine 
justice,  the  heart  bows  to  the  Divine  sovereignty.  The  most 
powerful  conviction  of  sin,  therefore,  is  not  conclusive  evidence 
of  Christian  character. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


To  remember  that  once  we  were  near  the  salvation  of  Christ, 
so  near  that  our  right  hand  might  have  touched  and  taken  it, 
and  after  all  that  hand  was  withheld;  this  is  a  memory  which 
will  enhance  remorse  forever. 

—  William  Adams. 


COURAGE. 

My  dear  friend,  venture  to  take  the  wind   on  your  face  for 
Christ. 

—  Rutherford. 


In  the  whole  range  of  earthly  experience,  no  quality  is  more 
attractive  and  ennobling  than  moral  courage.  Like  that  moun- 
tain of  rock  which  towers  aloft  in  the  Irish  Sea,  the  man  pos- 
sessed of  this  principle  is  unmoved  by  the  swelling  surges 
which  fret  and  fume  at  his  feet.  And  yet,  unlike  that  same 
Ailsa  Craig,  he  is  sensitive  beyond  measure  to  every  adverse 
influence — battling  against  it,  and  triumphing  over  it  by  a  power 
which  proceeds  from  God's  throne,  and  pervades  his  entire 
being. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


Be  courageous.      Be  independent.     Only  remember  where 
the  true  courage  and  independence  come  from. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


166  COURAGE. 


What  we  want  is  men  with  a  Httle  courage  to  stand  up  for 
Christ.  When  Christianity  wakes  up,  and  every  child  that  be- 
longs to  the  Lord  is  willing  to  speak  for  Him,  is  willing  to  work 
for  Him,  and,  if  need  be,  willing  to  die  for  Him,  then  Chris- 
tianity will  advance,  and  we  shall  see  the  work  of  the  Lord 
prosper. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Consult  the  honor  of  religion  more,  and  your  personal  safety 
less.  Is  it  for  the  honor  of  religion  (think  you)  that  Christians 
should  be  as  timorous  as  hares  to  start  at  every  sound  ? 

—  John  Flavel. 

To  do  an  evil  action  is  base ;  to  do  a  good  action  without 
incurring  danger  is  common  enough;  but  it  is  the  part  of  a  good 
man  to  do  great  and  noble  deeds,  though  he  risks  every 
thing. 

—  Plutarch. 


There  is  a  contemptibly  quiet  path  for  all  those  who  are 
afraid  of  the  blows  and  clamor  of  opposing  forces.  There  is 
no  honorable  fighting  for  a  man  who  is  not  ready  to  forget  that 
he  has  a  head  to  be  battered  and  a  name  to  be  bespattered. 
Truth  wants  no  champion  who  is  not  as  ready  to  be  struck  as 
to  strike  for  her. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


The  best  hearts  are  ever  the  bravest. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 


This  is  the  way  to  cultivate  courage:  First,  by  standing  firm 
on  some  conscientious  principle,  some  law  of  duty.  Next,  by 
being  faithful  to  truth  and  right  on  small  occasions  and  com- 
mon events.     Third,  by  trusting  in  God  for  help  and  power. 

—  James  F.  Clarke. 


COVETOUSNESS.  167 


Conscience  in  the  soul  is  the  root  of  all  true  courage.     If  a 
man  would  be  brave,  let  him  learn  to  obey  his  conscience. 

—  James  F.  Clarke. 


Whenever  you   do  what  is  holy,  be  of  good  cheer,  knowing 
that  God  Himself  takes  part  with  rightful  courage. 

—  Menander. 


COVETOUSNESS. 

Of  covetousness,  we  may  truly  say  that  it  makes  both  the 
Alpha  and  Omega  in  the  devil's  alphabet,  and  that  it  is  the 
first  vice  in  corrupt  nature  which  moves,  and  the  last  which 
dies. 

—  South, 


The  covetous  man  is  like  a  camel  with  a  great  hunch  on  his 
back;  heaven's  gate  must  be  made  higher  and  broader,  or  he  will 
hardly  get  in. 

—  Thomas  Adams. 


The  covetous  person   lives  as  if  the  world  were  made  alto- 
gether for  him,  and  not  he  for  the  world. 

—  South. 


The  covetous  man  heaps  up  riches,  not  to  enjoy  them,  but  to 
have  them. 

TiLLOTSON. 


The  only  sovereign  remedy  is  to  give  Christ  the  pre-emi- 
nence in  our  hearts;  for  then  we  shall  undervalue  all  temporal 
things  in  comparison  of  Him. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


If  any  man  love  the  world,  the  love  of  the  Father  is  not  in 
him. 


168  CRITICIS'M— CROSS  BEARING. 

CRITICISM. 

Grant  me  patience,  just  Heaven  !  Of  all  the  cants  which  are 
canted  in  this  canting  world  —  though  the  cant  of  hypocrites 
may  be  the  worst  —  the  cant  of  criticism  is  the  most  tormenting. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 


Criticism  is  not  religion,  and  by  no  process  can  it  be  substi- 
tuted for  it.  It  is  not  the  critic's  eye,  but  the  child's  heart, 
that  most  truly  discerns  the  countenance  that  looks  out  from 
the  pages  of  the  gospel.  —  J.  C.  Shairp. 


Why  will  you  be  always  sallying  out  to  break  lances  with 
other  people's  wind-mills,  when  your  own  is  not  capable  of 
grinding  corn  for  the  horse  you  ride  } 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


An  over-readiness  to  criticise  or  to  depreciate  a  minister  of 
Christ  is  proof  of  a  lack  of  devotion  to  Christ. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


How  many  people  would  like  to  get  up  in  a  social  prayer- 
meeting  to  say  a  few  words  for  Christ,  but  there  is  such  a  cold 
spirit  of  criticism  in  the  church  that  they  dare  not  do  it. 


With  pleasure  own  your  errors  past. 
And  make  each  day  a  critic  on  the  last. 


CROSS  BEARING. 
Taking  up  one's  cross,  my  dear,  means  simply  that  you  are 
to  go  the  road  which  you  see  to  be  the  straight  one ;  carrying 
whatever  you  find  is  given  you  to  carry,  as  well  and  stoutly  as 
you  can;  without  making  faces,  or  calling  people  to  come  and 
look  at  you.  Above  all,  you  are  neither  to  load,  nor  unload 
yourself,  nor  cut  your  cross  to  your  own  liking. 


CROSS  BEARING.  169 


A  cross  borne  in  simplicity,  without  the  interference  of  self- 
love  to  augment  it,  is  only  half  a  cross.  Suffering  in  this  sim- 
plicity of  love,  we  are  not  only  happy  in  spite  of  the  cross,  but 
because  of  it;  for  love  is  pleased  in  suffering  for  the  Well  Be- 
loved, and  the  cross  which  forms  us  into  His  image  is  a  con- 
soling bond  of  love. 

—  Fenelon. 


And  now  my  cross  is  all  supported,  — 

Part  on  my  Lord,  and  part  on  me; 

But  as  He  is  so  much  the  stronger. 

He  seems  to  bear  it  —  I  go  free. 

—  Anna  Warner. 


To  deny  one's  self,  to  take  up  the  cross,  denotes  something 
immeasurably  grander  than  self-imposed  penance  or  rigid  con- 
formity to  a  Divine  statute.  It  is  the  surrender  of  self  to  an 
ennobling  work,  an  absolute  subordination  of  personal  advan- 
tages and  of  personal  pleasures  for  the  sake  of  truth  and  the 
welfare  of  others,  and  a  willing  acceptance  of  every  disability 
which  their  interests  may  entail. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


Losses  and   crosses  are  heavy  to  bear;  but  when  our  hearts 
are  right  with  God,  it  is  wonderful  how  easy  the  yoke  becomes. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


To  do  Thy  holy  will; 

To  bear  Thy  cross; 
To  trust  Thy  mercy  still, 

In  pain  or  loss; 
Poor  gifts  are  these  to  bring, 

Dear  Lord,  to  Thee, 

Who  hast  done  every  thing 

For  me  ! 

—  George  Coopei 


170  CROSS  BEARING. 


If  Jesus  bore  the  cross,  and  died  on  it  for  me,  ought  I  not  to 
be  wilHng  to  take  it  up  for  Him  ? 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


We  must  bear  our  crosses;  self  is  the  greatest  of  them  all. 
If  we  die  in  part  every  day  of  our  lives,  we  shall  have  but  little 
to  do  on  the  last.  O  how  utterly  will  these  little  daily  deaths 
destroy  the  power  of  the  final  dying  ! 

—  Fenelon. 


All  you  have  really  to  do  is  to  keep  your  back  as  straight  as 
you  can;  and  not  think  about  what  is  upon  it.  The  real  and 
essential  meaning  of  "  virtue  "  is  that  straightness  of  back. 

•  — John  Ruskin. 

Thou,  Everlasting  Strength,  hast  set  Thyself  forth  to  bear 

our  burdens.     May  we  bear  Thy  cross,  and  bearing  that,  find 

there  is  nothing  else  to  bear ;  and  touching  that  cross,  find  that 

instead  of  taking  away  our  strength,  it  adds  thereto.      Give  us 

faith  for  darkness,   for  trouble,  for  sorrow,  for  bereavement, 

for  disappointment;  give  us  a  faith  that  will  abide  though  the 

earth  itself  should   pass   away  —  a  faith  for  living,  a  faith  for 

dying. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Dear  Lord,  forgive  my  sinful,  foolish  fears 

And  give  me  daily,  strengthening  grace,  I  pray. 

And  one  thing  more  I  ask  with  humble  tears. 
Take  not  my  cross  away  ! 

—  Susan  O.  Curtis. 


There  is  an  immeasurable  distance  between  submission  to 
the  cross  and  acceptance  of  it. 

—  Charlotte  Elizabeth  ToNNA. 


CROSS  OF  CHRIST.  171 

Weak  Christians  are  afraid  of  the  shadow  of  the  cross. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


The  cross  is  not  only  imposed  upon  the  saints  as  their  bur- 
den, but  bequeathed  unto  them  as  their  legacy.  It  is  given 
unto  them  as  an  honor  and  privilege. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


Welcome,  welcome,  cross  of  Christ,  if  Christ  be  with  it. 

—  Rutherford. 


How  soon  would  faith  freeze  without  a  cross  ! 

—  Rutherford. 


CROSS  OF  CHRIST. 
In  the  cross  of  Christ  I  glory. 

Towering  o'er  the  wrecks  of  time; 
All  the  light  of  sacred  story 

Gathers  round  its  head  sublime. 

—  John  Bowring. 


The  cross  is  the  centre  of  the  world's  history;  the  incarna- 
tion of  Christ  and  the  crucifixion  of  our  Lord  are  the  pivot 
round  which  all  the  events  of  the  ages  revolve.  The  testimony 
of  Christ  was  the  spirit  of  prophecy,  and  the  growing  power  of 
Jesus  is  the  spirit  of  history. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


And  how  high  is  Christ's  cross  ?  As  high  as  the  highest 
heaven,  and  the  throne  of  God,  and  the  bosom  of  the  Father 
—  that  bosom  out  of  which  forever  proceed  all  created  things. 
Ay,  as  high  as  the  highest  heaven  !  for  —  if  you  will  receive 
it  —  when  Christ  hung  upon  the  cross,  heaven  came  down  on 
earth,  and  earth  ascended  into  heaven. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


172  CROSS  OF  CHRIST. 

There  under  the  cross  is  the  sinner's  sanctuary  —  there,  my 
friend,  is  the  place  for  you  and  me.  The  first  smiling  look  we 
shall  get  from  God  will  be  when  looking  unto  Jesus ;  and  the 
first  time  that  we  shall  experience  the  alacrity  of  a  lightened 
conscience,  the  relief  and  elasticity  of  the  great  life-burden 
lifted  off,  will  be  when  we  have  laid  our  sins  on  the  Lamb 
of  God.  — James  Hamilton. 


On  the  cross  of  Christ  relying, 

Through  His  death  redeemed  from  dying, 

By  His  favor  fortified; 
When  my  mortal  frame  is  perished, 
Let  my  spirit  then  be  cherished 

And  in  heaven  be  glorified. 

—  Jacobus  de  Benedictis. 


Nothing  but  the  cross  of  Christ  can  so  startle  the  spiritual 
nature  from  its  torpor,  as  to  make  it  an  effectual  counterpoise 
to  the  debasing  and  sensual  tendencies  of  the  race.  Favored 
by  temperament  and  education,  individuals  may  measurably 
escape;  but  if  the  race  is  to  triumph  in  the  conflict  between  the 
flesh  and  the  spirit,  between  the  lower  propensities  and  the 
higher  nature,  they  must,  as  Constantine  is  said  to  have  done, 
see  the  cross,  and  on  it  the  motto,  " ///  hoc  signo  viuces."  By 
this  sign  we  conquer.  —  Mark  Hopkins. 


At  the  foot  of  the  cross,  in  all  humility  and  in  all  adoration, 
we  have  learned  at  once  the  depth  and  the  height  of  human 
nature;  we  have  learned  to  think  all  wisdom  but  foolishness 
for  the  knowledge  of  Christ;  all  purity  but  sin,  unwashed  by 
His  atonement ;  all  hope  in  earth,  of  all  hopes  the  most  miser- 
able, but  in  the  faith  of  His  most  blessed  resurrection;  content 
to  bear  the  struggles  of  life,  at  His  command ;  and  submitting 
to  the  grave,  with  a  consciousness  that  it  can  sting  no  more. 

—  George  Croly. 


DEATH.  173 

When  to  the  cross  I  turn  my  eyes, 

And  rest  on  Calvary, 
O  Lamb  of  God,  my  sacrifice, 

I  must  remember  Thee. 

—  James  Montgomery. 


My  friends,  there  is  one  spot  on  earth  where  the  fear  of 
Death,  of  Sin,  and  of  Judgment,  need  never  trouble  us,  the 
only  safe  spot  on  earth  where  the  sinner  can  stand  —  Cal- 
vary. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


He  who  tears  down  the  cross,  what  is  there  left  to  lift  him  to 
heaven?  The  church  claiming  to  be  a  Christian  church  is 
false  to  the  title,  if  she  make  the  cross  of  Christ  of  none  effect. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 

Lord,  as  to  Thy  dear  cross  we  flee 

And  pray  to  be  forgiven. 
So  let  Thy  life  our  pattern  be. 

And  form  our  souls  for  heaven. 

—  J.   H.  GURNEV. 


O,  cross  of  my  bleeding  Lord,  may  I  meditate  on  thee  more, 
may  I  feel  thee  more,  may  I  resolve  to  know  nothing  but  thee. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


D. 

DEATH. 

One  may  live  as  a  conqueror,  a  king,  or  a  magistrate  ;  but 
he  must  die  as  a  man. 

—  Daniel  Webster, 


174  DEATH. 

My  friend,  there  will  come  one  day  to  you  a  Messenger, 
whom  you  cannot  treat  with  contempt.  He  will  say,  "  Come 
with  me;  "  and  all  your  pleas  of  business  cares  and  earthly  loves 
will  be  of  no  avail.  When  his  cold  hand  touches  yours,  the 
key  of  the  counting-room  will  drop  forever,  and  he  will  lead 
you  away  from  all  your  investments,  your  speculations,  your 
bank-notes  and  real  estate,  and  with  him  you  will  pass  into 
eternity,  up  to  the  bar  of  God.  You  will  not  be  too  busy  to 
die. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


God's  finger  touched  him,  and  he  slept. 

—  Tennyson. 


O  eloquent,  just,  and  mighty  Death  !  whom  none  could  ad- 
vise, thou  hast  persuaded;  what  none  hath  dared,  thou  hast 
done;  and  whom  all  the  world  hath  flattered,  thou  only  hast 
cast  out  of  the  world  and  despised;  thou  hast  drawn  together 
all  the  far-stretched  greatness,  all  the  pride,  cruelty,  and  ambi- 
tion of  men,  and  covered  them  all  over  with  these  two  narrow 

words,  "  Hie  jacet." 

—  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 


What  a  power  has  Death  to  awe  and  hush  the  voices  of  this 
earth  !  How  mute  we  stand  when  that  presence  confronts  us, 
and  we  look  upon  the  silence  he  has  wrought  in  a  human  life  ! 
We  can  only  gaze,  and  bow  our  heads,  and  creep  with  our 
broken,  stammering  utterances  under  the  shelter  of  some  great 
word  which  God  has  spoken,  and  in  which  we  see  through  the 
history  of  human  sorrow  the  outstretching  and  overshadowing  of 
the  eternal  arms. 

—  W.  W.  Battershall. 


Look  forward  a  little  further  to  the  period  when  all  the  noise 
and  tumult  and  business  of  this  world  shall  have  closed  forever. 

—  J.  G.  Pike. 


DEATH.  175 

We  shall  be  in  the  midst  of  some  great  work,  when  the  tools 
shall  drop  from  our  relaxing  fingers,  and  we  shall  work  no 
more;  we  shall  be  planning  some  mighty  project  —  house,  busi- 
ness, society,  book  —  when  in  one  shattering  moment  all  our 
thoughts  shall  perish.  Life  shall  seem  strong  in  us  when  we 
shall  find  that  it  is  done.  Oh,  how  happy  they  to  whom  all 
that  remains  is  immortality;  happy  you  who  have  that  confi- 
dence in  the  Saviour,  that,  although  nature  start  at  the  sudden 
midnight  cry,  "  The  Bridegroom  cometh  !  "  faith  shall  answer, 
the  moment  that  we  remember  who  He  is,  "  Even  so,  come. 
Lord  Jesus!  " 

—  James  Hamilton. 


However  dreary  we  may  have  felt  life  to  be  here,  yet  when 
that  hour  comes  —  the  winding  ,up  of  all  things,  the  last  grand 
rush  of  darkness  on  our  spirits,  the  hour  of  that  awful  sudden 
wrench  from  all  we  have  ever  known  or  loved,  the  long  fare- 
well to  sun,  moon,  stars,  and  light  —  brother  man,  I  ask  you 
this  day,  and  I  ask  myself  humbly  and  fearfully,  "  JV/iat  will 
then  be  finished  ?  When  it  is  finished,  what  will  it  be  1  Will 
it  be  the  butterfly  existence  of  pleasure,  the  mere  life  of  science, 
a  life  of  uninterrupted  sin  and  self-gratification,  or  will  it  be, 
'  Father,  I  have  finished  the  work  which  Thou  gavest  me  to 
do  ? '" 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


How  shocking  must  thy  summons  be,  O  Death! 
To  him  that  is  at  ease  in  his  possessions! 
Who,  counting  on  long  years  of  pleasure  here, 
Is  quite  unfurnished  for  the  world  to  come. 
In  that  dread  moment,  how  the  frantic  soul 
Raves  round  the  walls  of  her  clay  tenement; 
Runs  to  each  avenue,  and  shrieks  for  help; 
But  shrieks  in  vain. 

—  Blair. 


176  DEATH. 

When  we  come  to  die,  we  shall  be  alone.  From  all  our 
worldly  possessions  we  shall  be  about  to  part.  Worldly  friends 
—  the  friends  drawn  to  us  by  our  position,  our  wealth,  or  our 
social  qualities, —  will  leave  us  as  we  enter  the  dark  valley. 
From  those  bound  to  us  by  stronger  ties  —  our  kindred,  our 
loved  ones,  children,  brothers,  sisters,  and  from  those  not  less 
dear  to  us  who  have  been  made  our  friends  because  they  and 
we  are  the  friends  of  the  same  Saviour, —  from  them  also  we 
must  part.  Yet  not  all  will  leave  us.  There  is  One  who 
"  sticketh  closer  than  a  brother  " —  One  who  having  loved  His 
own  which  are  in  the  world  loves  them  to  the  end. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


When  I  lived,  I   provided  for  every  thing  but  death  ;  now  I 
must  die,  and  am  unprepared. 

—  C^SAR  Borgia. 


Reflect  on  death  as  in  Jesus  Christ,  not  as  without  Jesus 
Christ.  Without  Jesus  Christ  it  is  dreadful,  it  is  alarming,  it  is 
the  terror  of  nature.  In  Jesus  Christ  it  is  fair  and  lovely,  it  is 
good  and  holy,  it  is  the  joy  of  saints. 

—  Pascal. 


To  the  Christian,  these  shades  are  the  golden  haze  which 
heaven's  light  makes,  when  it  meets  the  earth,  and  mingles  with 
its  shadows. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


So  fades  a  summer  cloud  away; 

So  sinks  the  gale  when  storms  are  o'er; 

So  gently  shuts  the  eye  of  day; 

So  dies  a  wave  along  the  shore. 

—  A.  L.  Barbauld. 


Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O  Death! 

—  Mrs.  Hemans. 


DEATH.  177 

Soon  for  me  the  light  of  day 
Shall  forever  pass  away; 
Then  from  sin  and  sorrow  free, 
Take  me,  Lord,  to  dwell  with  Thee. 

DOANE. 


All  life  is  surrounded  by  a  great  circumference  of  death;  but 
to  the  believer  in  Jesus,  beyond  this  surrounding  death  is  a 
boundless  sphere  of  life.  He  has  only  to  die  once  to  be  done 
with  death  forever. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Yes,  death, —  the  hourly  possibility  of  it, —  death  is  the  sub- 
limity of  life. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Death  is  a  stage  in  human  progress,  to  be  passed  as  we  would 
pass  from  childhood  to  youth,  or  from  youth  to  manhood,  and 
with  the  same  consciousness  of  an  everlasting  nature. 

—  Sears. 


Thus  star  by  star  declines 

Till  all  are  passed  away, 
As  morning  high  and  higher  shines 

To  pure  and  perfect  day: 
Nor  sink  those  stars  in  empty  night; 

They  hide  themselves  in  heaven's  pure  light. 

—  James  Montgomery. 


Life's  race  well  run. 
Life's  work  well  done, 
Life's  crown  well  won, 
Now  comes  rest. 
—  President  Garfield's  Epitaph. 

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178  DEATH. 

"  God  giveth  His  beloved  sleep;  "  and  in  that  peaceful  sleep, 
realities,  not  dreams,  come  round  their  quiet  rest,  and  fill  their 
conscious  spirits  and  their  happy  hearts  with  blessedness  and 
fellowship.  In  His  own  time  He  will  make  the  eternal  morn- 
ing dawn,  and  the  hand  that  kept  them  in  their  slumbers 
shall  touch  them  into  waking,  and  shall  clothe  them  when  they 
arise  according  to  the  body  of  His  own  glory;  and  they,  look- 
ing into  His  face,  and  flashing  back  its  love,  its  light,  its  beauty, 
shall  each  break  forth  into  singing  as  the  rising  light  of  that 
unsetting  day  touches  their  transfigured  and  immortal  heads, 
in  the  triumphant  thanksgiving,  "  I  am  satisfied,  for  I  awake  in 
Thy  likeness."  — Alexander  Maclaren. 

When  our  earthly  day  is  closing, 
And  the  night  grows  still  and  deep, 

Let  us,  in  Thine  arms  reposing. 
Feel  Thy  power  to  save  and  keep. 

Blessed  Jesus, 
Give  Thine  own  beloved  sleep. 

What  is  our  death  but  a  night's  sleep  ?  For  as  through  sleep 
all  weariness  and  f  aintness  pass  away  and  cease,  and  the  powers  of 
the  spirit  come  back  again,  so  that  in  the  morning  we  arise  fresh 
and  strong  and  joyous;  so  at  the  Last  Day  we  shall  rise  again 
as  if  we  had  only  slept  a  night,  and  shall  be  fresh  and  strong. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Death  to  a  good  man  is  but  passing  through  a  dark  entry, 
out  of  one  little  dusky  room  of  his  Father's  house  into  another 
that  is  fair  and  large,  lightsome  and  glorious,  and  divinely  en- 
tertaining. 

—  Adam  Clarke. 


Death  is  the  quiet  haven  of  us  all. 

—  Wordsworth. 


DEATH.  179 

Mysterious  Night  !  When  our  first  parent  knew 

Thee  from  report  Divine,  and  heard  thy  name, 

Did  he  not  tremble  for  this  lovely  frame. 
This  glorious  canopy  of  light  and  blue  ? 
Yet  'neath  a  curtain  of  translucent  dew, 

Bathed  in  the  rays  of  the  great  setting  flame, 

Hesperus,  with  the  host  of  heaven  came; 
And  lo!  creation  widened  in  man's  view. 
Who  could  have  thought  such  darkness  lay  concealed 

Within  thy  beams,  O  sun  ?  or  who  could  find, 
While  fly  and  leaf  and  insect  stood  revealed, 

That  to  such  countless  orbs  thou  mad'st  us  blind  ? 
Why  do  we  then  shun  death  with  anxious  strife  ? 
If  light  can  thus  deceive,  wherefore  not  life  ? 

—  Joseph  Blanco  White. 


And  when  no  longer  we  can  see  Thee,  may  we  reach  out  our 

hands,  and  find  Thee  leading  us  through  death  to  immortality 

and  glory. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


''Paid  the   debt  of  nature^     No;  it  is  not  paying  a  debt; 

it  is  rather  like  bringing  a  note  to  the  bank  to  obtain  solid  gold 

for  it.     In  this  case  you  bring  this  cumbrous  body  which  is 

nothing  worth,  and  which  you  could  not  wish  to  retain   long; 

you  lay  it  down,  and  receive  for  it  from  the  eternal  treasures  — 

liberty,  victory,  knowledge,  rapture. 

—  Foster. 


When  darkness  gathers  over  all. 

And  the  last  tottering  pillars  fall, 
Take  the  poor  dust  Thy  mercy  warms, 

And  mould  it  into  heavenly  forms. 

—  O.  W.  Holmes. 


180  DEATH. 

Death  is  the  waiting-room  where  we  robe  ourselves  for  immor- 
tality. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Death  is  like  thunder  in  two  particulars;  we  are  alarmed  at 
the  sound  of  it ;  and  it  is  formidable  only  from  that  which  pre- 
ceded it. 

C.   C.   COLTON. 


If  life  has  not  made  you  by  God's  grace,  through  faith,  holy — 

think  you,  will  death  without  faith  do  it  ?     The  cold  waters  of 

that  narrow  stream   are  no  purifying   bath  in   which  you  may 

wash  and  be  clean.     No  !  no  !  as  you  go  down  into  them,  you- 

will  come  up  from  them. 

-—Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  character  wherewith  we  sink  into  the  grave  at  death  is 
the  very  character  wherewith  we  shall  reappear  at  the  resurrec- 
tion. 

—  Thomas  Chalmers. 


He  that  always  waits  upon  God  is  ready  whenever  He  calls. 
Neglect  not  to  set  your  accounts  even;  he  is  a  happy  man  who 
so  lives  as  that  death  at  all  times  may  find  him  at  leisure  to  die. 

—  Owen  Feltham. 


Death  cannot  come 
To  him  untimely  who  is  fit  to  die; 
The  less  of  this  cold  world,  the  more  of  heaven; 
The  briefer  life,  the  earlier  immortality. 

MiLLMAN. 


A  joyful  messenger  of  peace,  whose  kind  hand  opens  to  the 
Aveary  pilgrim  the  gates  of  immortality,  and  lets  the  oppressed 
go  free,  is  death. 


DEATH.  181 

No  man  who  is  fit  to  live  need  fear  to  die.  Poor,  timorous, 
faithless  souls  that  we  are  !  How  we  shall  smile  at  our  vain 
alarms  when  the  worst  has  happened  !  To  us  here,  death  is 
the  most  terrible  thing  we  know.  But  when  we  have  tasted  its 
reality,  it  will  mean  to  us  birth,  deliverance,  a  new  creation  of 
ourselves.  It  will  be  what  health  is  to  the  sick  man.  It  will  be 
what  home  is  to  the  exile.  It  will  be  what  the  loved  one  given 
back  is  to  the  bereaved.  As  we  draw  near  to  it,  a  solemn 
gladness  should  fill  our  hearts.  It  is  God's  great  morning 
lighting  up  the  sky.  Our  fears  are  the  terror  of  children  in 
the  night.  The  night  with  its  terrors,  its  darkness,  its  feverish 
dreams,  is  passing  away;  and  when  we  awake,  it  will  be  into 
the  sunlight  of  God. 

—  George  S.  Merriam. 


Tarry  with  me,  O  my  Saviour  ! 

Lay  my  head  upon  Thy  breast, 
Till  the  morning;  then  awake  me  — 

Morning  of  eternal  rest. 

—  Caroline  S.  Smith. 


O  that  we  may  all  be  living  in  such  a  state  of  preparedness, 

that,  when  summoned  to  depart,  we  may  ascend  the  summit 

whence  faith  looks  forth  on  all  that  Jesus  hath   suffered  and 

done,  and   exclaiming,  "We  have  waited  for  Thy  salvation,  O 

Lord,"  lie  down  with  Moses  on  Pisgah,   to  awake  with  Moses 

in  paradise. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Seek  such  union  to  the  Son  of  God,  as,  leaving  no  present 
death  within,  shall  make  the  second  death  impossible,  and  shall 
leave  in  all  your  future  only  that  shadow  of  death  which  men 
call  dissolution,  and  which  the  gospel  calls  sleeping  in  Jesus. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


182  DEATH. 

Love  masters  agony;  the  soul  that  seemed 
Forsaken  feels  her  present  God  again 
And  in  her  Father's  arms 

Contented  dies  away. 

—  John  Keble. 


Every  day  His  servants  are  dying  modestly  and  peacefully 
—  not  a  word  of  victory  on  their  lips;  but  Christ's  deep 
triumph  in  their  hearts  —  watching  the  slow  progress  of  their 
own  decay,  and  yet  so  far  emancipated  from  personal  anxiety 
that  they  are  still  able  to  think  and  plan  for  others,  not  know- 
ing that  they  are  doing  any  great  thing.  They  die,  and  the 
world  hears  nothing  of  them;  and  yet  theirs  was  the  completest" 
victory.  They  came  to  the  battle  field,  the  field  to  which  they 
had  been  looking  forward  all  their  lives,  and  the  enemy  was 
not  to  be  found.     There  was  no  foe  to  fight  with. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


"  Come  and  see  how  a  Christian  can  die,"  said  the  dying 
sage  to  his  pupil;  how  would  it  do  to  say,  "  Come  and  see  how 
an  infidel  can  die  ?  "  How  would  it  have  done  for  Voltaire  to 
say  this,  who,  in  his  panic  at  the  prospect  of  eternity,  offered  his 
physician  half  his  fortune  for  six  weeks  more  of  life  ? 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Dying  visions  of  angels  and  Christ   and   God    and  heaven 

are  confined   to  credibly   good   men.     Why   do  not   bad   men 

have  such  visions.'     They  die  of  all  sorts  of  diseases;  they  have 

nervous  temperaments;  they  even  have  creeds  and  hopes  about 

the  future  which  they  cling  to  with  very  great  tenacity;  why  do 

not  they  rejoice  in  some  such  glorious  illusions  when  they  go 

out  of  the  world  ? 

—  E.  F.  Burr. 


Death  is  the  crown  of  life. 


DEATH.  183 

And  now,  with  busy,  but  noiseless  process,  the  Comforter  is 
giving  the  last  finish  to  the  sanctifying  work,  and  making  the 
heir  of  glory  meet  for  home,  till,  at  a  signal  given,  the  portal 
opens,  and  even  the  numb  body  feels  the  burst  of  blessedness 
as  the  rigid  features  smile  and  say,  "  I  see  Jesus,"  then  leave 
the  vision  pictured  on  the  pale  but  placid  brow. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


How  well  he  fell  asleep  ! 

Like  some  proud  river,  widening  toward  the  sea; 

Calmly  and  grandly,  silently  and  deep. 

Life  joined  eternity. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


O  Earth,  so  full  of  dreary  noises  ! 
O  men,  with  wailing  in  your  voices ! 
O  delved  gold,  the  wailer's  heap  ! 
O  strife,  O  curse,  that  o'er  it  fall ! 
God  makes  a  silence  through  you  all, 
And  "  giveth  His  beloved,  sleep." 

—  Mrs.  Browning. 


Earth  has  one  angel  less,  and  heaven  one  more  since  yester- 
day. Already,  kneeling  at  the  throne,  she  has  received  her 
welcome,  and  is  resting  on  the  bosom  of  her  Saviour. 

—  Hawthorne. 


Beloved   in    the    Lord,  if   you    only    will    lay    hold   of   the 

Saviour's  strength,  and  cast  yourself  entirely  on  His  kind  arms, 

with  His  dying  grace  He  will  do  wonders  for  you  in   the  dying 

hour.     A  great  trembling  may  come  upon  you  when  you  think 

of  going  down  to  tread  the  verge  of  Jordan;   "  for  ye  have  not 

passed  this  way  heretofore."     But  Jesus  has;  and  you  shall  see 

His  footprints  on  the  shore.     He  will  be  your  guide  unto  death, 

and  through  death. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


184  DEATH. 

Dead  is  she  ?  No;  rather  let  us  call  ourselves  dead,  who  tire 
so  soon  in  the  service  of  the  Master  whom  she  has  gone  to 
serve  forever.  — W.  S.  Smart. 


So  we  fall  asleep  in  Jesus.  We  have  played  long  enough  at 
the  games  of  life,  and  at  last  we  feel  the  approach  of  death. 
We  are  tired  out,  and  we  lay  our  heads  back  on  the  bosom  of 
Christ,  and  quietly  fall  asleep. 

—  H.  AV.  Beecher. 


I  do  not  know  why  a  man  should  be  either  regretful  or 
afraid,  as  he  watches  the  hungry  sea  eating  away  this  "  bank 
and  shoal  of  time  "  upon  which  he  stands,  even  though  the  tide 
has  all  but  reached  his  feet  —  if  he  knows  that  God's  strong 
hand  will  be  stretched  forth  to  him  at  the  moment  when  the 
sand  dissolves  from  under  him,  and  will  draw  him  out  of  many 
waters,  and  place  him  high  above  the  floods  on  the  stable  land 
where  there  is  "  no  more  sea." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  you  take  the  wires  of  the  cage  apart,  you  do  not  hurt 
the  bird,  but  help  it.  You  let  it  out  of  its  prison.  How  do 
you  know  that  death  does  not  help  me  when  it  takes  the  wires 
of  my  cage  down  }  —  that  it  does  not  release  me,  and  put  me  into 
some  better  place,  and  better  condition  of  life  ? 

—  Bishop  Randolph  S.  Foster. 


The  most  heaven-like  spots  I  have  ever  visited,  have  been 
certain  rooms  in  which  Christ's  disciples  were  awaiting  the  sum- 
mons of  death.  So  far  from  being  a  "  house  of  mourning,"  I 
have  often  found  such  a  house  to  be  a  vestibule  of  glory. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


The  world  recedes  ;  it  disappears  ! 
Heaven  opens  on  my  eyes  ! 


-Pope. 


DEATH.  185 

I  am  not  in  the  least  surprised  that  your  impression  of  death 
becomes  more  lively,  in  proportion  as  age  and  infirmity  bring 
it  nearer.  God  makes  use  of  this  rough  trial  to  undeceive  us 
in  respect  to  our  courage,  to  make  us  feel  our  weakness,  and  to 
keep  us  in  all  humility  in  His  hands. 

—  Fenelon. 


When  at  last  the  angels  come  to  convey  your  departing  spirit 
to  Abraham's  bosom,  depend  upon  it,  however  dazzling  in 
their  newness  they  may  be  to  you,  you  will  find  that  your 
history  is  no  novelty,  and  you  yourself  no  stranger  to  them. 

—  James  Hamilton. 

And  when,  in  the  evening  of  life,  the  golden  clouds  rest 
sweetly  and  invitingly  upon  the  golden  mountains,  and  the 
light  of  heaven  streams  down  through  the  gathering  mists  of 
death,  I  wish  you  a  peaceful  and  abundant  entrance  into  that 
world  of  blessedness,  where  the  great  riddle  of  life  will  be  un- 
folded to  you  in  the  quick  consciousness  of  a  soul  redeemed 
and  purified. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Dear  brethren,  our  ship  is  sailing  fast.  We  shall  soon  hear 
the  rasping  of  the  shallows,  and  the  commotion  overhead  which 
bespeaks  the  port  in  view.  When  it  comes  to  that,  how  will 
you  feel }  Are  you  a  stranger,  or  a  convict,  or  are  you  going 
home  ? 


Brethren,  we  are  all  sailing  home;  and  by  and  by,  when  we 
are  not  thinking  of  it,  some  shadowy  thing  (men  call  it  death), 
at  midnight,  will  pass  by,  and  will  call  us  by  name,  and  will 
say,  ''  I  have  a  message  for  you  from  home;  God  wants  you; 
heaven  waits  for  you." 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


186  DECISION. 


Do  we  not  all,  in  this  very  hour,  recall  a  death -bed  scene  in 
which  some  loved  one  has  passed  away  ?  And,  as  we  bring  to 
mind  the  solemn  reflections  of  that  hour,  are  we  not  ready  to 
hear  and  to  heed  the  voice  with  which  a  dying  wife  once  ad- 
dressed him  who  stood  sobbing  by  her  side:  "  My  dear  hus- 
band, live  for  one  thing,  and  only  one  thing ;  just  one  thing, — 
the  glory  of  God,  the  glory  of  God !  " 

—  E.  P.  Tenney. 


DECISION. 


Here  I  stand;  I  can  do  no  otherwise.    God  help  me.    Amen. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Firmness,  both  in  sufferance  and  exertion,  is  a  character 
which  I  would  wish  to  possess.  I  have  always  despised  the 
whining  yelp  of  complaint  and  the  cowardly,  feeble  resolve. 

—  Robert  Burns. 


Decision  is  a  vastly  important  thing  with  a  convicted  sinner. 

He  must  choose,  or  he  must  be  lost.     If  he  will  not  do  it,  he 

may  expect   the   Divine   Spirit  to   depart  from  him,  and  leave 

him  to  his  own  way. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


I  take  one    decisive   and  immediate   step,  and  resign  my  all 

to  the  sufficiency  of  my  Saviour. 

—  Thomas  Chalmers. 


For  a  few  brief  days  the  orchards  are  white  with  blossoms. 
They  soon  turn  to  fruit,  or  else  float  away,  useless  and  wasted, 
upon  the  idle  breeze.  So  will  it  be  with  present  feelings. 
They  must  be  deepened  into  decision,  or  be  entirely  dissipated 
by  delay. 

T.   L.  CUYLER. 


DENOMINATIONALISM.  187 

A  man  who  has  not  learned  to  say  "  no  "  —  who  is  not  re- 
solved that  he  will  take  God's  way  in  spite  of  every  dog  that 
can  bark  at  him,  in  spite  of  every  silvery  voice  that  can  woo 
him  aside — will  be  a  weak  and  wretched  man  till  he  dies. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


To  be  energetic  and  firm  where  principle  demands  it,  and 
tolerant  in  all  else,  is  not  easy.  It  is  not  easy  to  abhor  wicked- 
ness, and  oppose  it  with  every  energy,  and  at  the  same  time  to 
have  the  meekness  and  gentleness  of  Christ,  becoming  all 
things  to  all  men  for  the  truth's  sake.  The  energy  of  patience, 
the  most  godlike  of  all,  is  not  easy. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


I   hate  to  see  things  done  by  halves.     If  it  be  right,  do  it 
boldly;  if  it  be  wrong,  leave  it  undone. 

—  Gilpin. 


In  such  a  world  as  this,  with  such  hearts  as  ours,  weakness  is 
wickedness  in  the  long  run.  Whoever  lets  himself  be  shaped 
and  guided  by  any  thing  lower  than  an  inflexible  will,  fixed  in 
obedience  to  God,  will  in  the  end  be  shaped  into  a  deformity, 
and  guided  to  wreck  and  ruin. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  souls  of  men  of  feeble  purpose  are   the  graveyards  of 
good  intentions. 


DENOMINATIONALISM. 

Sects  differ;  but,  with  few  exceptions,  they  agree  not  only 
that  a  life  of  unselfish  love  will  insure  heaven,  but  that  repent- 
ance and  faith  are  the  way  by  which  one  enters  into  this  path 
of  life. 

—  The  Independent. 


188  DENOMINATIONALISM. 

I  do  not  want  the  walls  of  separation  between  different 
orders  of  Christians  to  be  destroyed,  but  only  lowered,  that  we 
may  shake  hands  a  little  easier  over  .them. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


Old  religious  factions  are  volcanoes  burned  out;  on  the  lava 
and  ashes  and  squalid  scoriae  of  old  eruptions,  grow  the  peace- 
ful olive,  the  cheering  vine,  and  the  sustaining  corn. 

—  Edmund  Burke. 


If  God  allows  us  to  remain  Methodist,  Baptist,  or  Episcopa- 
lian, it  may  be  on  account  of  the  unconverted,  that  they  may  be 
without  excuse;  that  every  type  of  man  may  be  confronted 
with  a  corresponding  type  of  doctrine  and  of  method.  Surely 
there  are  means  adapted  to  your  state,  and  ministries  fitted  to 

your  peculiar  temperament. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


It  is  neither  possible  nor  desirable  to  make  all  men  think 
alike.  Variety  is  the  very  basis  of  harmony  ;  and,  in  the 
sphere  of  ecclesiastical  experience,  oneness  of  feeling  is  vastly 
preferable  to  unanimity  of  belief.  The  voice  of  God,  how- 
ever, as  uttered  in  the  events  and  experiences  of  the  past  hundred 
years,  enjoins  upon  the  private  membership  of  the  church  the 
culture  of  that  "  unity  of  the  Spirit  "  which  is  begotten  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  and  which  derives  from  its  Divine  Author  the  life 
in  which  it  resides,  the  elements  of  which  it  is  composed,  and 
the  impulses  under  which  it  acts. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


Were  we  all  one  body,  we  should  lose  the  tremendous  stimula- 
tion that  comes  from  the  present  arrangement,  and  I  fear  that 
our  uniformity  would  become  the  uniformity  of  death  and  the 

tomb. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


DENYING  CHRIST  — DEPRAVITY.  189 

God  grant  that  we  may  contend  with  other  churches  as  the 
vine  with  the  olive,  which  of  us  shall  bear  the  best  fruit;  but 
not  as  the  brier  with  the  thistle,  which  of  us  shall  be  most  un- 
profitable. 

—  Lord  Bacon. 


It  is  not  the  actual  differences  of  Christian  men  that  do  the 
mischief,  but  the  mismanagement  of  those  differences. 

—  Philip  PIenry. 


O   for  less  of    an   abstract,   controversial   Christianity,   and 
more  of  a  living,  loving,  personal  Christ. 

—  Richard  Fuller, 


DENYING  CHRIST. 

We  deny  our  Lord  whenever,  like  Demas,  we  through  love 
of  this  present  world  forsake  the  course  of  duty  which  Christ 
has  plainly  pointed  out  to  us. 

— ^  Bishop  Heber. 


The  Christian  who  will  sit  with  sealed  lips  when  his  Master 
is  assailed,  when  religion  is  attacked,  when  wickedness  is 
broached  and  defended,  when  truth  is  denounced,  is  a  denier 
of  his  Lord,  as  guilty  as  Simon  Peter  in  Pilate's  hall. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


DEPRAVITY. 


The  gospel  proceeds  on  the  basis  of  universal  depravity;  the 
gospel  assimilates  all  varieties  of  human  nature  into  one  com- 
mon experience  of  guilt  and  need  and  helplessness;  and  this  is 
just  what  you  do  not  like  about  it. 

—  Wm.  Morley  Punshon. 


190  DEPRAVITY. 


We  believe  that  man  was  created  in  holiness,  under  the  law 
of  his  Maker;  but  by  voluntary  transgression  fell  from  that  holy 
and  happy  state;  in  consequence  of  which  all  mankind  are  now 
sinners,  not  by  constraint,  but  choice;  being  by  nature  utterly 
void  of  that  holiness  required  by  the  law  of  God,  positively 
inclined  to  evil;  and  therefore  under  just  condemnation  to 
eternal  ruin,  without  defense  or  excuse. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


There  is  not  a  beast  of  the  field  but  may  trust  his  nature  and 

follow  it;  certain  that  it  will  lead  him  to  the  best  of  which  he  is 

capable.       But    as   for  us,   our   only   invincible  enemy  is  our 

nature. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Those  that  hold  the  doctrine  of  native  depravity  do  not 
believe  that  there  is  a  mass  of  corrupt  matter  lodged  in  the 
heart,  which  sends  off  noxious  exhalations,  like  a  dead  body. 
But  they  maintain  that  the  soul  has  entirely  lost  the  image  of 
God  in  which  it  was  originally  created;  that  there  is  nothing 
pure  or  good  remaining  in  it;  that  in  consequence  of  the  with- 
drawment  of  those  special  Divine  influences  which  were  given 
to  our  first  parents,  the  proper  balance  of  the  power  is  de- 
stroyed, they  have  lost  their  conformity  to  the  law  of  God;  and 
the  holy  dispositions,  which  were  at  first  implanted  in  the  soul, 
have  given  place  to  sinful  dispositions,  which   are  the  source  of 

all  actual  transgression. 

—  H.  A.  Boardman. 


If  we  take  away  this  foundation,  that  man  is  by  nature 
foolish  and  sinful,  fallen  short  of  the  glorious  image  of  God, 
the  Christian  system  falls  at  once;  nor  will  it  deserve  as  honor- 
able an  appellation  as  that  of  a  cunningly  devised  fable. 

—  John  Wesley. 


DESPAIR.  191 

Human  nature  is  said  by  many  to  be  good;  if  so,  where  have 
social  evils  come  from  ?  For  human  nature  is  the  only  moral 
nature  in  that  corrupting  thing  called  "  society."  Every  ex- 
ample set  before  the  child  of  to-day  is  the  fruit  of  human  na- 
ture. It  has  been  planted  on  every  possible  field  —  among  the 
snows  that  never  melt;  in  temperate  regions,  and  under  the  line; 
in  crowded  cities,  in  lonely  forests;  in  ancient  seats  of  civiliza- 
tion, in  new  colonies;  and  in  all  these  fields  it  has,  without  once 
failing,  brought  forth  a  crop  of  sins  and  troubles. 

—  William  Arthur. 


DESPAIR. 


Despair  is  the   damp  of    hell;    rejoicing   is   the   serenity  of 
heaven. 

—  Donne. 


It  is  impossible  for  that  man  to  despair  who  remembers  that 
his  Helper  is  omnipotent. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Disordered  nerves  are  the  origin  of  much  religious  despair, 
when  the  individual  does  not  suspect  it;  and  then  the  body 
and  mind  have  a  reciprocal  influence  upon  each  other,  and  it 
is  difficult  to  tell  which  influences  the  other  most.  The  physi- 
cian is  often  blamed,  when  the  fault  lies  with  the  minister. 
Depression  never  benefits  body  or  soul.    We  are  saved  by  hope. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Mr.  Fearing  had,  I  think,  a  slough  of   despond   in  his  mind, 

a  slough  that  he  carried  everywhere  with  him,  or  else  he  could 

never  have  been  as  he  was. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


193  DEVOTION. 


;  DEVOTION. 

"Draw  nigh  to  God,  and  He  will  draw  nigh  to  you." 
Keep  near  to  the  fountain-head,  and  "with  joy  shall  ye  draw 
water  out  of  the  wells  of  salvation." 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


The  Christian  is  not  always  praying ;  but  within  his  bosom 
is  a  heaven-kindled  love,  —  fires  of  desire,  fervent  longings,  — 
which  make  him  always  ready  to  pray,  and  often  engage  him 
in  prayer. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


Real  inward  devotion  knows  no  prayer  but  that  arising  from 
the  depths  of  its  own  feelings. 

—  Humboldt. 


All  who  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  rise  higher  and  higher 
upon  the  mighty  pinions  of  strong  devotion,  and  with  the  un- 
blinking eye  of  faith,  into  the  regions  of  heavenly-mindedness ; 
and  shall  approach  nearer  and  nearer  to  God,  the  Sun  of  our 
spiritual  day. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


This  is  the  spirit  of  prayer  —  sincere,  humble,  believing,  sub- 
missive. Other  prayer  than  this  the  Bible  does  not  require  — 
God  will  not  accept. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


The  Christian  life  is  a  long  and  continual  tendency  of  our 
hearts  toward  that  eternal  goodness  which  we  desire  on  earth. 
All  our  happiness  consists  in  thirsting  for  it.  Now  this  thirst 
is  prayer.  Ever  desire  to  approach  your  Creator,  and  you  will 
never  cease  to  pray.  Do  not  think  it  necessary  to  pronounce 
many  words. 

—  Fenelon. 


DEVOTION.  193 


It  is  not  he  who  knows  most,  nor  he  who  hears  most,  nor  yet 

he  who  talks  most,  but  he  who  exercises  grace  most,  who  has 

most  communion  with  God. 

— Thomas  Brooks. 


Devotion  is  like  the  candle  which  Michael  Angelo  used  to 
take  in  his  pasteboard  cap,  so  as  not  to  throw  his  shadow  upon 
the  work  in  which  he  was  engaged. 

— Phillips  Brooks. 


Only  in  the  sacredness  of  inward  silence  does  the  soul  truly 
meet  the  secret,  hiding  God.  The  strength  of  resolve,  which 
afterward  shapes  life,  and  mixes  itself  with  action,  is  the  fruit 
of  those  sacred,  Solitary  moments.  There  is  a  divine  depth  in 
silence.     We  meet  God  alone. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  are  two  principal  points  of  attention  necessary  for  the 
preservation  of  this  constant  spirit  of  prayer  which  unites  us 
with  God;  we  must  continually  seek  to  cherish  it,  and  we  must 
avoid  every  thing  that  tends  to  make  us  lose  it. 

—  Fenelon 


Our  (2^//z7'/f  should  consist  in //<?^/;/^  ourselves  in  a  state  of 
susceptibility  to  Divine  impressions,  and  pliability  to  all  the 
operations  of  the  Eternal  Word. 

— Madame  Guyon. 


That  holy,  humble,  meek,  modest,  retiring  Form,  sometimes 
called  the  Spirit  of  Prayer,  has  been  dragged  from  the  closet, 
and  so  rudely  handled  by  some  of  her  professed  friends,  that 
she  has  not  only  lost  all  her  wonted  loveliness,  but  is  now 
stalking  the  street,  in  some  places,  stark  mad. 

—  Nettleton. 
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194  DOCTRINE. 


We  must  forget  ourselves  and  all  self-interest,  and  listen,  and 

be  attentive  to  God. 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


DOCTRINE 

Religion,  as  embodied  in  the  character  and  conduct  of  its 
disciples,  cannot  survive  without  doctrinal  purity.  In  the 
absence  of  this  element,  religious  feeling  inevitably  decays; 
while  even  religious  necessity  becomes  a  thing  of  naught. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


The    question  is  not  whether  a  doctrine   is   beautiful,  but 

whether  it  is  true. 

—  Guests  at  Truth. 


Doctrine  is  the  frame-work  of  life;  it  is  the  skeleton  of  truth, 
to  be  clothed  and  rounded  out  by  the  living  graces  of  a  holy 
life.  It  is  only  the  lean  creature  whose  bones  become  offen- 
sive. 

—  A.  J.  Gordon. 


Live  to  explain  thy  doctrine  by  thy  life. 

—  Prior. 


Go  on  your  knees  before  God.  Bring  all  your  idols ; 
bring  self-will,  and  pride,  and  every  evil  lust  before  Him,  and 
give  them  up.  Devote  yourself,  heart  and  soul,  to  His  will; 
and  see  if  you  do  not  "  know  of  the  doctrine." 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Don't  turn  your  back  upon  your  doctrinal  doubts  and  diffi- 
culties. Go  up  to  them  and  examine  them.  Perhaps  the 
ghastly  object  which  looks  to  you  in  the  twilight  like  a  sheeted 
ghost  may  prove  to  be  no  more  than  a  table-cloth  hanging  upon 

a  hedge. 

—  A.  H.  Boyd. 


DOUBT.  195 

We  are  not  called  on  to  believe  this  or  that  doctrine  which 
may  be  proposed  to  us  till  we  can  do  so  from  honest  conviction. 
But  we  are  called  on  to  trust, —  to  trust  ourselves  to  God, 
being  sure  that -He  will  lead  us  right, —  to  keep  close  to  Him, — 
and  to  trust  the  promises  which  He  whispers  through  our  con- 
science; this  we  can  do,  and  we  ought  to  do. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


DOUBT. 


Doubt  comes  in  at  the  window  when  inquiry  is  denied  at  the 
door. 

—  Prof.  Jowett. 


Doubt  indulged  soon  becomes  doubt  realized. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


You  ask  bitterly,  like  Pontius  Pilate,  "  What  is  truth  ?  "     In 

such  an  hour  what  reinains ?     I  reply,    "Obedience."     Leave 

those  thoughts  for  the  present.     Act  —  be  merciful  and  gentle  — 

honest;  force  yourself  to  abound  in  little  services;  try  to   do 

good  to  others;  be  true  in  the  duty  that  you  know.      77/fl!/must 

be  right,  whatever  else  is  uncertain.     And  by  all  the  laws  of 

the  human  heart,  by  the  word  of  God,  you  shall  not  be  left  to 

doubt.     Do  that  much  of  the  will  of  God  which   is  plain  to 

you,  and  "  You  shall  know  of  the  doctrine,  whether  it  be  of 

God." 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


To  get  rid  of  your  doubts,  part  with   your  sin.     Put   away 

your  intemperance,  your   dishonesty,   your  unlawful  ways    of 

making  nioney,  your  sensuality,  your  falsehood,  acted  or  spoken, 

and  see  if  a  holy  life  be  not   the  best  disperser  of  unwelcome 

doubts,    and  new  obedience   the  most  certain  guide  to   fresh 

assurance. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


196  DOUBT. 

Fear  not  to  confront  realities.     The  Saviour  lives  ;  and  the 

first  joy  that  you  will   give  to   Him  is  when,  leaving  off  your 

false  excuses,  you  throw  yourself  with  a  full   heart  and  empty 

hands  into  His  arms  of  mercy.     The  Saviour  lives;   and  were 

you  now  to  die  looking  for  salvation  only  from  that   Friend  of 

Sinners,  verily  this  day  should  you  be  with   Him  in  a  better 

than  Adam's  paradise.     The  Saviour  lives;  and  in  full  sympathy 

with  that  wondrous  lover  of  men's  souls,  the  Holy  Spirit  is 

even  now  ready  if  besought  to  begin  His  sanctifying  process  in 

your  mind.     The  Saviour  lives;  and  even  now  He  stretches  out 

toward  you  an  arm  which,  if  you   only  grasp  in  thankful  love, 

your  faith  shall  strengthen  while  you  cling,  and  it  will  be  from 

no  weakness  in  that  arm,  if  you  are  not   erelong  exalted  to  a" 

point  of  holy  attainment  which  at  this  moment  you  view  with 

despair,  and  by  and  by  to  that  region  of  unveiled  realities 

where  you  will  ask  in  wonder  at  yourself,  "  Wherefore  did  I 

doubt  ?  " 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Cold  hearts  are  not  anxious  enough  to  doubt.  Men  who 
love  will  have  their  misgivings  at  times;  that  is  not  the  evil. 
But  the  evil  is,  when  men  go  on  in  that  languid,  doubting  way, 
content  to  doubt,  proud  of  their  doubts,  morbidly  glad  to  talk 
about  them,  liking  the  romantic  gloom  of  twilight,  without  the 
manliness  to  say,  ''  I  must  and  will  know  the  truth."  That  did 
not  John  the  Baptist.     Brethren,  John  appealed  to  Christ. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


People,  when  asked  if  they  are  Christians,  give  some  of  the 

strangest  answers  you  ever  heard-     Some  will  say  if.  you   ask 

them:     "Well  —  well  —  well,  I, —  I    hope  I   am."     Suppose  a 

man  should  ask   me   if    I    am    an   American.     Would    I  say: 

"  Well,  I  —  well,  I  —  I  hope  I  am  ?  " 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


DUTY.  197 


DUTY. 


The  great  object  of  the  Christian  is  duty;  his  predominant 
desire,  to  obey  God.  When  he  can  please  the  world  consist- 
ently with  these,  he  will  do  so;  otherwise  it  is  enough  for  him 
that  God  commands,  and  enough  for  them  that  he  cannot 
disobey. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


Attention  is  our  first  duty  whenever  we  want  to  know  what 
is  our  second  duty.  There  is  no  such  cause  of  confusion  and 
worry  about  what  we  ought  to  do,  and  how  to  do  it,  as  our 
unwillingness  to  hear  what  God  would  tell  us  on  that  very 
point. 

—  H,  Clay  Trumbull. 


Duties  are  ours;  events  are  God's.  This  removes  an  infinite 
burden  from  the  shoulders  of  a  miserable,  tempted,  dying 
creature.  On  this  consideration  only,  can  he  securely  lay 
down  his  head,  and  close  his  eyes. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Duty  reaches  down  the  ages  in  its  effects,  and  into  eternity; 
and  when  the  man  goes  about  it  resolutely,  it  seems  to  me  now 
as  though  his  footsteps  were  echoing  beyond  the  stars,  though 
only  heard  faintly  in  the  atmosphere  of  this  world. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Speak,  Lord,  our  souls  are  hushed  to  hear  what  Thou  hast 
to  say  to  us.  Great  is  the  stake,  overwhelming  may  be  the 
risks  —  most  glorious  are  the  opportunities.  Speak,  Lord,  and 
show  us  what  our  duty  is  —  how  high,  how  difficult,  yet  how 
happy,  how  blessed  —  show  us  what  our  duty  is,  and,  O  great 
God  and  Father,  give  us  strength  to  do  it. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


198  DUTY. 

Brethren,  life  is  passing;  youth  goes,  strength  decays.  But 
duty  performed,  work  done  for  God  —  this  abi^des  forever,  this 
alone  is  imperishable. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Do  to-day's  duty,  fight  to-day's  temptation;  and  do  not 
weaken  and  distract  yourself  by  looking  forward  to  things 
which  you  cannot  see,  and  could  not  understand  if  you  saw 
them. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


The  reward  of  one  duty  is  the  power  to  fulfill  another. 

—  George  Eliot. 


If  the  duties  before  us  be  not  noble,  let  us  ennoble  them  by 
doing  them  in  a  noble  spirit ;  we  become  reconciled  to  life  if 
we  live  in  the  spirit  of  Him  who  reconciled  the  life  of  God 
with  the  lowly  duties  of  servants. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  primal  duties  shine  aloft  like  stars; 
The  charities  that  soothe,  and  heal,  and  bless, 
Are  scattered  at  the  feet  of  man,  like  flowers. 

—  Wordsworth. 


Knowledge  is  the  hill  which  few  may  hope  to  climb  ; 
Duty  is  the  path  that  all  may  tread. 

—  Lewis  Morris. 


The  constant  duty  of  every  man  to  his  fellows  is  to  ascertain 
his  own  powers  and  special  gifts,  and  to  strengthen  them  for 
the  help  of  others. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Life  is  of  little  value  unless  it  be  consecrated  by  duty. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


DUTY.  199 

The  doing  of  things  from  duty  is  but  a  stage  on  the  road  to 

the  kingdom  of  {ruth  and  love. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Let  a  man  begin  in  earnest  with,  "  I  ought,"  and  he  will  end, 
by  God's  grace,  if  he  persevere,  with,  "  I  will."  Let  him  force 
himself  to  abound  in  all  small  offices  of  kindliness,  attention, 
affectionateness,  and  all  these  for  God's  sake.  By  and  by  he 
will  feel  them  become  the  habit  of  his  soul, 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  moment  you  can  make  a  very  simple  discovery ;  viz., 
that  obligation  to  God  is  your  privilege,  and  is  not  imposed  as 
a  burden,  your  experience  will  teach  you  many  things, —  that 
duty  is  liberty,  that  repentance  is  a  release  from  sorrow,  that 
sacrifice  is  gain,  that  humility  is  dignity,  that  the  truth  from 
which  you  hide  is  a  healing  element  that  bathes  your  disordered 
life,  and  that  even  the  penalties  and  terrors  of  God  are  the 
artillery  only  of  protection  to  His  realm. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


The  most  fruitful  and  elevating  influence  I  have  ever  seemed 
to  meet  has  been  my  impression  of  obligation  to  God. 

—  Daniel  Webster, 


In  the  sacred  fact  of  obligation  you  touch  the  immutable,  and 
lay  hold,  as  it  were,  on  the  eternities.  At  the  very  centre  of 
your  being,  there  is  a  fixed  element,  and  that  of  a  kind  or 
degree  essentially  sovereign.  A  standard  is  set  up  in  your  very 
thought,  by  which  a  great  part  of  your  questions  are  deter- 
mined, and  about  which  your  otherwise  random  thoughts  may 

settle  into  order  and  law. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Man  not  onlv  owes  his  services  but  himself  to  God. 


300  DUTY. 

Christian  obligation  cannot  be  made  to  accord  with  a  law  of 
expediency.  The  Christian's  maxims  are,  "  Do  right  because 
you  are  bound  to  do  right."  "  Do  right  though  the  heavens 
fall."  There  is  a  world  of  difference  between  "You  had  bet- 
ter "  and  "  You  are  bound  to." 

■ —  Francis  L.  Patton. 


It  is  not  the  profession  of  religion  which  creates  the  obliga- 
tion for  the  performance  of  duty ;  for  that  existed  before  any 
such  profession  was  made.  The  profession  of  religion  only 
recognizes  the  obligation. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Men  must  be  either  the  slaves  of  duty,  or  the  slaves  of  force. 

—  Joseph  Joubert. 


Not  until  the  soul  is  fastened  in  loving  sympathies  upon  God 
as  its  centre,  will  it  sweep  the  orbit  of  duty. 


He  who  can  at  all  times  sacrifice  pleasure  to  duty  approaches 

sublimity. 

—  Lavater. 


Only  when  the  voice  of  duty  is  silent,  or  when  it  has  already 
spoken,  may  we  allowably  think  of  the  consequences  of  a  par- 
ticular action. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


When  any  duty  is  to  be  done,  it  is  fortunate  for  you  if  you 
feel  like  doing  it ;  but,  if  you  do  not  feel  like  it,  that  is  no 
reason  for  not  doing  it. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


The   consciousness   of   duty  performed  gives  us    music   at 

midnight. 

—  George  Herbert. 


DUTY.  201 

Do  right  !  and  thou  hast  naught  to  fear ; 
Right  hath  a  power  that  makes  thee  strong. 
The  night  is  dark,  but  light  is  near ; 
The  grief  is  short,  the  joy  is  long. 

—  T.  C.  Upham. 


There  is  nothing  in  the  universe   I  fear  but  that  I  shall   not 
know  all  my  duty,  or  shall  fail  to  do  it. 

—  Mary  Lyon. 


Stern  daughter  of  the  voice  of  God  ! 

—  Wordsworth. 


A  deliberate  rejection  of  duty  prescribed  by  already  recog- 
nized truth  cannot  but  destroy,  or  at  least  impair  most  seri- 
ously the  clearness  of  our  mental  vision. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 


No  man  living  in  deliberate  violation  of  his  duty,  in  willful 
disobedience  to  God's  commands,  as  taught  by  conscience,  can 
possibly  make  progress  in  acquaintance  with  the  Supreme 
Being.  Vain  are  all  acts  of  worship  in  church  or  in  secret, 
vain  are  religious  reading  and  conversation,  without  this  instant 
fidelity. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


He  who  is  false  to  present  duty  breaks  a  thread  in  the  loom, 
and  will  see  the  defect  when  the  weaving  of  a  life-time  is  unrolled. 


Neglect  of  one  duty  often  renders  us  unfit  for  another.  God 
"  is  a  rewarder,"  and  one  great  principle  on  which  He  dispenses 
His  rewards  is  this — through  our  faithfulness  in  one  thing  He 
bestows  grace  upon  us  to  be  faithful  in  another. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


We  make  time  for  duties  we  love. 


302  DUTY. 

Feeble  are  we  ?  Yes,  without  God  we  are  nothing. 
But  what,  by  faith,  every  man  may  be,  God  requires  him  to  be. 
This  is  the  only  Christian  idea  of  duty.  Measure  obligation 
by  inherent  ability  !  No,  my  brethren.  Christian  obligation  has 
a  very  different  measure.  It  is  measured  by  the  power  that 
God  will  give  us,  measured  by  the  gifts  and  possible  increments 
of  faith.  And  what  a  reckoning  will  it  be  for  many  of  us, 
when  Christ  summons  us  to  answer  before  Him  under  the  law, 
not  for  what  we  are,  but  for  what  we  might  have  been. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Take  your  duty,  and  be  strong  in  it,  as  God  will  make  you 
strong.  The  harder  it  is,  the  stronger  in  fact  you  will  be. 
Understand,  also,  that  the  great  question  here  is,  not  what  you 
will  get^  but  what  you  will  becofne.  The  greatest  wealth  you 
can  ever  get  will  be  in  yourself.  Take  your  burdens  and 
troubles  and  losses  and  wrongs,  if  come  they  must  and  will, 
as  your  opportunity,  knowing  that  God  has  girded  you  for 
greater  things  than  these. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Submission  to  duty  and  God  gives  the  highest  energy.  He, 
who  has  done  the  greatest  work  on  earth,  said  that  He  came 
down  from  heaven,  not  to  do  His  own  will,  but  the  will  of  Him 
who  sent  Him,  Whoever  allies  himself  with  God  is  armed  with 
all  the  forces  of  the  invisible  world. 

—  Clarke. 


Go  to  your  duty,  every  man,  and  trust  yourself  to  Christ; 
for  He  will  give  you  all  supply  just  as  fast  as  you  need  it. 
You  will  have  just  as  much  power  as  you  believe  you  can  have. 
Be  a  Christian;  throw  yourself  upon  God's  work;  and  get  the 
ability  you  want  in  it. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


DUTY.  203 

The  great  point  is  to  renounce  your  own  wisdom  by  sim- 
plicity of  walk,  and  to  be  ready  to  give  up  the  favor,  esteem, 
and  approbation  of  every  one,  whenever  the  path  in  which 
God  leads  you  passes  that  way. 

—  Fenelon. 


Let  him  who  gropes  painfully  in  darkness  or  uncertain  light, 
and  prays  vehemently  that  the  dawn  may  ripen  into  day,  lay 
this  precept  well  to  heart:  "  Do  the  duty  which  lieth  nearest  to 
thee,"  which  thou  knowest  to  be  a  duty  !  Thy  second  duty 
will  already  have  become  clearer. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


When  faith  and  hope  fail,  as  they  do  sometimes,  we  must 
trust  charity,  which  is  love  in  action.  We  must  speculate  no 
more  on  our  duty,  but  simply  do  it.  When  we  have  done  it, 
however  blindly,  perhaps  Heaven  will  show  us  the  reason  why. 

—  D.  M.  Craik. 


Put  thou  thy  trust  in  God; 

In  duty's  path  go  on; 
Fix  on  His  word  thy  steadfast  eye; 

So  shall  thy  work  be  done. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Whatever  our  place  allotted  to  us  by  Providence,  that  for  us 
is  the  post  of  honor  and  duty.  God  estimates  us,  not  by  the 
position  we  are  in,  but  by  the  way  in  which  we  fill  it. 

—  T.  Edwards. 


O  thou  sculptor,  painter,  poet, 

Take  this  lesson  to  thy  heart; 
That  is  best  which  lieth  nearest; 

Shape  from  that  thy  work  of  art. 

—  Longfellow. 


304  DUTY. 

Our  grand  business  is,  not  to  see  what  lies  dimly  at  a  dis- 
tance, but  to  do  what  lies  clearly  at  hand. 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


Is  there  no  reconciliation  of  some  ancient  quarrel,  no  pay- 
ment of  some  long  outstanding  debt,  no  courtesy  or  love  or 
honor  to  be  rendered  to  those  to  whom  it  has  long  been  due; 
no  charitable,  humble,  kind,  useful  deed,  by  which  you  can 
promote  the  glory  of  God,  or  good-will  among  men,  or  peace 
upon  earth  ?      If  there  be  any  such,  I  beseech  you,  in  God's 

name,  in  Christ's  name,  go  and  do  it. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Let  men  of  all  ranks  whether  they  are  successful,  or  unsuc- 
cessful, whether  they  triumph  or  not  —  let  them  do  their  duty, 

and  rest  satisfied. 

—  Plato. 


Not  infrequently  are  Christians  heard  to  speak  of  duties  as 
crosses  to  be  borne;  and  I  am  convinced  that  some  among  them 
regard  their  performance  as  a  complete  compliance  with  the 
law  of  self-denial.  It  is  a  cross  to  pray,  to  speak,  to  commend 
Christ  to  others,  to  attend  church,  to  frequent  the  social  meet- 
ings, and,  indeed,  to  do  any  thing  of  a  distinctly  religious  na- 
ture. By  the  force  of  their  will  and  with  the  aid  of  sundry 
admonitions  they  bring  themselves  up  to  the  discharge  of  those 
obligations,  but,  on  the  whole,  they  feel  that  it  should  entitle 
them  to  a  place  in  "  the  noble  army  of  martyrs."  I  am  sorry  to 
dissipate  the  comfortable  illusion;  but  I  am  compelled  to  as- 
sure them  that  they  totally  misapprehend  the  doctrine  of  our 
Lord.  He  said  that  it  was  His  meat  and  drink  to  do  the  will 
of  His  Father ;  and  He  never  once  refers  to  duty  in  any  other 
way  than  as  a  delight.     The  cross  was  something  distinct  from 

it. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


EARNESTNESS.  205 


We  should  learn  never  to  interpret  duty  by  success.     The 

opposition  which  assails  us  in  the  course  of  obedience  is  no 

evidence  that  we  are  mistaken. 

—  Newman  Hall, 


E. 

EARNESTNESS. 
This  world  is  given  as  a  prize  for  the  men  in  earnest';  and 
that  which  is  true  of  this  world  is  truer  still  of  the  world  to 
come. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Without  earnestness  no  man  is  ever  great,  or  does  really 
great  things.  He  may  be  the  cleverest  of  men ;  he  may  be 
brilliant,  entertaining,  popular;  but  he  will  want  weight.  No 
soul-moving  picture  was  ever  painted  that  had  not  in  it  depth 
of  shadow. 

—  Peter  Bayne. 


The  best  way  for  a  man  to  get  out  of  a  lowly  position  is  to 
be  conspicuously  effective  in  it. 


Rouse  to  some  work  of  high  and  holy  love, 
And  thou  an  angel's  happiness  shalt  know. 

—  Carlos  Wilcox. 


Earnestness  is  the  devotion  of  all  the  faculties. 

—  C.   N.   BOVEE. 


Child  of  earth  and  earthly  sorrows  —  child  of  God  and  im- 
mortal hopes  —  arise  from  thy  sadness,  gird  up  the  loins  of  thy 
mind,  and  with  unfaltering  energy  press  toward  thy  rest  and 
reward  on  high.  —  E.  L.  Magoon. 


206  EARTH. 


Up,  then,  with  speed,  and  work; 

Fling  ease  and  self  away  — 
This  is  no  time  for  thee  to  sleep  — 

Up,  watch,  and  work,  and  pray  ! 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 


My  God,  help  me  always  resolutely  to  strive,  and,  through 
life  and  death,  to  force  my  way  unto  Thee. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


EARTH. 


This  poor  world,  the  object  of  so  much  insane  attachment, 
we  are  about  to  leave;  it  is  but  misery,  vanity,  and  folly;  a 
phantom, —  the  very  fashion  of  which  "passeth  away." 

—  Fenelon. 


We  are  pilgrims,  not  settlers ;  this  earth  is  our  inn,  not  our 

home. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent. 


Build  your  nest  upon  no  tree  here,  for  ye  see  that  God  hath 
sold  the  forest  to  death. 

—  Rutherford. 


Too  low  they  build  who  build  beneath  the  stars. 

—  Young. 


Our  earthly  possessions  will  indeed  perish  in  the  final  wreck 
of  all  things;  but  let  the  ship  perish,  let  all  we  have  sink  in 
the  deep,  if  we  may  come  "safe  to  land."  From  these  storms 
and  billows  —  these  dangerous  seas  —  these  tempestuous  voy- 
ages —  may  we  all  be  brought  at  last,  safe  to  heaven. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


ENExMIES.  207 


Transiency  is  stamped  on  all  our  possessions,  occupations, 
and  delights.  We  have  the  hunger  for  eternity  in  our  souls, 
the  thought  of  eternity  in  our  hearts,  the  destination  for  eter- 
nity written  on  our  inmost  being,  and  the  need  to  ally  ourselves 
with  eternity  proclaimed  by  the  most  short-lived  trifles  of  time. 
Either  these  things  will  be  the  blessing  or  the  curse  of  our  lives. 
Which  do  you  mean  that  they  shall  be  for  you  ? 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  cloud-capped  towers,  the  gorgeous  palaces. 
The  solemn  temples,  the  great  globe  itself, 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit,  shall  dissolve, 
And,  like  this  unsubstantial  pageant  faded, 
Leave  not  a  rack  behind. 

—  Shakspeare. 


Let  the  mantle  of  worldly  enjoyments  hang  loose  about  you, 
that  it  may  be  easily  dropped  when  death  comes  to  carry  you 
into  another  world. 

—  T.  Boston. 


Do  not  wade  far  out  into  the  dangerous  sea  of  this  world's 
comfort.  Take  the  good  that  God  provides  you,  but  say  of  it, 
"It  passeth  away;"  for,  indeed,  it  is  but  a  temporary  supply  for 
a  temporary  need.  Never  suffer  your  goods  to  become  your 
God. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


ENEMIES. 
We  pray  for  our  enemies;  we  seek  to  persuade  those  who 
hate  us  without  cause  to  live  conformably  to  the  goodly  precepts 
of  Christ,  that  they  may  become  partakers  with  us  of  the  joyful 
hope  of  blessings  from  God,  the  Lord  of  all. 

—  Justin  Martyr. 


208  ENTHUSIASM. 


A  man's  enemies  have  no  power  to  harm  him,  if  he  is  true  to 

himself  and  loyal  to  God. 

—  John  B.  Gough. 


ENTHUSIASM. 

Enthusiasm  is  the  element  of  success  in  every  thing.     It  is 

the  light  that  leads,  and  the  strength  that  lifts  men  on  and  up 

in  the  great  struggles  of  scientific  pursuits  and  of  professional 

labor.     It  robs  endurance  of  difficulty,  and  makes  a  pleasure  of 

duty. 

—  Bishop  Doane. 


Every  great  and  commanding  movement  in  the  annals  of  the 

world  is  the  triumph  of  enthusiasm. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


Those  who  have  arrived  at  any  very  eminent  degree  of  ex- 
cellence in  the  practice  of  an  art  or  profession  have  commonly 
been  actuated  by  a  species  of  enthusiasm  in  their  pursuit  of  it. 
They  have  kept  one  object  in  view  amidst  all  the  vicissitudes 

of  time  and  fortune. 

—  John  Knox. 


In  the  whole  range  of  human  vision,  nothing  is  more  attract- 
ive than  to  see  a  young  man  full  of  promise  and  of  hope,  bend- 
ing all  his  energies  in  the  direction  of  truth  and  duty  and  God, 
his  soul  pervaded  with  the  loftiest  enthusiasm,  and  his  life  con- 
secrated to  the  noblest  ends.  To  be  such  a  young  man  is  to 
rival  the  noblest  and  best  of  men  in  heroic  valor  and  Chris- 
tian chivalry.  Nay,  to  be  such  a  young  man  is  to  be  like 
Christ,  the  highest  type,  the  most  illustrious  example  of  en- 
thusiasm the  world  has  ever  seen. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


Earnestly  contend  for  the  faith. 


ENVY  — ETERNAL  LIFE.  209 

Be  not  afraid  of  enthusiasm ;  you  need  it ;  you  can  do   noth- 
ing effectually  without  it. 

—  GUIZOT. 


Depend  upon  it,  my  younger  brethren,  the  bright,  self-sacri- 
ficing enthusiasms  of  early  manhood  are  among  the  most  pre- 
cious things  in  the  whole  course  of  human  life. 

H.  P.  LiDDON. 


ENVY. 

What  a  wretched  and  apostate  state  is  this !  To  be  offended 
with  excellence,  and  to  hate  a  man  because  we  approve  him  ! 
The  condition  of  the  envious  man  is  the  most  emphatically 
miserable  ;  he  is  not  only  incapable  of  rejoicing  in  another's 
merit  or  success,  but  lives  in  a  world  wherein  all  mankind  are 
in  a  plot  against  his  quiet,  studying  their  own  happiness  and 
advantage. 

—  Addison. 


It  is  the  practice  of  the  multitude  to   bark  at  eminent  men, 
as  little  dogs  do  at  strangers. 

—  Seneca. 


If  we  did  but  know  how  little  some  enjoy  of  the  great  things 
that  they  possess,  there  would  not  be  much  envy  in  the  world. 

—  Young. 


ETERNAL  LIFE. 

This  is  eternal  life;  a  life  of  everlasting  love,  showing  itself 
in  everlasting  good  works;  and  whosoever  lives  that  life,  he 
lives  the  life  of  God,  and  hath  eternal  life. 

14  — Charles  Kingsley. 


210  ETERNAL  LIFE. 


Yes,  what  I  am  to  be  everlastingly,  I  am  growing  to  be  now 
—  now  in  this  present  time  so  little  thought  of,  this  time  which 
the  sun  rises  and  sets  in,  and  the  clock  strikes  in,  and  I  wake 
and  sleep  in. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Yes,  I  live  in  God,  and  shall  eternally.  It  is  His  hand 
upholds  me  now ;  and  death  will  be  but  an  uplifting  of  me  into 
His  bosom. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


What  a  sublime  doctrine  it  is,  that  goodness  cherished  now 
is  eternal  life  already  entered  on  ! 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Every  natural  longing  has  its  natural  satisfaction.  If  we 
thirst,  God  has  created  liquid  to  gratify  thirst.  If  we  are 
susceptible  of  attachment,  there  are  beings  to  gratify  that  love. 
If  we  thirst  for  life  and  love  eternal,  it  is  likely  there  are  an 
eternal  life  and  an  eternal  love  to  satisfy  that  craving. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


It  is  only  Jesus  Christ  who  has  thrown  light  on  life  and  im- 
mortality through  the  gospel;  and  because  He  has  done  so,  and 
has  enabled  us  by  His  atoning  death  and  intercession  to  make 
the  most  of  this  discovery,  His  gospel  is,  for  all  who  will,  a 
power  of  God  unto  salvation. 

H.   P.    LiDDON. 


Eternal  life  does  not  depend  upon  our  perfection;  but  because 
it  does  depend  upon  the  grace  of  Christ  and  the  love  of  the 
Spirit,  that  love  shall  prompt  us  to  emulate  perfection. 

—  William  Adams. 


God  has  given  to  us  eternal  life ;  and  this  life  is  in  His  Son. 


ETERNAL  LIFE.  211 


You  reap  what  you  sow  —  not  something  else,  but  that.     An 

act  of  love  makes  the  soul  more  loving.     A  deed  of  humbleness 

deepens  humbleness.     The  thing  reaped  is  the  very  thing  sown, 

multiplied   a  hundred  fold.      You  have   sown  a  seed  of  life, 

you  reap  life  everlasting. 

• —  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Sow  the  seeds  of  life  —  humbleness,  pure-heartedness,  love; 

and    in    the   long    eternity  which  lies  before  the    soul,  every 

minutest  grain  will  come  up  again  with   an  increase  of  thirty, 

sixty,  or  a  hundred  fold. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Life  everywhere  is  in  vast  and  endless  variety.     So  it  is  with 

life  eternal,   that  gift  of  God,  constituting,  in  its  length  and 

breadth  and  height   and  depth,  the  reward  of  the  righteous. 

The    penitent,  dying  thief  is  not   going  into  heaven  like  the 

triumphant,  dying  Paul. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


The  more  we  can  be  raised  above  the  petty  vexations  and 

pleasures  of  this  world  into  the   eternal  life  to  come,  the  more 

shall  we  be  prepared  to  enter   into  that   eternal  life   whenever 

God  shall  please  to  call  us  hence. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Yes,  my  brethren,  Christ  will  reign  —  must  reign.  O  what  a 
grand,  glorious  destiny  awaits  us  who  are  saved !  I  stand  in 
the  presence  of  a  scheme  that  I  have  neither  power  to  compre- 
hend nor  to  delineate.  I  tell  you,  when  the  end  shall  come, 
and  God  Almighty  shall  gather  into  His  kingdom  the  souls  and 
bodies  of  men  saved  upon  the  earth,  they  will  reach  the  pinna- 
cle of  eternal  life  in  all  its  splendor  !  Happy,  happy  will  be 
the  day  when  you  and  I,  by  God's  grace,  stand  in  full  propor- 
tion on  the  granite  platform  of  an  eternal,  happy  immortality! 

—  Bishop  Daggett. 


V 


313  ETERNITY 


O,  if  we  could  tear  aside  the  vail,  and  see  for  but  one  hour 
what  it  signifies  to  be  a  soul  in  the  power  of  an  endless  life, 
what  a  revelation  would  it  be  ! 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


ETERNITY. 

Beyond  the  grave  !  As  the  vision  rises  how  this  side  dwin- 
dles into  nothing  —  a  speck  —  a  moment  —  and  its  glory  and 
pomp  shrink  into  the  trinkets  and  baubles  that  amuse  an  infant 
for  a  day.  Only  those  things,  in  the  glory  of  this  light,  which 
lay  hold  of  immortality,  seem  to  have  any  value. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


And  can  eternity  belong  to  me, 

Poor  pensioner  on  the  bounties  of  an  hour  ? 

—  Young. 


Yes,  from  the  mountain  of  eternity  we  shall  look  down,  and 
behold  the  whole  plain  spread  before  us.  Down  here  we  get 
lost  and  confused  in  the  devious  valleys  that  run  off  from  the 
roots  of  the  hills  everywhere,  and  we  cannot  make  out  where 
the  streams  are  going,  and  what  there  is  behind  that  low  shoul- 
der of  the  hill  yonder.  But  when  we  get  to  the  summit  peak 
and  look  down,  it  will  all  shape  itself  into  one  consistent  whole, 
and  we  shall  see  it  all  at  once. 


None  can  comprehend  eternity  but  the  eternal  God. 

—  Boston. 


Eternity  invests  every  state,  whether  of  bliss  or  of  suffering, 

with  a  mysterious  and  awful   importance,   entirely  its  own.     It 

gives  that  weight  and  moment  to  whatever  it  attaches,  compared 

to  which  all  interests  that   know  a  period  fade  into  absolute 

insignificance. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


EVIL.  313 

The  youth  of  the  soul  is  everlasting,  and  eternity  is  youth. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 

Eternity  has  no  gray  hairs !     The  flowers  fade,  the  heart 

withers,  man  grows  old  and  dies,  the   world  lies   down  in   the 

sepulchre  of  ages,  but  time  writes  no  wrinkles  on  the   brow  of 

Eternity. 

—  Bishop  Heber. 


The  tree  will  not  only  lie  as  it  falls,  but  it  will  fall  as  it  leans. 
What  is  the  inclination  of  my  soul .'' 

—  J.  J.  Gurney. 


Eternity  forbids  thee  to  forget. 

—  Byron. 


EVIL. 


Many  have  puzzled  themselves  about  the  origin   of  evil;  I 

observe  that  there  is  evil,  and  that  there  is  a  way  to  escape  it, 

and  with  this  I  begin  and  end. 

—  John  Newton. 


Nothing  is  to  be  esteemed  evil  which  God  and   nature  have 

fixed  with  eternal  sanction. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


The  cardinal  method  with    faults   is  to  overgrow  them   and 

choke  them  out  with  virtues. 

—  John  Bascom. 


Nothing  can  work  me  damage  except  myself.  The  harm 
that  I  sustain  I  carry  about  with  me,  and  never  am  a  real  suf- 
ferer but  by  my  own  fault. 

—  St.  Bernard. 


314  EVIL  SPEAKING. 


The  best  antidote  agjiinst  evils  of  all  kinds,  against  the  evil 

thoughts  that  haunt  the  soul,  against  the  needless  perplexities 

which  distract  the  conscience,  is  to  keep  hold  of  the   good  we 

have.     Impure  thoughts  will  not  stand  against  pure  words  and 

prayers  and  deeds.     Little  doubts  will  not  avail  against  great 

certainties.     Fix  your  affections  on  things  above,  and  then  you 

will  less  and  less  be  troubled  by  the  cares,  the  temptations,  the 

troubles  of  things  on  earth. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


EVIL  SPEAKING. 
Keep  clear  of  personalities  in  conversation.  Talk  of  things, 
objects,  thoughts.  The  smallest  minds  occupy  themselves  with 
persons.  Do  not  needlessly  report  ill  of  others.  As  far  as 
possible,  dwell  on  the  good  side  of  human  beings.  There  are 
family  boards  where  a  constant  process  of  depreciating,  assign- 
ing motives,  and  cutting  up  character,  goes  forward.  They  are 
not  pleasant  places.  One  who  is  healthy  does  not  wish  to  dine 
at  a  dissecting  table.  There  is  evil  enough  in  man,  God  knows. 
But  it  is  not  the  mission  of  every  young  man  and  woman  to 
detail  and  report  it  all.  Keep  the  atmosphere  as  pure  as  pos- 
sible, and  fragrant  with  gentleness  and  charity, 

—  John  Hall. 


If  there  is  any  person  to  whom  you  feel  a  dislike,  that  is  the 
person  of  whom  you  ought  never  to  speak. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Slander  is  a  poison  which  extinguishes  charity,  both  in  the 

slanderer  and  in  the  persons  wdio  listen  to  it. 

—  St.  Bernard. 


Never  throw  mud.     You  may  miss  your  mark;  but  you  must 
have  dirty  hands. 

—  Joseph  Parker. 


EVIL  SPEAKING.  215 


A  doctor  might  as  well  stand  with,  his  saddle-bags  and 
scatter  their  contents  through  the  community  as  a  man  tell  all 
that  he  knows  about  people  indiscriminately.  Medicine  is  to 
be  administered  carefully.  It  is  the  work  of  skill  to  properly 
administer  it.  It  is  to  be  given  according  to  the  constitution, 
temperament,  and  condition  of  the  patient.  And  truth,  being 
a  medicine,  instead  of  being  thrown  about  heedlessly,  and  in- 
discriminately, and  with  brutal  barbarity,  is  to  be  administered 
with  care  and  discretion. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


To  persevere  in  one's  duty,  and  to  be  silent  is  the  best  answer 
to  calumny, 

—  George  Washington. 


The  man  recovered  of  the  bite. 
The  dog  it  was  that  died. 


Goldsmith. 


We  cannot  control  the  evil  tongues  of  others;  but  a  good  life 
enables  us  to  despise  them. 

—  Cato. 


And  so  the  blasts  of  calumny,  howl  they  ever  so  fiercely  over 
the  good  man's  head,  contribute  to  his  juster  appreciation  and 
to  his  wider  fame.  Preserve  only  a  good  conscience  toward 
God,  and  a  loving  purpose  toward  your  fellow  men,  and  you 
need  not  wince  nor  tremble,  though  the  pack  of  the  spaniel- 
hearted  hounds  snarl  at  your  heels. 

—  Wm.  Morley  Punshon. 


Is  the  scrupulous  attention  I  am  paying  to  the  government 
of  my  tongue  at  all  proportioned  to  that  tremendous  truth  re- 
vealed through  St.  James,  that  if  I  do  not  bridle  my  tongue,  all 
my  religion  is  vain  ? 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


216  EVOLUTION. 


EVOLUTION. 

God  has  been  always  working,  evolving,  in  His  quiet  power, 
from  the  seeming,  the  real,  from  the  false,  the  true.  Not  for 
nothing  blazed  the  martyr's  fires  —  not  for  nothing  toiled  brave 
sufferers  up  successive  hills  of  shame.  God's  purpose  doth  not 
languish.  The  torture  and  the  trial  of  the  past  have  been  the 
stern  ploughers  in  His  service  who  never  suspended  their  hus- 
bandry, and  who  have  made  long  their  furrows.  Into  those 
furrows  the  imperishable  seed  hath  fallen.  The  heedless  world 
hath  trodden  it  in;  tears  and  blood  have  watered  it;  the  patient 
sun  hath  warmed  and  cheered  it  to  its  ripening;  and  it  shall 
be  ready  soon. 


W-M.  M.   PUNSHON. 


The  tree  of  human  history,  as  it  has  grown  from  age  to  age, 
has  been  but  the  unfolding  of  a  single  germ  —  but  the  develop- 
ment of  Christ  and  Him  crucified. 

—  J.  McC.  Holmes. 


As  ages  roll  on  there  is  doubtless  a  progression  in  human 
nature.  The  intellectual  comes  to  rule  the  physical,  and  the 
moral  claims  to  subordinate  both.  It  is  no  longer  strength  of 
body  that  prevails,  but  strength  of  mind ;  while  the  law  of 
God  proclaims  itself  superior  to  both. 

—  James  McCosh. 


All  true  development  tends  ever  to  God.  Its  objective  aim 
is  the  restoration  by  the  second  Adam  of  the  Divine  image  for- 
feited by  the  first;  and,  incidentally,  it  transmutes  grief  into  glad- 
ness and  sighs  into  songs.  But  it  is  always  a  development  //; 
Christ,  since  it  is  only  "  in  the  unity  of  the  faith  and  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  Son  of  God "  that  any  of  our  race  can  come 
"vmto  a  perfect  man." 

—  T-  McC.  Holmes. 


EXAMPLE.  217 


EXAMPLE. 

The  best  teachers  of  humanity  are  the  lives  of  great  men. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler. 


We  can  do  more  good  by  being  good  than  in  any  other  way. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


No  man  or  woman  of  the  humblest  sort  can  really  be  strong, 
gentle,  pure,  and  good,  without  the  world  being  the  better  for 
it,  without  somebody  being  helped  and  comforted  by  the  very 
existence  of  that  goodness. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


What  you  learn  from  bad  habits  and  in  bad  society,  you  will 
never  forget,  and  it  will  be  a  lasting  pang  to  you.  I  tell  you  in 
all  sincerity,  not  as  in  the  excitement  of  speech,  but  as  I  would 
confess  and  have  confessed  before  God,  I  would  give  my  right 
hand  if  I  could  forget  that  which  I  have  learned  in  bad  society. 

—  John  B.  Gough. 

You  cannot  undo  your  acts.  If  you  have  depraved  another's 
will,  and  injured  another's  soul,  it  may  be  in  the  grace  of  God 
that  hereafter  you  will  be  personally  accepted,  and  the  conse- 
quence of  your  guilt  inwardly  done  away;  but  your  penitence 
cannot  undo  the  evil  you  have  done.  The  forgiveness  of  God  — 
the  blood  of  Christ  itself  —  does  not  undo  the  past. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Though  Manasseh  repented,  his  son  Amon  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father  in  his  wickedness,  but  not  in  his  right- 
eousness. Children  will  imitate  their  fathers  in  their  vices, 
seldom  in  their  repentance. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


218  FAITH. 

F. 

FAITH. 

Faith  is  the  subtle  chain 
That  binds  us  to  the  Infinite. 

—  Mrs.  E.  Oakes  Smith. 


Faith  is  the  key  that  unlocks  the  cabinet  of  God's  treasures; 
the  king's  messenger  from  the  celestial  world,  to  bring  all  the 
supplies  we  need  out  of  the  fullness  that  there  is  in  Christ. 

—  J.  Stephens.    - 


Faith  makes  the  discords  of  the  present,  the  harmonies  of 

the  future. 

—  Robert  Collyer. 


Faith  converses  with  the  angels,  and  antedates  the  hymns  of 

glory. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Faith  draws  the  poison  from  every  grief,  takes  the  sting  from 

every  loss,  and  quenches  the  fire  of  every  pain  ;  and  only  faith 

can  do  it. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Faith  is  the  backbone  of  the  social  and  the  foundation  of 
the  commercial  fabric  ;  remove  faith  between  man  and  man, 
and  society  and  commerce  fall  to  pieces.  There  is  not  a 
hcppy  home  on  earth  but  stands  on  faith  ;  our  heads  are  pil- 
lowed on  it,  we  sleep  at  night  in  its  arms  with  greater  security 
for  the  safety  of  our  lives,  peace,  and  prosperity  than  bolts  and 

bars  can  give. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


FAITH.  219 

Faith  is  a  practical  habit,  which,  like  every  other,  is  strength- 
ened and  increased  by  continual  exercise.  It  is  nourished  by 
meditation,  by  prayer,  and  the  devout  perusal  of  the  Scriptures; 
and  the  light  which  it  diffuses  becomes  stronger  and  clearer  by 
an  uninterrupted  converse  with  its  object,  and  a  faithful  com- 
pliance with  its  dictates. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


No  soul  is  desolate  as  long  as  there  is  a  human  being  for 
whom  it  can  feel  trust  and  reverence. 

—  George  Eliot. 


Never  yet  did  there  exist  a  full  faith  in  the  Divine  w^ord 
which  did  not  expand  the  intellect,  while  it  purified  the  heart  ; 
which  did  not  multiply  the  aims  and  objects  of  the  understand- 
ing, while  it  fixed  and  simplified  those  of  the  desires  and  feel- 
ings. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


Faith  is  seated  in  the  understanding  as  well  as  in  the  will. 
It  has  an  eye  to  see  Christ  as  well  as  a  wing  to  fly  to  Christ. 

—  Watson. 


In  reviewing  the  most  mysterious  doctrines  of  revelation,  the 
ultimate  appeal  is  to  reason,  not  to  determine  whether  she 
could  have  discovered  these  truths ;  not  to  declare  whether, 
considered  in  themselves,  they  appear  probable;  but  to  decide 
whether  it  is  not  more  reasonable  to  believe  what  God  speaks 
than  to  confide  in  our  own  crude  and  feeble  conceptions.  No 
doctrine  can  be  a  proper  object  of  our  faith,  which  is  not  more 
reasonable  to  believe  than  to  reject. 

—  Alexander. 


There  is  a  boundary  to  the   understanding,  and  when  it  is 
reached,  faith  is  the  continuation  of  reason. 

—  William  Adams. 


220  FAITH. 


Faith  is  the  revealer  of  knowledge ;  it  is  the  office  of  reasoji 
to  defend  that  knowledge  and  to  preserve  it  pure.  Independ- 
ent knowledge  —  the  knowledge  that  comes  not  through  faith  — 
whether  it  be  of  things  earthly  or  things  heavenly,  never  can  be 

ours. 

—  Sunday-School  Times. 


There  is  a  power  in  the  soul,  quite  separate  from  the  intel- 
lect, which  sweeps  away  or  recognizes  the  marvelous,  by  which 
God  is  felt.  Faith  stands  serenely  far  above  the  reach  of  the 
atheism  of  science.  It  does  not  rest  on  the  wonderful,  but  on 
the  eternal  wisdom  and  goodness  of  God.  The  revelation  of 
the  Son  was  to  proclaim  a  Father,  not  a  mystery.  No  science 
can  sweep  away  the  everlasting  love  which  the  heart  feels,  and 
which  the  intellect  does  not  even  pretend  to  judge  or  recog- 
nize. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Faith  is  the  inspiration  of  nobleness,  it  is  the  strength  of  in- 
tegrity; it  is  the  life  of  love,  and  is  everlasting  growth  for  it ;  it 
is  courage  of  soul,  and  bridges  over  for  our  crossing  the  gulf 
between  worldliness  and  heavenly-mindedness ;  and  it  is  the 
sense  of  the  unseen,  without  which  we  could  not  feel  God  nor 

hope  for  heaven. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Faith,  like  light,  should  ever  be  simple  and  unbending ; 
while  love,  like  warmth,  should  beam  forth  on  every  side,  and 
bend  to  every  necessity  of  our  brethren. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Given  a  man  full  of  faith,  you  will  have  a  man  tenacious  in 
purpose,  absorbed  in  one  grand  object,  simple  in  his  motives, 
in  whom  selfishness  has  been  driven  out  by  the  power  of  a 
mightier  love,  and  indolence  stirred  into  unwearied  energy. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


FAITH.  231 

Let  us  have  faith  that  right  makes  might  ;  and  in  that  faith, 
let  us,  to  thejend,  dare  to  do  our  duty  as  we  understand  it. 

—  Abraham  Lincoln. 


A  man  who  is  not  poor  nor  ill,  nor  about  to  be  stoned  to 
death,  must  not  distress  himself  if  he  does  not  feel  all  through 
his  life  what  faith  Stephen  had  only  in  his  last  moments. 

WiM.   MOUNTFORD. 


Faith,  though  it  hath  sometimes  a  trembling  hand,  it  must 

not  have  a  withered  hand,  but  must  stretch. 

—  Watson. 


Not  prayer  without  faith,  nor  faith  without  prayer,  but  prayer 
in  faith,  is  the  cost  of  spiritual  gifts  and  graces. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


Faith  looks  to  the  word   and  the  promise ;   that  is,  to  the 

truth.     But  hope  looks  to  that  which  the  word  has  promised, 

to  the  gift. 

—  Martin  Luther, 


Faith  is  the  champion  of  grace,  and  love  the  nurse;  but  hu- 
mility is  the  beauty  of  grace. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


There  is  a  grand  fearlessness  in  faith.  He  who  in  his  heart 
of  hearts  reverences  the  good,  the  true,  the  holy  —  that  is,  rev- 
erences God  —  does  not  tremble  at  the  apparent  success  of  at- 
tacks upon  the  outworks  of  faith.  They  may  shake  those  v,ho 
rest  on  those  outworks — they  do  not  move  him  whose  soul 
reposes  on  the  truth  itself.  He  needs  no  prop  or  crutches  to 
support  his  faith.  Founded  on  a  Rock,  Faith  can  afford  to 
gaze  undismayed  at  the  approaches  of  Infidelity. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


232  FAITH. 

The  faith  of  immortality  gives  to  ever}'  mind  that  cherishes 
it  a  certain  firmness  of  texture. 

WiLBERFORCE. 


All  the  strength  and  force  of  man  comes  from  his  faith  in 
things  unseen.  He  who  believes  is  strong;  he  who  doubts  is 
weak.  Strong  convictions  precede  great  actions.  The  man 
strongly  possessed  of  an  idea  is  the  master  of  all  who  are  un- 
certain and  wavering.  Clear,  deep,  living  convictions  rule  the 
world. 

—  JaiNies  Freeman  Clarke. 


Our  Lord  does  not  praise  the  centurion  for  his  amiable  care 
of  his  servants,  nor  for  his  generosity  to  the  Jews,  nor  for  his 
public  spirit,  nor  for  his  humility,  but  for  his  faith. 

—  William  Adams. 


Ye  children  of  promise,  who  are  awaiting  your  call  to  glory, 
take  possession  of  the  inheritance  that  now  is  yours.  By  faith 
take  the  promises.  Live  upon  them,  not  upon  emotions.  Re- 
member feeling  is  not  faith.  Faith  grasps  and  clings  to  the 
promises.  Faith  says,  "  I  am  certain,  not  because  feeling  testi- 
fies to  it,  but  because  God  says  it." 

—  Mandeville. 


Never  more  than  to-day  were  needed  the  men  of  calm  and 
resolute  faith.  Brothers,  to  your  knees  and  to  your  ranks  !  To 
your  knees  in  humblest  supplication  ;  to  your  ranks  in  steadfast 
bravery  which  no  foe  can  cause  to  quail.  Stand  forth  in  cour- 
age and  in  gentleness  for  the  truth  which  you  believe  to  be  al- 
lied to  Freedom  and  Progress  and  God.  Be  so  strong  that 
you  are  not  afraid  to  be  just.  Cherish  a  tender  humanity  and 
a  catholic  heart.  Then  take  your  stand,  calm  and  moveless  as 
the  stars. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  223 

If  you  have  any  faith,  give  me,  for  heaven's  sake,  a  share  of 
it !  Your  doubts  you  may  keep  to  yourself,  for  I  have  a  plenty 
of  my  own. 

—  Goethe. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 

Faith  in  Jesus  Christ  is  a  saving  grace,  whereby  we  receive  and 

rest  upon  Him  alone  for  salvation,  as  He  is  offered  to  us  in  the 

gospel. 

—  Westminster   Catechism. 


True  faith  is  not  only  a  certain  knowledge,  whereby  I  hold 
for  truth  all  that  God  has  revealed  to  us  in  His  word,  but  also 
an  assured  confidence,  which  the  Holy  Ghost  works  by  the 
gospel,  in  my  heart;  that  not  only  to  others  but  to  me  also,  re- 
mission of  sin,  everlasting  righteousness,  and  salvation  are 
freely  given  by  God  merely  of  grace,  only  for  the  sake  of 
Christ's  merits. 

—  Heidelberg  Catechism. 


Faith  is  the  gift  of  God,  wrought  by  the  Holy  Spirit  through 
the  means  of  grace,  in  the  heart  of  every  penitent  and  seeking 
sinner;  who  faithfully  uses  them. 

—  Evangelical  Lutheran  Catechism. 


This  saving  faith  is  the  perceiving,  believing,  and  resting 
upon  a  fact  —  the  atoning  death  of  Jesus  Christ.  The  failure 
to  understand  this  is  one  fruitful  cause  of  the  confusion  in 
many  minds  about  this  subject.  For  not  unfrequently  persons 
are  looking  into  their  own  hearts,  and  trying  to  discover  whether 
they  have  faith  or  not,  instead  of  looking  away  from  themselves 
altogether  at  the  object  of  faith. 

—  M.  R.  Vincent. 


224  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 

We  believe  that  the  very  beginning  and  end  of  salvation, 
and  the  sum  of  Christianity,  consists  of  faith  in  Christ,  who 
by  His  blood  alone,  and  not  by  any  works  of  ours,  has  put 
away  sin,  and  destroyed  the  power  of  death. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Let  it  be  borne  in  mind,  however,  that  the  merit  or 
efficiency  of  all  this  is  not  in  us,  or  in  faith  itself.  All  bless- 
ing, all  power,  all  efficiency  belong  to  God  alone.  These  He 
may  communicate  in  manner  and  measure  as  seems  best  to  His 
sovereign  will;  but  He  has  constituted  faith  the  nexus,  or 
electric  wire,  by  which  we  may  be  brought  into  connection  with 
His  inexhaustible  fullness.  The  tree  planted  in  rich  soil." 
surrounded  with  a  genial  atmosphere,  and  basking  under  the 
light  and  heat  of  the  sun,  possesses  an  appropriating  principle 
of  life,  by  which  it  appropriates  from  all  these  surrounding  ele- 
ments, and  assimilates  to  its  own  nature  whatever  is  adapted 
to  its  healthy  growth  and  fruitfulness.  These  things  do  not 
dwell  in  the  tree,  nor  in  the  appropriating  principle  itself. 
They  may  abound  in  all  their  fullness  and  richness;  but  let  the 
tree  be  without  this  appropriating  principle,  and  it  stands  in 
the  midst  of  them  all,  bare,  barren,  dead.  So  faith  is  the  ap- 
propriating principle  of  spiritual  life,  by  which,  if  properly  ex- 
ercised, we  may  appropriate  to  ourselves  out  of  the  Divine  full- 
ness. And,  as  in  proportion  to  the  healthy  exercise  of  the 
appropriating  principle  in  the  tree,  so  wall  be  its  growth  and 
fruitfulness,  so  in  proportion  as  faith  is  in  healthy,  spiritual 
exercise,  will  be  our  spiritual  growth,  fruitfulness,  and  triumphs. 
The  fullness  of  blessing  is  in  God;  we  become  partakers  by  faith. 

—  John  James. 


Faith  is  a  simple  trust  in  a  personal  Redeemer.     The  sim- 
pler our  trust  in  Christ  for  all  things,  the  surer  our  peace. 

—  William  Adams. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  225 

Faith  —  saving  faith  —  whatever  other  definition  may  be 
framed  —  is  best  described  as  that  act  of  the  soul  by  which  the 
whole  man  is  given  over  to  the  guardianship  of  the  Mediator. 
He  who  thus  resigns  himself  to  Jesus  avouches  two  things: 
first,  his  belief  that  he  needs  a  protector;  secondly,  his  belief 
that  Christ  is  just  that  protector  which  his  necessities  require. 

—  H::xRY  Melvill. 


Saving  faith  is   confidence  in   Jesus  ;    a  direct,  confidential 
transaction  with  Him. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


When  a  miner  looks  at  the  rope  that  is  to  lower  him  into  the 
deep  mine,  he  may  coolly  say,  "  I  have  faith  ///  that  rope  as 
well  made  and  strong."  But  when  he  lays  hold  of  it,  and 
swings  down  by  it  into  the  tremendous  chasm,  then  he  is  be- 
lieving on  the  rope.  Then  he  is  trusting  himself  to  the  rope. 
It  is  not  a  mere  opinion  —  it  is  an  act.  The  miner  lets  go  of 
every  thing  else,  and  bears  his  whole  weight  on  those  well 
braided  strands  of  hemp.     Now  that  is  faith. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


The  true  confidence  which   is  faith  in  Christ,  and  the  true 
diffidence  which  is  utter  distrust  of  myself  —  are  identical. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Faith  then,  in  its  relation  to  salvation,  is  that  confidence  by 
which  we  accept  it  as  a  free  gift  from  the  Saviour,  and  is  the 
only  possible  way  in  which  the  gift  of  God  could  be  appro- 
priated. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 

We  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  receive,  resting  absolutely  upon 
the  merit,  power,  and  love  of  our  Redeemer. 

—  William  James. 
IS 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 


Faith  is  the  act  of  trust   by  which  one  being,  a  sinner,  com- 
mits himself  to  another  being,  a  Saviour. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


We  are  not  saved  by  nations  or  by  churches  or  by  famihes, 
but  as  individuals,  through  a  personal  interest  in  a  personal 
Saviour.  — John  James. 

There  are  three  acts  of  faith,  assent,  acceptance,  and  assu7-ance. 

—  John  Flavel. 


The  act  of  the  soul,  in  surrendering  itself  into  the  hands  of 
Christ,  forms  a  connecting  bond  between  Him  as  the  Vine  and 
the  soul  as  the  branches,  which  communicates  life,  strength, 
nourishment,  and  beauty.  In  a  word,  with  a  just  view  of  the 
character,  and  a  supreme  attachment  to  the  person  of  Christ, 
the  believer  yields  himself  into  His  hands  as  a  full  and  com- 
plete Saviour.     Him  he  receives;   upon  Him  he  rests,  and  rests 

for  time  and  eternity. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


When  there  is  a  clear  reception  of  truth  as  revealed,  declared, 
or  testified  to,  the  soul  believes  in  that  truth.  There  is  here 
the  idea  of  transfer.  The  truth  has  been  received  through  or 
from  an  accredited  witness,  "  It  is  revealed  from  faith  to 
faith."  When  the  soul,  conscious  of  weakness  or  want,  looks 
to,  trusts  in,  or  waits  upon,  another  for  help  and  strength,  this 
is  resting  on,  relying  on,  acting  faith  on,  that  other  for  the  de- 
sired blessing.  And  when  the  soul  believes  or  acts  faith  into 
another,  there  is  an  entire  self-surrender  to  the  authority  and 
sovereign  will  of  that  other  to  rule.  There  is  here  the  idea  of 
the  soul  going  out  to  rest  on  the  power,  and  to  be  subordinate 
to,  the  authority  of  another.  Thus  the  Israelites  "  were  all 
baptized  tmto  or  into  Moses  in  the  cloud  and  in  the  sea." 

—  John  James. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 


^Vhen  iiie  sinner  is  brought  to  a  consciousness  of  his  io^t 
condition,  and  realizes  that  there  is  no  hope  for  him  except 
in  Christ  Jesus,  then  is  it  that  the  soul  believes  "  I'u^o  "  Christ. 
There  is  an  entire  self-surrender,  to  be  saved  by  the  Saviour, 
just  as  He  will,  and  a  complete  subordination  of  the  will  to  the 
supreme  authority  and  sovereign  will  of  his  Lord  and  Master. 
Here  is  the  true  involution  of  the  soul,  the  deepest  root  and 
highest  reach  of  faith,  whence  spring  its  true  life  and  fruitful- 
ness  and  glory.  It  is  the  finite  and  subdued  will  of  the  renewed 
man  rolled  inside  the  infinite  Avill  of  the  redeeming  Lord,  to 
be  governed  by,  and  to  beat  in  unison  with  His  will.  Its  nest- 
ling prayer  is,  "  Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  have  me  to  do  ?  " 

—  John  James. 


Its  very  essence  is  trust  upon  Him  and  His  sin-expiating 
and  life-purchasing  merits.  Its  very  essence  consists  in  its 
self-emptying,  self-denying,  Christ-grasping  energy. 

—  Charles  Hodge. 


Faith  is  trusting  Jesus  to  lead  us  and  going  loherc  He  leads. 
What  avails  it  to  me  to  analyze  Saratoga  water,  and  to  believe 
in  its  virtues  ?  I  must  drink  the  water  if  I  want  its  purifying 
power.  And  the  soul  that  has  not  actually  drunk  of  Christ  can 
never  be  purged  from  sin. 

T.   L.  CUYLER. 


This  is  faith,  receiving  the  tr\ith  of   Christ;    first  knowing  it 
to  be  true,  and  then  acting  upon  that  belief. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  first  thing  in  faith  is  knowledge.  What  we  know  we 
must  also  agree  unto.  What  we  agree  unto  we  must  rest  upon 
alone  for  salvation.  It  will  not  save  me  to  know  that  Christ  is 
a  Saviour;  but  it  will  save  me  to  trust  Him  to  be  77iy  Saviour. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


228  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 


Faith  refers  to  Christ.     Holiness  depends  on  faith.     Heaven 
depends  on  holiness. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


If  faith,  then  new  birth;  if  new  birth,  then  sonship;  if  son- 
ship,  then  "an  heir  of  God,  and  a  joint-heir  with  Christ." 
But  if  you  have  not  got  your  foot  upon  the  lowest  round  of 
the  ladder,  you  will  never  come  within  sight  of  the  blessed  face 
of  Him  who  stands  at  the  top  of  it,  and  who  looks  down  to  you 
at  this  moment,  saying  to  you,  "  My  child,  zuilt  thou  not  at  this 
time  cry  unto  me,  '  Abba,  Father? '  " 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Faith  is  the  vital  artery  of  the  soul.  When  we  begin  to  be- 
lieve, we  begin  to  love.  Faith  grafts  the  soul  into  Christ,  as 
the  scion  into  the  stock,  and  fetches  all  its  nutriment  from  the 

blessed  Vine. 

—  Watson. 


Faith  is  the  bond  of  union,  the  instrument  of  justification, 
the  spring  of  spiritual  peace  and  joy,  the  means  of  spiritual 
peace  and  subsistence. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Faith  has  a  saving  connection  with  Christ.  Christ  is  on  the 
shore,  so  to  speak,  holding  the  rope,  and  as  we  lay  hold  of  it 
with  the  hand  of  our  confidence,  He  pulls  us  to  shore;  but  all 
good  works  having  no  connection  with  Christ  are  drifted  along 
down  the  gulf  of  fell  despair. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


That  is  faith,  cleaving  to  Christ,  twining  round  Him  with  all 
the  tendrils  of  our  heart,  as  the  vine  does  round  its  support. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  229 

Faith  is  the  nail  which  fastens  the  soul  to  Christ;  and  love  is 
that  grace  that  drives  the  nail  to  the  head.  Faith  takes  hold 
of  Him,  and  love  helps  to  keep  the  grip.  Christ  dwells  in  the 
heart  by  faith,  and  He  burns  in  the  heart  by  love,  like  a  fire 
melting  the  breast.    Faith  casts  the  knot,  and  love  draws  it  fast. 

—  Erskine. 


Faith  in  Christ  is  not  an  exercise  of  the  understanding 
merely;  it  is  an  affection  of  the  heart.  "With  the  heart  man 
believeth."     To  those  who  believe  Christ  is  precious. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 

True  faith,  by  a  mighty  effort  of  the  will,  fixes  its  gaze  on  our 
Divine  Helper,  and  there  finds  it  possible  and  wise  to  lose  its 
fears.  It  is  madness  to  say,  "  I  will  not  be  afraid;  "  it  is  wis- 
dom and  peace  to  say,  "  I  will  trust  and  not  be  afraid." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Faith  that  trusts  on  Jesus  alone  for  salvation,  and  not  on 

your  respectable  life,  and  the  obedience  that  follows  Him,  are 

the  indispensable  steps  to  salvation.     You  admit  that  you  have 

not  taken  these  decisive  steps.     Then,  however  near  you  are, 

you  are  not  ///  Christ. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


Faith  has  in  it  the  recognition  of  the  certainty  and  the  jus- 
tice of  a  judgment  that  is  coming  down  crashing  on  every 
human  head;  and  then  from  the  midst  of  these  fears  and  sor- 
rows and  the  tempest  of  that  great  darkness  there  rises  up  in 
the  night  of  terrors  the  shining  of  one  perhaps  pale,  quivering, 
distant,  but  divinely  given  hope,  "  My  Saviour  !  My  Saviour  ! 
He  is  righteous;  He  has  died;  He  lives  !  I  will  stay  no  longer; 
I  will  cast  myself  upon  Him  !  " 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


230  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 

Faith  is  a  Christian's  right   eye,  without   which   he   cannot 

look  for  Christ ;  right   hand,  without  which   he  cannot  do    for 

Christ ;    it  is  his   tongue,  without   which   he   cannot  speak  for 

Christ  ;  it  is  his  vital  spirit,  without  which  he  cannot  act  for 

Christ. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Faith  does  not  first  ask  what  the  bread  is  made  of,  but  eats 
it.  It  does  not  analyze  the  components  of  the  living  stream, 
but  with  joy  draws  water  from  the  "wells  of  salvation." 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


These  poor  people  had  never  heard  the  distinctions  between 
intellectual  faith,  historic  faith,  and  saving  faith  ;  but  they  did 
as  they  were  taught,  —  reached  out  their  dirty  hands  to  take 
Christ,  and  attended  to  the  washing  of  their  hands  afterwards. 

—  W.  H.  Daniels. 


The  righteousness  which  is  by  faith  in   Christ  is  a  loving 

heart  and  a  loving  life,  which  every  man  will  long  to  lead  who 

believes  really  in  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


The  only  qualification  for  knowing  Divine  things  is  to  love 

them;  to  know  Christ  and  to  see  the  light  of  His  revelation,  we 

have  only  to  aspire  after  a  filial  temper. 

—  William  Adams. 


Tlijere  can  be  no  faith  so  feeble  that  Christ  does  not  respond 

to  it. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


One  look  outward  to  Jesus  and  you  are  saved;  not  a  look  in- 
ward to  a  feeling  that  can  give  nothing  but  despair  to  the  con- 
scientious soul. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  331 

Sensible  of  his  ill-desert  and  helplessness,  persuaded  of  the 
all-sufficiency  of  the  Redeemer,  the  believer  therefore  makes  a 
voluntary  surrender  of  himself  into  the  hands  of  Christ,  to  be 
saved  upon  His  own  terms.  He  relinquishes  his  vain  confidences, 
and  places  all  his  hopes  on  Christ.  He  casts  himself  into  His 
arms.     "  Lord,  to  whom  shall  I  go  but  to  Thee  ?  " 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


I  expect  eternal  life,  not  as  a  reward  of  merit,  but  a  pure  act 

of  bounty.     Detesting  myself  in  every  view  I  can  take,  I  fly  to 

the .  righteousness  and   atonement  of  my  great   Redeemer  for 

pardon  and  salvation ;  this  is  my  only  consolation  and  hope. 

"  Enter  not  into  judgment,  O  Lord,  with  Thy  servant ;  for  in 

Thy  sight  shall  no  flesh  be  justified." 

—  Elizabeth  Rowe. 


Relying  on  the  atonement  which  Christ  has  made,  and  de- 
siring to  be  saved  in  no  other  way,  I  commit  myself  into  Thy 
hands,  O  God,  my  Father!  Take  me,  and  do  with  me  as  Thou 
seest  to  be  for  Thy  glory.  I  consecrate  myself  forever  to  Thy 
service,  and  trust  for  acceptance  in  the  merits  of  Thy  Son. 

—  Samuel  Iren^us  Prime. 


Just  as  I  am  —  Thou  wilt  receive, 
Wilt  welcome,  pardon,  cleanse,  relieve; 
Because  Thy  promise  I  believe, 
O  Lamb  of  God,  I  come!  I  come! 

—  Charlotte  Elliott. 


Able  to  save  to  the  uttermost,  "  Lord  to  whom  shall  we  go ; 
Thou  hast  the  words  of  eternal  life?"  Thou  who  hast  abol- 
ished death,  upon  whom  else  shall  we  suspend  our  immor- 
tality ? 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


232  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 


If  you  feel  sincerely  sorry  on  account  of  your  sins,  and  be- 
lieve that  Christ  is  able  and  willing  to  forgive  you,  the  work  is 
done.  You  may  trust  with  all  the  confidence  of  a  child  who 
confesses  his  fault,  and  casts  himself  into  his  father's  arms. 
This  is  faith  ;  a  simple  trust  in  the  power  and  willingness  of 
the  Father  to  forgive,  for  the  sake  of  what  Christ  the  Son  has 
done. 

—  Sa^iuel  Iren^eus  Prime. 


Go  to  the  cross,  and  meet  there  God  in  sacrifice.  Behold 
Him  as  Jesus  bearing  your  sin,  receiving  the  shafts  of  your 
enmity  !  Embrace  Him,  believe  in  Him,  take  Him  to  your  in- 
most heart.  Do  this,  and  you  shall  feel  sin  die  within  you,  and" 
a  glorious  quickening,  Christ  the  power  of  God,  Christ  in  you 
the  hope  of  glory,  shall  be  consciously  risen  upon  you,  as  the 
morn  of  your  new  creation. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Virtuous  or  vile,  decent  or  indecent,  rich  or  poor,  receive  and 
rest  upon  Christ  noza  as  He  is  so  freely  offered  you ;  and  then 
you  may  believe  (not  feel)  that  your  sins  are  in  the  depths  of 
the  sea. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


I  am  a  sinner  and  a  debtor  to  God.  The  law  has  a  claim 
against  me ;  but  the  gospel  says  Christ  paid  that  claim  on  the 
cross.  I  believe  that.  I  take  that  death  as  good  for  my  claim, 
and  I  say  boldly,  "//  is  paid."  I  am  tired  of  sin.  Christ  bids 
me  rest  on  Him.  I  do  rest  on  Him.  He  tells  me  that  if  I  will 
put  myself,  sins  and  all,  with  all  my  weakness  —  put  my  stained 
past,  the  guidance  of  the  present,  the  whole  matter  of  the 
future,  into  His  hands,  and  leave  it  with  Him,  He  will  take  care 
of  the  whole.  I  do  put  it  all  into  His  hands.  I  lay  my  sins  on 
Jesus.     I  rest  my  whole  life  on  Him. 

—  M.  R.  Vincent, 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  233 

To  trust  God,  as  seen  in  the  face  of  His  Son,  and  to  believe 
that  He  loves  us,  that  is  faith,  that  is  what  we  must  do  to  be 
saved.  And  to  love  God,  as  seen  in  the  face  of  His  Son,  and 
to  seek  to  testify  our  love  by  our  whole  life,  —  that  is  Christian 
duty  ;  that  is  all  we  have  to  do. 

—  A.  H.  Boyd. 


Faith  from  its  essential  nature  implies  the  fallen  state  of 
man,  while  it  recognizes  the  principles  of  the  covenant  of  grace. 
It  is  itself  the  condition  of  that  covenant.  It  is  a  grace  which 
is  alike  distinguished  from  the  love  of  angels  and  the  faith  of 
devils.  It  is  peculiar  to  the  returning  sinner.  None  but  a  lost 
sinner  needs  it  ;  none  but  a  humbled  sinner  relishes  it. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


Now  I  saw  in  my  dream,  that  the  highway,  up  which  Chris- 
tian was  to  go,  was  fenced  on  either  side  with  a  wall,  and  that 
wall  was  called  salvation.  Up  this  way,  therefore,  did  bur- 
dened Christian  run,  but  not  without  great  difficulty,  because 
of  the  load  on  his  back.  He  ran  thus  till  he  came  at  a  place 
somewhat  ascending ;  and  upon  that  place  stood  a  cross,  and  a 
little  below,  in  the  bottom,  a  sepulchre.  So  I  saw  in  my  dream, 
that  just  as  Christian  came  up  with  the  cross,  his  burden  loosed 
from  off  his  shoulders,  and  fell  from  off  his  back,  and  began 
to  tumble,  and  so  continued  to  do  till  it  came  to  the  mouth  of 
the  sepulchre,  where  it  fell  in,  and  I  saw  it  no  more. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


I   have   taken  my  good  deeds  and  bad  deeds,  and  thrown 
them  together  into  a  heap,  and  fled  from  them  both  to  Christ, 

and  in  Him  I  have  peace. 

—  David  Dickson. 


O,  for  a  living  faith  in  a  living  Redeemer! 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


234  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 

When  you  have  given  yourself  to  Christ,  leave  yourself  there, 
and  go  about  your  work  as  a  child  in  His  household. 

—  C.  S.  Robinson. 


Child  of  God,  if  you  would  have  your  thought  of  God  some- 
thing beyond  a  cold  feeling  of  His  presence,  let  faith  appro- 
priate Christ, 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


When  you  sincerely  embrace  Jesus  as  your  Saviour,  and  rest 
on  His  atonement  for  pardon,  when  you  look  to  Him  for  daily 
direction,  lean  on  Him  for  support,  and  are  joined  to  Him  in 
heart  union,  then  you  may  be  sure  that  you  have  got  the  ever- 
lasting rock  bed  underneath  you. 

T.    L.   CUYLER. 


Here  then  is  man's  duty.  It  is  to  receive  that  free  and  full 
salvation  that  Christ  has  provided.  It  is  to  stretch  forth  the 
hand  of  faith,  and  with  it  take  the  proffered  salvation.  It  is  to 
cling  to  the  cross  as  the  only  hope  of  everlasting  life.  Will 
you  do  it  ?  Weary,  working,  plodding  one,  will  you,  ceasing 
all  this  vain  attempt  to  save  yourself,  receive  Christ,  and  Christ 
alone  as  your  Saviour?  — Henry  Darling. 


From  that  time  Mr.  Moody  ceased  to  urge  people  to  begin 

their  religious  life  by  finding  something  to  do  for  Christ  ;  but 

insisted  that,  first  of  all,  they  should  let  Christ  do  something 

for  them.     If  they  would  only  believe,  Christ  would  help  them 

to  be  and  to  do. 

—  W.  H.  Daniels. 


With  Mary  and  Thomas,  with  the  millions  who  have  lived 
and  died  triumphant  in  the  blessed  assurance  of  the  infinite 
love  and  omnipotence  of  Christ,  we  can  stand  by  that  middle 
cross,  and  say  adoringly,  lovingly,  joyfully,  "  My  Brother !  my 
Lord  !  my  God  !  " 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  235 

Dear  seeker  of  salvation,  doubting,  fearing  Christian,  you 
are  beaten  by  the  billows  of  sin  and  fear,  swept  by  the  gusts  of 
doubt.  Look  through  the  mists,  and  behold  the  pilot !  Christ 
comes  to  you  to  take  every  thing  in  charge.  Will  you  let  Him 
come  ?  Will  you  give  Him  charge  ?  Will  you  just  throw  off 
the  whole  load  of  sin,  doubt,  and  fear  on  Him,  and  resti 

—  M.  R.  Vincent. 


If  you  could  once  get  away,  my  friends,  from  that  sense  of 
mediocrity  and  nothingness  to  which  you  are  shut  up,  under 
the  stupor  of  your  self-seeking  and  your  sin,  how  easy  would  it 
be  for  you  to  believe !  Nay,  if  but  some  faintest  suspicion 
could  steal  into  you  of  what  your  soul  is,  and  the  tremendous 
evils  working  in  it,  nothing  but  the  mystery  of  Christ's  death 
and  passion  would  be  sufficient  for  you. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Nothing  but  Christian  faith  gives  to  the  furthest  future  the 

solidity  and  definiteness  which  it  must  have  if  it  is  to  be  a 

breakwater  for  us  against  the  fluctuating  sea  of  present  cares 

and  thoughts, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Above  all  things  I  entreat  you  to  preserve  your  faith  in 
Christ.  It  is  my  wealth  in  poverty,  my  joy  in  sorrow,  my 
peace  amid  tumult.  For  all  the  evil  I  have  committed,  my 
gracious  pardon;  and  for  every  effort,  my  exceeding  great  re- 
ward. I  have  found  it  to  be  so.  I  can  smile  with  pity  at  the 
infidel  whose  vanity  makes  him  dream  that  I  should  barter 
such  a  blessing  for  the  few  subtleties  from  the  school  of  the 

cold-blooded  sophists. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


This  is  the  work  of  God  that  ye  believe  on  Him  whom  He 
hath  sent. 


236  FAITH  IN  CHRIST. 

Oh,  my  soul !  why  art  thou  so  often  disquieted  within 
thee  ?  How  is  it  that  thou  hast  so  little  faith  ?  Wilt  thou 
never  learn  that  Jesus  has  even  the  least  of  His  little  boats 
always  under  His  watchful  eye,  and  all  the  winds  and  the  waves 
obey  Him  ? 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Seek  for  a  fresh  invoice  of  grace.  Unbelief  can  scoff  or 
growl;  faith  is  the  nightingale  that  sings  in  the  darkest  hour. 
Faith  can  draw  honey  out  of  the  rock  and  oil  out  of  the  flint. 
With  Christ  in  possession  and  heaven  in  reversion,  it  marches 
to  the  time  of  the  One-hundred-and-third  Psalm  over  the 
roughest  road,  and  against  the  most  cutting  blast. 

—  T.  L.   CuYLER. 


We  must  not  think  that  faith  itself  is  the  soul's  rest;  it  is  only 
the  means  of  it.  We  cannot  find  rest  in  any  work  or  duty  of 
our  own,  but  we  may  find  it  in  Christ,  whom  faith  apprehends 
for  justification  and  salvation. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Faith,  considered  as  a  habit,  is  no  more  precious  than  other 
gracious  habits  are;  but  considered  as  an  instrument  to  receive 
Christ  and  His  righteousness,  it  excels  them  all;  and  this  in- 
strumentality of  faith  is  noted  in  the  phrases,  "  by  faith,"  and 
"  through  faith." 

—  John  Flavel. 


If  we  bear  an  inward  enmity  to  all  sins  because  they  are 
offensive  to  God,  if  we  can  say  that  it  is  the  desire  of  our  souls 
to  love  Christ  above  all  things,  and  to  be  eternal  debtors  to 
free  grace,  reigning  through  His  righteousness,  then  we  may 
warrantably  conclude,  that  our  faith,  however  weak,  is  yet  of  a 
saving  nature. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


FAITH  IN  CHRIST.  237 


No  man's  salvation  depends  on  his  believing  that  he  believes  ; 
but  it  does  depend  on  his  seeing  and  receiving  Jesus  Christ  as 
his  Saviour. 

—  M.  R.  Vincent. 


We  shall  never  recover  the  true  apostolic  energy,  and  be  en- 
dued with  power  from  on  high,  as  the  first  disciples  were,  till 
we  recover  the  lost  faith. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


It  appears  to  me  that,  even  within  the  recollection  of  living 
men,  the  Christian  faith  has  come  to  be  less  and  less  regarded  as 
a  commanding  and  mighty  power  from  heaven,  a  voice  of  au- 
thority, a  law  of  holy  life,  but  more  and  more  as  an  easy  going 
guide  to  future  enjoyment,  to  a  universal  happiness  and  an  in- 
discriminate salvation. 

—  Bishop  Huntington. 


The  act  of  faith,  which  separates  us  from  all  men,  unites  us 
for  the  first  time  in  real  brotherhood ;  and  they  who,  one  by 
one,  come  to  Jesus  and  meet  Him  alone,  next  find  that  they 
are  come  to  the  city  of  God  "  and  to  an  innumerable  com- 
pany." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


It  avails  nothing  that  the  ocean  stretches  shoreless  to  the 
horizon;  a  jar  can  hold  only  a  jarful.  The  receiver's  capacity 
determines  the  amount  received,  and  the  receiver's  desire  de- 
termines his  capacity.  The  law  has  ever  been,  "  According  to 
your  faith  be  it  unto  you." 


Logically,  faith  comes  first,  and  love  next;  but  in  life  they 
will  spring  up  together  in  the  soul;  the  interval  which  sep- 
arates them  is  impalpable,  and  in  every  act  of  trust,  love  is 
present;  and  fundamental  to  every  emotion  of  love  to  Christ  is 
trust  in  Christ.  — Alexander  Maclaren. 


238  FAITH  IN  GOD. 


When  in  your  last  hour  (think  of  this)  all  faculty  in  the 
broken  spirit  shall  fade  away,  and  sink  into  inanity  —  imagina- 
tion, thought,  effort,  enjoyment  —  then  will  the  flower  of  belief, 
which  blossoms  even  in  the  night,  remain  to  refresh  you  with 

its  fragrance  in  the  last  darkness. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


In  faith  and  hope 
Earth  I  resign; 

Secure  of  heaven, 
For  I  am  Thine! 


—  ZWINGLE. 


FAITH  IN  GOD. 

Faith,  then,  generically,  is  confidence  in  a  personal  being. 
Specifically,  religious  faith  is  confidence  in  God,  in  every  re- 
spect and  office  in  which  He  reveals  Himself.  As  that  love  of 
which  God  is  the  object,  is  religious  love,  so  that  confidence  in 
Him  as  a  Father,  a  Moral  Governor,  a  Redeemer,  a  Sanctifier, 
in  all  the  modes  of  His  manifestation,  by  which  we  believe 
whatever  He  says  because  He  says  it,  and  commit  ourselves 
and  all  our  interests  cheerfully  and  entirely  into  His  hands,  is 
religious  faith. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Faith  is  letting  down   our  nets  into  the  transparent  deeps  at 
the  Divine  command,  not  knowing  what  we  shall  take. 

—  F.  W,  Faber. 


Faith  is  a  grasping  of  Almighty  power  ; 

The  hand  of  man  laid  on  the  arm  of  God  ;  — 

The  grand  and  blessed  hour  in  which  the  things  impossible 

to  me 
Become  the  possible,  O  Lord,  through  Thee. 

—  A.  E.  Hamilton. 


FAITH  IN  GOD.  239 


Let  us  aspire  towards  this  living  confidence,  that  it  is  the 
will  of  God  to  unfold  and  exalt  without  end  the  spirit  that  en- 
trusts itself  to  Him  in  well-doing  as  to  a  faithful  Creator. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


So  for  us,  the  condition  and  preparation  on  and  by  which 
we  are  sheltered  by  that  great  hand,  is  the  faith  that  asks,  and 
the  asking  of  faith.  We  must  forsake  the  earthly  props,  but 
we  must  also  believingly  desire  to  be  upheld  by  the  heavenly 
arms.  We  make  God  responsible  for  our  safety  when  we  aban- 
don other  defense,  and  commit  ourselves  to  Him. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Orthodoxy  can  be  learnt  from  others  ;  living  faith  must  be  a 
matter  of  personal  experience. 

BiJCHSEL. 


The  last  decisive  energy  of  a  rational  courage  which  con- 
fides in  the  Supreme  Power,  is  very  sublime.  It  makes  a  man 
who  intrepidly  dares  every  thing  that  can  oppose  or  attack 
him  within  the  sphere  of  mortality  —  who  will  press  toward  his 
object  while  death  is  impending  over  him  —  who  would  retain 
his  purpose  unshaken  amidst  the  ruins  of  the  world. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


God  does  not  give  us  ready  money.  He  issues  promissory 
notes,  and  then  pays  them  when  faith  presents  them  at  the 
throne.     Each  one  of  us  has  a  check-book. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


He  that  buildeth  his  nest  upon  a  Divine  promise  shall  find 

it  abide  and  remain  until  he  shall  fly  away  to  the  land  where 

promises  are  lost  in  fulfillments. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


240  FAITH  IN  GOD. 


God  cannot  lie  ;  and  if,  fleeing  for  refuge,  you  have  run  to 
the  hope  set  before  you  in  the  gospel  —  if,  nestling  in  some 
invitation  or  promise  of  God's  changeless  word,  you  are  re- 
solved that  Death  and  the  Judgment  shall  find  you  there,  you 
are  safe.  The  way  to  honor  God  is  to  trust  His  truth,  and 
hidden   in  His  word  you  are  also  hidden  in  His  love.     Rest 

there. 

—  James  Hamilton. 

If  we  had  strength  and   faith  enough   to  trust  ourselves  efi- 

tirely  to  God,  and  follow  Him  simply  wherever  He  should  lead 

us,  we  should  have  no  need  of  any  great  effort  of  mjnd  to  reach 

perfection. 

—  Fenelon. 


The  soul  seeks  God  by  faith,  not  by  the  reasonings  of  the  mind 
and  labored  efforts,  but  by  the  drawings  of  love ;  to  which  in- 
clinations God  responds,  and  instructs  the  soul,  which  co-oper- 
ates actively.  God  then  puts  the  soul  in  a  passive  state  where 
He  accomplishes  all,  causing  great  progress,  first  by  way  of 
enjoyment,  then  by  privation,  and  finally  by  pure  love. 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


If  our  faith  in  God  is  not  the  veriest  sham,  it  demands,  and 
will  produce,  the  abandonment  sometimes,  the  subordination 
always,  of  external  helps  and  material  good. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  would  walk  with  Thee  when  Thou  smitest  us,  and  we 

would  walk  with  Thee  when  Thou  smilest  upon  us  ;  for,  smiling 

or  smiting,  it  is  in  love.     We  take  chastisement  because  we  are 

sons,  and  Thou  art  Father.     O   grant  that  we  may  never  feel 

Thy  hand  as   Judge!     Restrain  us  with  Thy  love.     Wean  us 

from  our  sin,  and  from  the  love  of  it,  and  bring  us  back  to 

Thine  own  self. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


FALSEHOOD.  241 


I  envy  no  quality  of  the  mind  or  intellect  in  others  ;  not  gen- 
ius, power,  wit,  nor  fancy ;  but,  if  I  could  choose  what  would 
be  most  delightful,  and,  I  believe,  most  useful  to  me,  I  should 
prefer  a  firm  religious  belief  to  every  other  blessing. 

—  Sir  Humphry  Davy. 


Serve  God,  and  God  will  take  care  of  you.     Submit  to  His 

will,  trust  in  His  grace,  and  resign  yourself  into  His  hands  with 

the  assurance  that  the  Lord  is  well  pleased  with  those  "  that 

hope  in  His  mercy." 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


You  cannot  be  too  active  as  regards  your  own  efforts  ;  you 

cannot  be  too  dependent  as  regards  Divine  grace.     Do  every 

thing  as  if  God  did  nothing  ;  depend  upon  God  as  if  He  did 

every  thing. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


Large  asking  and  large  expectation  on  our  part  honor  God.^ 

—  A.  L.  Stone. 


Faith  ever  says,  "  If  Thou  wilt,"  not  "  If  Thou  canst," 

—  Martin  Luther. 


An  active  faith  can  give  thanks  for  a  promise  even  though 
it  be  not  yet  performed,  knowing  that  God's  bonds  are  as  good 
as  ready  money. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


FALSEHOOD. 

Wisdom  and  truth,  the  offspring  of  the  sky,  are  immortal  ; 
while  cunning  and  deception,  the  meteors  of  the  earth,  after 
glittering  for  a  moment,  must  pass  away. 

—  Robert  Hall. 
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242  FAxAIE. 

Dishonor  waits  on  perfidy.     A  man  should  blush  to  think  a 
falsehood  ;  it  is  the  crime  of  cowards. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


Lie  not,  neither  to  thyself  nor  men  nor  God.  Let  mouth 
and  heart  be  one  —  beat  and  speak  together,  and  make  both 
felt  in  action.     It  is  for  cowards  to  lie. 

—  George  Herbert. 


I  have  seldom  known  any  one  who  deserted  truth  in  trifles 
that  could  be  trusted  in  matters  of  importance. 

—  Paley. 


Dissimulation  in  5^outh  is  the  forerunner  of  perfidy  in  old 
age  ;  its  first  appearance  is  the  fatal  omen  of  growing  deprav- 
ity and  future  shame. 

—  Blair. 


FAME. 


No   true  and   permanent  fame   can  be  founded,  except  in 
labors  which  promote  the  happiness  of  mankind. 

—  Charles  Sumner. 


The  highest  greatness,  surviving  time  and  stone,  is  that  which 
■proceeds  from  the  soul  of  man.  Monarchs  and  cabinets,  gen- 
erals and  admirals,  with  the  pomp  of  court  and  the  circumstance 
of  war,  in  the  lapse  of  time  disappear  from  sight ;  but  the 
pioneers  of  truth,  though  poor  and  lowly,  especially  those  whose 
example  elevates  human  nature,  and  teaches  the  rights  of  man, 
so  that  "  a  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the 
people,  may  not  perish  from  the  earth  ;  "  such  a  harbinger  can 
never  be  forgotten,  and  their  renown  spreads  co-extensive  with 

the  cause  they  served  so  well. 

—  Charles  Sumner. 


FEAR.  343 

Live  for  something  !  Do  good  and  leave  behind  you  a  mon- 
ument of  virtue  that  the  storm  of  time  can  never  destroy. 
Write  your  name  in  kindness,  love,  and  mercy  on  the  hearts  of  the 
thousands  you  come  in  contact  with,  year  by  year,  and  you  will 
never  be  forgotten.  Your  name,  your  deeds,  will  be  as  legible 
on  the  hearts  you  leave  behind,  as  the  stars  on  the  brow  of  even- 
ing.    Good  deeds  will  shine  as  the  stars  of  heaven. 

—  Chalmers. 


I  have  learned  to  prize  the  quiet,  lightning  deed,  not  the  ap- 
plauding thunder  at  its  heels  that  men  call  fame. 

—  A.  Smith. 


How  idle  a  boast,  after  all,  is  the  immortality  of  a  name  ! 
Time  is  ever  silently  turning  over  his  pages  ;  we  are  too  much 
engrossed  by  the  story  of  the  present  to  think  of  the  character 
and  anecdotes  that  gave  interest  to  the  past ;  and  each  age  is 
a  volume  thrown  aside  and  forgotten. 

—  Washington  Irving. 


FEAR. 


Fear  is  entirely  based  on  a  consideration  of  some  possible,  per- 
sonal, evil  consequence  coming  down  upon  me  from  the  clear 
sky  above  me.  Love  is  based  upon  the  forgetfulness  of  self  al- 
together. The  very  essence  of  love  is  that  it  looks  away  from 
itself,  and  to  another. 


Nothing  so  demoralizes  the  forces  of  the  soul  as  fear.  Only 
as  we  realize  the  presence  of  the  Lord  does  fear  give  place  to 
faith.  — Sarah  Smiley. 


It  is  only  the  fear  of  God  that  can  deliver  us  from  the  fear 
of  man.  — Witherspoon. 


244  FEELING. 


There  is  a  virtuous  fear,  which  is  the  effect  of  faith ;  and 
there  is  a  vicious  fear,  which  is  the  product  of  doubt.  The 
former  leads  to  hope,  as  relying  on  God,  in  whom  we  believe; 
the  latter  inclines  to  despair,  as  not  relying  on  God,  in  whom 
we  do  not  believe.  Persons  of  the  one  character  fear  to  lose 
God  ;  persons  of  the  other  character  fear  to  find  Him. 

—  Pascal. 


He  has  but  one  great  fear  that  fears  to  do  wrong. 

BOVEE. 


Fear  is  the  preface  to  love  ;  and  if  it  be  in  thy  soul,  my 
brother,  let  it  lead  thee  to  the  place  where  there  shall  dawn . 
upon  thy  heart  that  great  and  Divine  vision  of  a  face  all  full  of 
mercy,  of  a  heart  all  full  of  love,  of  a  Christ  that  hath  died  for 
thee,  of  a  Father  that  bends  down  to  bless  thee  :  —  and  then 
cast  thyself  down  there  and  say,  "  I  trembled  because  I  hated. 
Thou  hast  loved  me,  and  I  am  overcome.  I  love,  and  am  glad. 
Father,  Thy  side  is  my  home.  Thou  art  the  portion  of  my 
heart  and  my  joy  forever." 


FEELING. 

"  Verily  I  say  unto  you,  he   that  heareth  my  word  and  be- 

lieveth  on  Him  that  sent  me,  hath  everlasting  life,  and  shall  not 

come  into  condemnation,  but  is  passed  from  death  unto  life." 

My  friend,  that  is  worth  more   than  all  the  feeliitg  you  can 

have  in  a  life-time. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Tears  never  yet  saved  a  soul.  Hell  is  full  of  weepers  weep- 
ing over  lost  opportunities,  perhaps  over  the  rejection  of  an 
offered  Saviour.  Your  Bible  does  not  say  "Weep,  and  be 
saved. "  It  says,  "  Believe,  and  be  saved."  Faith  is  better 
than  feeling. 

—  T.  L.  CUYLER. 


FELLOWSHIP  WITH  CHRIST  AND  GOD.  245 

My  friends,  does  God  invite  you  ?  If  He  does,  why  don't 
you  accept  the  invitation  ?  If  you  want  to  come,  just  come 
along,  and  don't  be  talking  about  feeling.  Do  you  think  Laz- 
arus had  any  feeling  when  Christ  called  him  out  of  the  sepul- 
chre ? 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Still  dost  thou  wait  for  feeling  ?     Dost  thou  say, 

"Fain  would  I  love  and  trust,  but  hope  is  dead; 
I  have  no  faith,  and  without  faith,  who  may 

Rest  in  the  blessing  which  is  only  shed 
Upon  the  faithful?     I  must  stand  and  wait." 

Not  so.     The  Shepherd  does  not  ask  of  thee 
Faith  in  thy  faith,  but  only  faith  in  Him. 

And  this  He  meant  in  saying,  "  Come  to  me  !  " 
In  light  or  darkness  seek  to  do  His  will, 

And  leave  the  work  of  faith  to  Jesus  still. 


Though  there  is  nothing  more  dangerous,  yet  there  is  noth- 
ing more  ordinary,  than  for  weak  saints  to  make  their  sense 
and  feeling  the  judge  of  their  condition.  We  must  strive  to 
walk  by  faith. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 

FELLOWSHIP  WITH  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

The  Christian's  fellowship  with  God  is  rather  a  habit  than  a 
rapture. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


The  greatest  truths  are  ever  known  through  the  heart ;  and 
this  sublimest  of  all  truths,  the  amazing  sacrifice  which  Eternal 
Love  has  made  for  guilty  man,  can  be  comprehended  only  by 
the  heart,  —  by  communion  with  that  Love  in  its  sorrows,  sac- 
rifices, triumphs,  joys. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


246  FELLOWSHIP  WITH  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

Fellowship  with  Jesus  lies  not  alone  in  pleasurable  emotions; 
you  must  learn  it  in  suffering  and  in  service. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


The  oblation  of  the  cross  is  perpetuated,  carried  on  —  not 
materially,  but  spiritually  —  in  every  heart,  in  every  life  which 
is  consecrated  to  a  crucified  Jesus  and  to  His  suffering  cause. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Happy  the  heart  to  whom  God  has  given  enough  strength 
and  courage  to  suffer  for  Him,  to  find  happiness  in  simplicity 
and  the  happiness  of  others. 

—  Lavater. 


In  our  weakness,    His  strength  is  ours.     In   our  conflicts, 

His  victories  are  ours.      In  our    bereavements  and  sorrows. 

His  grace  is  ours.     He  had  not  where  to  lay  His  weary  head, 

that  we  might  have   His  bosom  on  which  to   lean  our  fevered 

brows.     He  endured  the  cross,  and  despised  the  shame,  that, 

instead  of  weeping  and  wailing,  we  might  share  His  immortal 

blessedness. 

—  Richard  Fuller, 


To  know  Jesus  Christ  for  ourselves  is  to  make  Him  a  conso- 
lation, delight,  strength,  righteousness,  companion,  and  end. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


He  came  down  even  to  the  grave,  and  became  the  dead  One 
for  me.  I  believe  in  Him,  and,  as  one  with  Him,  I  leap  at  one 
bound  straight  out  of  my  grave  up  to  His  throne.  "  I  am  cru- 
cified with  Christ;  nevertheless  I  live;  yet  not  I,  but  Christ  liveth 
in  me."  This  is  not  a  matter  of  feeling,  but  all  a  matter  of 
faith,  merely  apprehending  the  grace  of  God,  "  I  live  by  the 
faith  of  the  Son  of  God,  who  loved  me,  and  gave  Himself  for  me." 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


FIDELITY.  247 

Just  in  proportion  as  the  soul  is  in  fellowship  with  the  Lord 
Jesus,  in  communion  with  His  will,  shall  we  trace  His  leadings, 
hear  His  voice,  and  understand  in  part. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


Though  you  are  weak  and  frail,  though  you  are  poor  and 
helpless,  God  does  not  despise  you  ;  but  would  glorify  your 
being  with  His  own,  and  raise  you  to  fellowship  with  Himself. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


Speak  low  to  me,  my  Saviour,  low  and  sweet, 
From  out  the  hallelujahs,  sweet  and  low. 
Lest  I  should  fear,  and  fall,  and  miss  Thee  so. 
Who  art  not  missed  by  any  that  entreat. 

—  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 


FIDELITY. 

Be  but  faithful,  that  is  all  ; 
Go  right  on,  and  close  behind  thee 
There  shall  follow  still  and  find  thee 
Help,  sure  help. 

—  Arthur  HughClough. 


Let  it  be  ours  to  be  self-reliant  amidst  hosts  of  the  vacillating 
—  real  in  a  generation  of  triflers  —  true  amongst  a  multitude  of 
shams ;  when  tempted  to  swerve  from  principle,  sturdy  as  an 
oak  in  its  maintenance ;  when  solicited  by  the  enticement  of 
sinners,  firm  as  a  rock  in  our  denial. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


A  certain  sober  judgment  ought  to  mark  Christians.  They 
should  be  like  the  needle  in  the  mariner's  compass,  not  like  the 
pendulum  which  within  its  limited  range  is  always  going  from 
one  extreme  to  another. 


24S  FIDELITY. 

Oh !  it  irradiates  all  our  days  with  lofty  beauty,  and  it 
makes  them  all  hallowed  and  divine,  when  we  feel  that  not  the 
apparent  greatness,  not  the  prominence  nor  noise  with  which  it 
is  done,  nor  the  external  consequences  which  flow  from  it,  but 
the  motive  from  which  it  flowed,  determines  the  worth  of  our 
deed  in  God's  eyes.  Faithfulness  is  faithfulness,  on  whatsoever 
scale  it  be  set  forth. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  the  fight  thickens  the  captain  says,  "  Steady,  boys  ;" 
and  it  is  their  steadiness  which  pulls  the  soldiers  through.  Fitful 
soldiers  are  rarely  useful  ones.  That  is  our  great  need  to-day, 
steady  Christians  —  men  and  women  you  can  count  on.  Many 
Christians  are  like  intermittent  springs.  They  flow  to-day  — 
to-morrow  you  cannot  get  a  thimbleful  of  religious  activity  out 
of  the  dried  channel  of  their  lives.  — Wayland. 


Only  be  steadfast,  never  waver, 
Nor  seek  earth's  favor, 
But  rest ; 
Thou  knowest  what  God  wills  must  be 
For  all  His  creatures — so  for  thee  — 
The  best. 

—  Paul  Fleming. 


The  root  of  all  steadfastness  is  in  consecration  to  God. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


If,  after  an  absolute  consecration  to  Him,  and  a  conviction  in 
conscience  that  He  requires  something  of  us,  we  hesitate,  delay, 
lose  courage,  dilute  what  He  would  have  us  do,  indulge  fear  for 
our  comfort  or  safety,  desire  to  shield  ourselves  from  suffering 
and  obloquy,  or  seek  to  find  some  excuse  for  not  performing  a 
difficult  or  painful  duty,  we  are  truly  guilty  in  His  sight. 

—  Fenelon. 


FOLLOWING  JESUS.  249 

And  Heaven  is  kind  to  the  faithful  heart  ; 

And  if  we  are  patient  and  brave  and  cahn, 
Our  fruits  will  last  though  our  flowers  depart. 

—  D.  M.  Craik. 


FOLLOWING  JESUS. 

We  must  follow  Jesus  Christ,  step  by  step,  and  not  open  up 
a  path  for  ourselves.  We  can  only  follow  Him  by  denying 
ourselves.    "Ye  are  not  your  own." 

—  Fenelon. 


The  true  Christian,  who  has  the  spirit  of  Jesus,  will  say,  as 
Ruth  said  to  Naomi,  "Whither  thou  goest,  I  wnll  go;"  what- 
ever difficulties  and  dangers  may  be  in  the  way. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Under  the  banner  of  the  Saviour's  dying  love,  I  feel  it  to  be 
the  most  precious  privilege  in  the  universe  to  deny  myself,  to 
take  up  my  cross,  and  to  follow  the  Lord  whithersoever  He- 
goeth. 

—  Mary  Lyon. 


Follow  after  Him  though  it  may  be  at  an  immeasurable  dis- 
tance. Follow  Him  in  His  long  endurance  and  His  great 
humility.  Follow  Him  with  a  bold  and  cheerful  spirit  in  the 
happy  and  glorious  victory  which  He  won  over  sin  and  over 
death,  and  in  the  end  thou  shalt  find  in  Him  the  true  commun- 
ion and  fellowship  which  He  only  can  give. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


We  must  imitate  Jesus  ;  live  as  He  lived,  think  as  He  thought, 
and  be  conformed  to  His  image,  which  is  the  seal  of  our  sanc- 
tification. 

—  Fenelon. 


250  FOLLOWING  JESUS. 


Believing  on  Christ,  learning  of  Christ,  following  Christ, — 
this  is  what  it  is  to  be  a  Christian.  You  must  believe  on  Him 
that  you  may  learn  of  Him.  You  must  learn  of  Him  that  you 
may  follow  Him.  But  believing  is  nothing,  and  learning  is  less 
than  nothing,  if  they  do  not  result  in  faithful  following. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


The  secret  of  all  our  dryness,  the  root  of  all  our  weakness,  our 

want  of  fruit  and  progress,  our  dearth   and  desolation,  is,  that 

we  do  not  follow  Christ.     First,  we  do  not  believe  that  He  has 

any  particular  care  of  us,  or  personal  interest  in  our  lives,  and 

then,  falling   away  at   that  point  from    His  lead,  we  drop  into 

ourselves,  to  do  a  few  casual  works  of  duty,  in  which  neither  we 

nor  others  are  greatly  blessed. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


There  are  two  paths  in  which  the  Christian  follows  Christ  in 
this  world, —  paths  which  are  always  parallel,  and  which  often 
merge  into  one, —  the  path  of  integrity,  and  the  path  of  benev- 
olence. In  doing  right  and  in  doing  good  the  Christian  is  a 
follower  of  Christ. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


It  sweetens  every  bit  of  work  to  think  that  I  am  doing  it  in 
humble,  far-off,  yet  real  imitation  of  Jesus. 


—  E.  Prentiss. 


Get  into  sympathy  with  Jesus.  Seek  His  presence,  seek  His 
help.  And  walking  through  the  world  in  His  company,  you 
will  be  as  balm  in  the  bleakest  weather,  a  benediction  in  the 
wildest  scene. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


God  never  gave  a  man  a  thing  to  do  concerning  which  it  were 
irreverent  to  ponder  how  the  Son  of  God  would  have  done  it. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


FORGIVENESS.  251 


It  is  a  good  thing  to  follow  Jesus  with  our  eyes  open.  That  is 
walking  both  by  sight  and  faith.  But  it  is  better  to  follow  Jesus 
blindly  than  not  to  follow  at  all. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


Never  do  what  you  cannot  ask  Christ  to  bless ;  and  never  go 
into  any  place  or  any  pursuit  in  which  you  cannot  ask  Christ 
Jesus  to  go  with  you. 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


If  washed  in  Jesus'  blood, 

Then  bear  His  likeness  too, 
And  as  you  onward  press 

Ask,  "  What  would  Jesus  do  ?  " 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


Precious  Saviour  !  glorious  Forerunner  !  oh,  give  us  grace  to 
follow  Thee ;  and  whenever  tempted  to  relax  our  efforts,  or 
loiter  on  our  journey,  or  complain  of  the  way,  may  we  re- 
member that  Thou  hast  traveled  every  step  of  the  way  before 
us,  and  art  now  waiting  to  welcome  us  into  Thy  presence  and 
glory. 

—  James  Smith. 

FORGIVENESS. 

To  do  evil  for  good  is  human  corruption ;  to  do  good  for 
good  is  civil  retribution ;  but  to  do  good  for  evil  is  Christian 
perfection.  Though  this  be  not  the  grace  of  nature,  it  is  the 
nature  of  grace. 

—  Archbishop  Secker. 


Never  does  the  human  soul  appear  so  strong  as  when  it  fore- 
goes revenge,  and  dares  to  forgive  an  injury. 

—  E.  H.  Chapix. 


253  FORGIVENESS. 


By  experience  ;  by  a  sense  of  human  frailty ;  by  a  percep- 
tion of  "  the  soul  of  goodness  in  things  evil ;  "  by  a  cheerful 
trust  in  human  nature  ;  by  a  strong  sense  of  God's  love ;  by 
long  and  disciplined  realization  of  the  atoning  love  of  Christ ; 
only  thus  can  we  get  a  free,  manly,  large,  princely  spirit  of  for- 
giveness. 


—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


In  what  a  delightful  communion  with  God  does  that  man 
live  who  habitually  seeketh  love  !  With  the  same  mantle 
thrown  over  him  from  the  cross  —  with  the  same  act  of  am- 
nesty, by  which  we  hope  to  be  saved  —  injuries  the  most  pro- 
voked, and  transgressions  the  most  aggravated,  are  covered  in 

eternal  forgetfulness. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Behold  affronts  and  indignities  which  the  world  thinks  it 
right  never  to  pardon,  which  the  Son  of  God  endures  with  a 
Divine  meekness  !  Let  us  cast  at  the  feet  of  Jesus  that  false 
honor,  that  quick  sense  of  affronts,  which  exaggerates  every 
thing,  and  pardons  nothing,  and,  above  all,  that  devilish  deter- 
mination in  resenting  injuries. 

QUESNEL, 


A  more  glorious  victory  cannot  be  gained  over  another  man 
than  this,  that  when  the  injury  began  on  his  part,  the  kindness 
should  begin  on  ours. 

TiLLOTSON. 


For  still  in  mutual  sufferance  lies 

The  secret  of  true  living  ; 
Love  scarce  is  love  that  never  knows 

The  sweetness  of  forgiving. 

—  J.  G.  Whittier. 


FORTITUDE.  25a 


FORTITUDE. 

A  Christian  builds  his  fortitude  on  a  better  foundation  than 
stoicism;  he  is  pleased  with  every  thing  that  happens,  because 
he  knows  it  could  not  happen  unless  it  first  pleased  God,  and 
that  which  pleases  Him  must  be  best. 


C.  C.   COLTON. 


Every  man  must  bear  his  own  burden,  and  it  is  a  fine  thing 
to  see  any  one  trying  to  do  it  manfully  ;  carrying  his  cross 
bravely,  silently,  patiently,  and  in  a  way  which  makes  you  hope 
that  he  has  taken  for  his  pattern  the  greatest  of  all  sufferers. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Providence  has  clearly  ordained  that  the  only  path  fit  and 
salutary  for  man  on  earth  is  the  path  of  persevering  fortitude 
—  the  unremitting  struggle  of  deliberate  self -preparation  and 
humble  but  active  reliance  on  Divine  aid. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Be  not  cast  down.  If  ye  saw  Him  who  is  standing  on  the 
shore,  holding  out  His  arms  to  welcome  you  to  land,  ye  would 
wade,  not  only  through  a  sea  of  wrongs,  but  through  hell  itself 
to  be  with  Him. 

—  Rutherford. 


Bear  your  burden  manfully.  Boys  at  school,  young  men 
who  have  exchanged  boyish  liberty  for  serious  business, —  all 
who  have  got  a  task  to  do,  a  work  to  finish  —  bear  the  burden 
till  God  gives  the  signal  for  repose  —  till  the  work  is  done,  and 
the  holiday  is  fairly  earned. 

—  James  Hamilton. 

Gird  your  hearts  with  silent  fortitude. 
Suffering,  yet  hoping  all  things. 

—  Mrs.  Hemans. 


254  FRETTING  — FRIENDSHIP. 


FRETTING. 

Most  men  call  fretting  a  minor  fault,  a  foible,  and  not  a  vice. 
There  is  no  vice  except  drunkenness  which  can  so  utterly  de- 
stroy the  peace,  the  happiness  of  a  home. 

—  Mrs.  H.  F.  Jackson. 

However  nervous,  depressed,  and  despairing  maybe  the  tone 
of  any  one,  the  Lord  leaves  him  no  excuse  for  fretting;  for 
there  is  enough  in  God's  promise  to  overbalance  all  these  nat- 
ural difficulties.  In  the  measure  in  which  the  Christian  enjoys 
his  privileges,  rises  above  the  things  that  are  seen,  hides  himself 
in  the  refuge  provided  for  him,  will  he  be  able  to  voice  the 
confession  of  Paul,  and  say,  "  None  of  these  things  move  me." 

—  S.  H.  Tyng,  Jr. 


FRIENDSHIP. 

The  friendship  of  high  and  sanctified  spirits  loses  nothing  by 
death  but  its  alloy  ;  failings  disappear,  and  the  virtues  of  those 
whose  faces  we  shall  behold  no  more  appear  greater  and  more 
sacred  when  beheld  through  the  shades  of  the  sepulchre. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


A  good  man  is  the  best  friend,  and  therefore  soonest  to  be 
chosen,  longest  to  be  retained,  and  indeed  never  to  be  parted 
with,  unless  he  cease  to  be  that  for  which  he  was  chosen. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


I  consider  beyond  all  wealth,  honor,  or  even  health,  is  the 
attachment  due  to  noble  souls  ;  because  to  become  one  with 
the  good,  generous,  and  true,  is  to  be,  in  a  manner,  good,  gener- 
ous, and  true  yourself. 

—  Dr.  Arnold. 


FRIVOLITY  — GENTLENESS.  255 

Friendship  is  a  cadence  of  divine  melody   melting  through 
the  heart. 

—  MiLDWAY. 


Character  is  so  largely  affected  by  associations  that  we  can- 
not afford  to  be  indifferent  as  to  who  and  what  our  friends  are. 
They  write  their  names  in  our  albums,  but  they  do  more,  they 
help  make  us  what  we  are.  Be  therefore  careful  in  selecting 
them;  and  when  wisely  selected,  never  sacrifice  them. 

M.   HULBURD. 


FRIVOLITY. 


Frivolity,  under  whatever  form  it  appears,  takes  from  atten- 
tion  its  strength,  from  thought  its  originality,  from  feeling  its 

earnestness. 

—  Madame  de  STAiiL. 


Alas  !  that  Christians  should  stand  at  the  door  of  eternity 
having  more  work  upon  their  hands  than  their  time  is  sufficient 
for,  and  yet  be  filling  their  heads  and  hearts  with  trifles. 

—  John  Flavel. 


GENTLENESS. 


And  if  you  ask  what  is  the  temper  which  is  most  fitted  to  be 
victorious  over  sin  on  earth,  I  answer  that  in  it  the  warp  of  a 
sunny  gentleness  must  be  woven  across  the  woof  of  a  strong 
character.  That  will  make  the  best  tissue  to  stand  the  wear 
and  tear  of  the  world's  trials.  Our  Lord  was  divinely  gentle, 
but  He  was  also  strong  with  a  wondrous  strength  and  firmness. 

—  W.  H.  Lyttleton. 


256  GLORY  — GOD. 


Seek  to  mingle  gentleness  in  all  your  rebukes ;  bear  with  the 
infirmities  of  others  ;  make  allowance  for  constitutional  frail- 
ties ;  never  say  harsh  things,  if  kind  things  will  do  as  well. 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


GLORY. 

True  glory  consists  in  doing  what  deserves  to  be  written,  in 
writing  what  deserves  to  be  read,  and  in  so  living  as  to  make 
the  world  happier  and  better  for  our  living  in  it. 

—  Pliny. 


True  glory  is  a  flame  lighted  at  the  skies. 

—  Horace  Mann. 


Real  glory 
Springs  from  the  silent  conquest  of  ourselves. 

—  James  Thomson. 


GOD. 

What  is  God  ?  The  telescope  by  which  we  hold  converse 
with  the  stars,  the  microscope  which  unveils  the  secrets  of  na- 
ture, the  crucible  of  the  chemist,  the  knife  of  the  anatomist, 
the  reflective  faculties  of  the  philosopher,  all  the  common  in- 
struments of  science,  avail  not  here.  On  the  threshold  of  that 
impenetrable  mystery,  a  voice  arrests  our  steps.  From  out  the 
clouds  and  darkness  that  are  round  about  God's  throne,  the 
question  comes,  "  Canst  thou  by  searching  find  out  God  ?  canst 
thou  find  out  the  Almighty  to  perfection }  " 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


God  is  a  Spirit,  infinite,  eternal,  and  unchangeable,  in  His 
being,  wisdom,  power,  holiness,  justice,  goodness,  and  truth. 
4  .  — Westminster  Catechism. 


GOD.  257 

Ah,  my  friends,  we  must  look  out  and  around  to  see  what 

God  is  like.     It  is  when  we  persist  in  turning  our  eyes  inward, 

and  prying  curiously  over  our  own  imperfections,  that  we  learn 

to  make   God  after  our  own  image,  and  fancy  that  our  own 

darkness  and  hardness  of  heart   are  the  patterns  of  His  light 

and  love. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


God  said,   "Let  us  make  man  in  our  image."     Man  said, 

"  Let  us  make  God  in  our  image." 

—  Douglas  Jerrold. 

God  Himself — His  thoughts,  His  will.  His  love,  His  judg- 
ments are  men's  home.  To  think  His  thoughts,  to  choose  His 
will,  to  judge  His  judgments,  and  thus  to  know  that  He  is  in 
us,  with  us,  is  to  be  at  home.  And  to  pass  through  the  valley 
of  the  shadow  of  death  is  the  way  home,  but  only  thus,  that  as 
all  changes  have  hitherto  led  us  nearer  to  this  home,  the  knowl- 
edge of  God,  so  this  greatest  of  all  outward  changes  —  for  it 
is  but  an  outward  change  —  will  surely  usher  us  into  a  region 
where  there  will  be  fresh  possibilities  of  drawing  nigh  in  heart, 
soul,  and  mind  to  the  Father  of  us  all. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


God  should  be  the  object  of  all  our  desires,  the  end  of  all 
our  actions,  the  principle  of  all  our  affections,  and  the  govern- 
ing power  of  our  whole  souls. 


—  Massillon. 


God  is  the  only  sure  foundation  on  which  the  mind  can  rest. 

—  S.  IrentEus  Prime. 


From  Thee,  great  God  !  we  spring,  to  Thee  we  tend, 
Path,  motive,  guide,  original,  and  end. 

. —  Samuel^  Johnson. 
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258  GOD:    CREATOR. 


Brethren,  the  Deity  was  not  revealed  to  gratify  our  curiosity, 
or  to  increase  our  pride  of  intellect,  but  to  bring  us  into  rela- 
tions of  affection,  submission,  and  communion  with  Him. 

—  E.  N.  Kirk. 


Running  like  a  Gulf-stream  through  the  sea  of  time,  comes 
the  affirmation  that  God  has  manifested  Himself  to  man,  and 
the  best  men  have  affirmed  it  most  persistently.  Wherever 
this  affirmation  has  made  its  way,  the  icebergs  of  skepticism 
have  disappeared,  the  temperature  of  virtue  has  risen,  and  the 
sweet  fruits  of  charity  have  ripened.  If  the  belief  be  false, 
then  a  lie  has  blessed  the  world,  and  the  soul  is  so  organized 
that  it  reaches  its  highest  state  of  development  in  an  atmos- 
phere of  deception ;  for  it  is  a  fact  that  man  is  purest  and 
woman  most  virtuous  where  belief  in  God's  manifestations  is 
most  intense  and  real. 

O.   P.   GiFFORD. 


All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole, 
Whose  body  nature  is,  and  God  the  soul. 

—  Pope. 


As  a  man  exhibits  himself  in  physical  forms  and  actions,  so 
there  is  one  other  Spirit,  a  great,  wide,  mighty,  infinite,  eternal 
Spirit  back  there  in  the  depths  of  space,  and  in  the  present, 
and  in  the  future,  and  in  the  abysses  of  space,  who  at  His  will 
wrestles  into  existence  great  globes,  and  keeps  them  in  their 
position.  He  builds  them,  and  places  on  them  these  mysterious 
forms  of  earth  which  are  signals  hung  out  over  these  abysses  to 
tell  coming  spirits  who  He  is,  what  He  is,  what  He  does,  how 
high  is  His  throne,  and  how  vast  is  His  power  from  eternity  to 
eternity,  from  infinity  to  infinity  through  all  ages  of  all  time  ; 
He  is  holding  forth  to  men  and  angels  these  external  tokens  of 
His  almighty  power,  of  His  infinite  skill,  and  of  His  everlast- 
ing love.  — Bishop  R.  F.  Foster. 


GOD'S  ETERNITY.  259 

iVs  Phidias  contrived  his  mechanism  so  that  his  memory 
could  never  be  obliterated  without  the  destruction  of  his  work, 
so  the  great  name  of  God  is  interwoven  in  the  texture  of  all  that 
He  has  made.  His  goodness  blooms  in  every  flower;  His  glory 
beams  in  every  star.  There  is  a  God  !  The  sun  speaks  it  in 
his  splendor  by  day,  and  the  moon  in  her  radiance  by  night. 
There  is  a  God  !  Inanimate  nature,  from  the  pebble  upon  the 
beach,  to  the  orb  that  shines  in  the  vaulted  sky,  declares  it;  and 
animate  existence,  from  the  tiniest  insect,  to  Gabriel  before  the 
throne.  The  earth  is  full  of  Him.  His  majesty  commands  the 
cherubim ;  His  temple  is  all  space ;  His  arm  is  around  all 
worlds, 

—  Joseph  Dare. 


The  mystery  of  the  universe,  and  the  meaning  of  God's 
world,  are  shrouded  in  hopeless  obscurity,  until  we  learn  to 
feel  that  all  laws  suppose  a  lawgiver,  and  that  all  working  in- 
volves a  Divine  energy. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


If  we  can  keep  our  minds  calm  on  the  subject  of  the  "  Eter- 
nity of  God,"  if  reason  does  not  totter  on  her  seat  at  the  con- 
templation of  underived  existence,  it  will  be  strange  if  any 
other  mystery  relating  to  God  should  disturb  us.  He  who  can 
bring  his  reason  to  bow  reverently  at  the  idea  of  a  Being  who 
had  no  beginning,  is  well  prepared  to  receive  any  communica- 
tion of  His  will. 

—  Nehemiah  Adams. 


O  God,  our  help  in  ages  past. 

Our  hope  for  years  to  come, 
Be  Thou  our  guard  while  troubles  last, 

And  our  eternal  home  ! 

—  Watts. 


260  GOD'S  FATHERHOOD  — FAITHFULNESS. 

Fatherhood  '  what  does  that  word  itself  teach  us  ?  It  speaks 
of  the  communication  of  a  Hfe,  and  the  reciprocity  of  love  It 
rests  upon  a  Divine  act,  and  it  involves  a  human  emotion.  It 
involves  that  the  Father  and  the  child  shall  have  kindred  life  — 
the  Father  bestowing,  and  the  child  possessing  a  life  which  is 
derived  ;  and  because  derived,  kindred  ;  and  because  kindred, 
unfolding  itself  in  likeness  to  the  Father  that  gave  it.  And  it 
requires  that  between  the  Father's  heart  and  the  child's  heart 
there  shall  pass,  in  blessed  interchange  and  quick  correspond- 
ence, answering  love,  flashing  backwards  and  forwards,  like  the 
lightning  that  touches  the  earth,  and  rises  from  it  again. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


God  of  my  fathers  !  holy,  just,  and  good ! 
My  God,  my  Father  !  my  unfailing  hope  ! 

—  Pollock. 


There  is  all  the  difference  in  the  world  between  searching  for 
evidences  of  my  sonship,  and  seeking  to  get  the  conviction  of 
God's  fatherhood.  The  one  is  an  endless,  profitless,  soul-tor- 
menting task  ;  the  other  is  the  light  and  liberty,  the  glorious 
liberty  of  the  children  of  God. 


What   another   being  is   life  when  we  have  found  out  our 

Father  ;  and  if  we  work,  it  is  beneath  His  eye,  and  if  we  play, 

it  is  in    the  light  and  encouragement  of  His  smile.       Earth's 

sunshine  is  heaven's  radiance,  and  the  stars  of  night  as  if  the 

beginning  of  the  beatific  vision ;  so  soft,  so  sweet,  so  gentle,  so 

reposeful,  so  almost  infinite  have  all  things  become,  because  we 

have  found  our  Father  in  our  God. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


When  we  come  to  tell  the  completed  story  of  our  lives,  we  shall 
have  to  record  the  fulfillment  of  all  God's  promises,  and  the 
accomplishment  of  all  our  prayers  that  were  built  on  them. 


GOD'S  FAITHFULNESS  — GOODNESS.  261 

God's  truth  and  faithfulness  "  are  a  great  deep."  They  re- 
semble the  ocean  itself;  always  there — vast,  fathomless,  sub- 
lime, the  same  in  its  majesty,  its  inexhaustible  fullness,  yester- 
day, to-day,  and  forever  ;  the  same  in  calm  and  storm,  by  day 
and  by  night ;  changeless  while  generations  come  and  pass ; 
everlasting  while  ages  are  rolling  away. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


If  you  were  to  spend  a  month  feeding  on  the  precious  prom- 
ises of  God,  you  would  not  be  going  about  with  your  heads 
hanging  down  like  bulrushes,  complaining  how  poor  you  are ; 
but  you  would  lift  up  your  heads  with  confidence,  and  proclaim 
the  riches  of  His  grace  because  you  could  not  help  it. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


I  believe  the  promises  of  God  enough  to  venture  an  eternity 
on  them.  — Watts. 


There  is  no  creature  so  small  and  abject,  that  it  representeth 
not  the  goodness  of  God. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


Not  a  step  can  we  take  in  any  direction  without  perceiving 
the  most  extraordinary  traces  of  design;  and  the  skill  everywhere 
conspicuous  is  calculated  in  so  vast  a  proportion  of  instances  to 
promote  the  happiness  of  living  creatures,  and  especially  of 
ourselves,  that  we  feel  no  hesitation  in  concluding  that,  if  we 
knew  the  whole  scheme  of  Providence,  every  part  would  appear 
to  be  in  harmony  with  a  plan  of  absolute  benevolence. 

—  Lord  Broughai^l 


There  is  nothing  that  God  has  judged  good  for  us  that  He  has 
not  given  us  the  means  to  accomplish,  both  in  the  natural 
and  the  moral  world. 

—  Edmund  Burke. 


362  GOD'S  GOODNESS. 

Whatever  may  be  the  mysteries  of  life  and  death,  there  is  one 
mystery  which  the  cross  of  Christ  reveals  to  us,  and  that  is  the 
infinite  and  absolute  goodness  of  God.  Let  all  the  rest  remain 
a  mystery  so  long  as  the  mystery  of  the  cross  of  Christ  gives  us 
faith  for  all  the  rest. 

—  Charles  Kingslev. 


Let  me,  O  my  God,  stifle  forever  in  my  heart  every  thought 
that  would  tempt  me  to  doubt  Thy  goodness.  I  know  that 
Thou  canst  not  but  be  good.  O  merciful  Father,  let  me  no 
longer  reason  about  grace,  but  silently  abandon  myself  to  its 
operation. 

—  Fenelon. 


His  goodness  stands  approved, 

Unchanged  from  day  to  day  ; 
I'll  drop  my  burden  at  His  feet. 

And  bear  a  song  away. 

—  Philip  Doddridge. 


God's  treasury  where  He  keeps  His  children's  gifts  will  be 
like  many  a  mother's  store  of  relics  of  her  children,  full  of 
things  of  no  value  to  others,  but  precious  in  His  eyes  for  the 
love's  sake  that  was  in  them. 

—  Fenelon. 


God's  highest  gifts  —  talent,  beauty,  feeling,  imagination, 
power  —  they  carry  with  them  the  possibility  of  the  highest 
heaven  and  the  lowest  hell.  Be  sure  that  it  is  by  that  which  is 
highest  in  you  that  you  may  be  lost. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


When  He  bears  us  along  in  His  tender  and  paternal  bosom, 
then  it  is  that  we  forget  Him  ;  in  the  sweetness  of  His  gifts  we 
forget  the  Giver  ;  His  ceaseless  blessings,  instead  of  melting  us 
into  love,  distract  our  attention,  and  turn  it  away  from  Him. 


GODS  GUIDANCE.  263 

The  sun  by  the  action  of  heat  makes  wax  moist  and  mud 
dry,  hardening  the  one  while  it  softens  the  other,  by  the  same 
operation  producing  exactly  opposite  results;  thus,  from  the 
long-suffering  of  God,  some  derive  benefit,  and  others  harm ; 
some  are  softened,  while  others  are  hardened. 

—  Theodoret. 


Guide  me,  O  Thou  great  Jehovah, 

Pilgrim  through  this  barren  land  ; 
I  am  weak,  but  Thou  art  mighty  ; 
Hold  me  with  Thy  powerful  hand  ; 
Bread  of  heaven  ! 
Feed  me  till  I  want  no  more. 

—  W.  Williams. 


"  I  will  guide  thee  with  mine  eye  " — a  glance,  not  a  blow  — 
a  look  of  directing  love  that  at  once  heartens  to  duty,  and  tells 
duty.  We  must  be  very  near  Him  to  catch  that  look,  and  very- 
much  in  sympathy  with  Him  to  understand  it ;  but  when  we 
do,  we  must  be  swift  to  obey. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Whosoever  is  really  earnest  for  Divine  direction,  more 
anxious  to  know  what  the  Lord  would  have  him  do  than  to 
know  what  is  for  his  own  present  ease  or  worldly  interest,  and 
who  confides  the  case  to  Him  who  giveth  wisdom  liberally,  and 
upbraideth  not,  may  count  on  it  very  confidently  that  the  Lord 
will  send  forth  His  light. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


If  thou  art  fighting  against  thy  sins,  so  is  God.  On  thy  side  is 
God  who  made  all,  and  Christ  who  died  for  all  and  the  Holy- 
Spirit  who  alone  gives  wisdom,  purity,  and  nobleness. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


264  GODS  GUIDANCE. 

As  long  as  we  work  on  God's  line,  He  will  aid  us.    When  we 
attempt  to  work  on  our  own  lines,  He  rebukes  us  with  failure. 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


As  a  general  rule,  those  truths  which  we  highly  relish,  and 
which  shed  a  degree  of  practical  light  upon  the  things  which  we 
are  required  to  give  up  for  God,  are  leadings  of  Divine  grace, 
which  we  should  follow  without  hesitation. 

—  Fenelon. 


There  is  nothing  so  small  but  that  we  may  honor  God  by 
asking  His  guidance  of  it,  or  insult  Him  by  taking  it  into  our 
own  hands. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Joy  is  like  restless  day;  but  peace  divine 

Like  quiet  night. 
Lead  me,  O  Lord,  till  perfect  day  shall  shine 

Through  peace  to  light  ! 


The  Christian  will  sometimes  be  brought  to  walk  in  a  solitary 
path.  God  seems  to  cut  away  his  props,  that  He  may  reduce 
him  to  Himself.  His  religion  is  to  be  felt  as  a  personal,  par- 
ticular, appropriate  possession.  He  is  to  feel,  that,  as  there  is 
but  one  Jehovah  to  bless,  so  there  seems  to  him  as  though  there 
were  but  one  penitent  in  the  universe  to  be  blessed  by  Him. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


"My  Father,  it  is  dark!"   "Child,  take  my  hand. 
Cling  close  to  me  ;   I'll  lead  thee  through  the  land. 
Trust  my  all-seeing  care,  so  shalt  thou  stand 
'Midst  glory  bright  above." 


Can  we  be  unsafe  where   God  has  placed  us,  and  where  He 
watches  over  us  as  a  parent  a  child  that  he  loves  ? 

—  Fenelon. 


GODS  GUIDANCE.  265 

When  ye  are  come  to  the  other  side  of  the  water,  and  have  set 
down  your  foot  on  the  shore  of  glorious  eternity,  and  look  back 
again  to  the  waters  and  to  your  wearisome  journey,  and  shall 
see  in  that  clear  glass  of  endless  glory,  nearer  to  the  bottom  of 
God's  wisdom,  ye  shall  then  be  forced  to  say,  "  If  God  had 
done  otherwise  with  me  than  He  hath  done,  I  had  never  come 
to  the  enjoyment  of  this  crown  of  glory." 

—  Rutherford. 


Lead,  kindly  Light  !    amid  the  encircling  gloom. 

Lead  Thou  me  on  ; 
The  night  is  dark,  and  I  am  far  from  home, 

Lead  Thou  me  on  ; 
Keep  Thou  my  feet ;  I  do  not  ask  to  see 
The  distant  scene  ;  one  step  enough  for  me. 

—  John  H.  Newman. 


Do  you  feel  that  you  have  lost  your  way  in  life  ?  Then  God 
Himself  will  show  you  your  way.  Are  you  utterly  helpless, 
worn  out,  body  and  soul  ?  Then  God's  eternal  love  is  ready 
and  willing  to  help  you  up,  and  revive  you.  Are  you  wearied 
with  doubts  and  terrors  ?  Then  God's  eternal  light  is  ready  to 
show  you  your  way  ;  God's  eternal  peace  ready  to  give  you 
peace.  Do  you  feel  yourself  full  of  sins  and  faults.''  Then  take 
heart  ;  for  God's  unchangeable  will  is,  to  take  away  those  sins, 
and  purge  you  from  those  faults. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


O,  shall  I  ever  learn 

The  lesson  grand, 
That  I  should  never  spurn 

The  offered  hand 
Reached  out  to  guide  my  way 

Through  life's  dark  land  ? 

—  Mrs.  N.  a.  Holt. 


366  GOD'S  GUIDANCE— INFINITY. 

Day  and  night,  and  every  moment,  there  are  voices  about 
us.  All  the  hours  speak  as  they  pass ;  and  in  every  event 
there  is  a  message  to  us ;  and  all  our  circumstances  talk  with 
us  ;  but  it  is  in  Divine  language,  that  worldliness  misunder- 
stands, that  selfishness  is  frightened  at,  and  that  only  the  chil- 
dren of  God  hear  rightly  and  happily. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


My  faith  is,  that  there  is  a  greater  amount  of  revelation  given 
to  guide  each  man  by  the  principles  laid  down  in  the  Bible,  by 
conscience,  and  by  providence,  than  most  men  are  aware  of. 
It  is  not  the  light  which  is  defective,  it  is  an  eye  to  see  it. 

—  Norman  Macleod. 


Show  me  what  I  have  to  do. 
Every  hour  my  strength  renew  ; 
Let  me  live  a  life  of  faith, 
Let  me  die  Thy  people's  death. 


■  Newton. 


Guide  us,  Love,  Peace,  and  Grace  ! 
Guide  us  divinest  Light  ! 
Through  all  our  work  and  care  and  woe ; 
Through  all  the  dizzy  joys  we  know, 
Through  the  "  dark  valley  "  where  we  go, 
Guide  us  Love's  dearest  light, 
To-day,  to-night. 


Like  His  emblem  the  sun,  He  has  a  fullness  of  light  in  Him- 
self. Were  a  thousand  million  more  creatures  to  crowd  the 
earth,  that  sun  has  light  and  heat  for  them  all  ;  and  in  God 
there  is  a  fullness  of  good  infinitely  greater  than  the  whole 
creation  or  the  most  capacious  of  His  creatures  can  require. 
He  is  a  sun  and  shield;  He  will  give  grace  and  glory;  "no  good 
thing  will  He  withhold  from  them  that  walk  uprightly." 


GOD'S  INFINITY  — JUSTICE.  267 

How  can  man  understand  God,  since  he  does  not  yet  under- 
stand his  own  mind,  with  which  he  endeavors  to  understand 
Him  ? 


The  infinity  of  God  is  not  mysterious,  it  is  only  unfathom- 
able—  not  concealed,  but  incomprehensible.  It  is  a  clear  in- 
finity—  the  darkness  of  the  pure,  unsearchable  sea. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


The  human  mind  may  know  God,  and  learn  of  God,  though 
it  has  no  terms  by  which  to  explain  Him;  it  may  think  of  Him 
as  Absolute,  as  Infinite,  as  Personal,  while  it  may  never  in  this 
life  be  able  to  fathom  the  full  meaning  of  these  sublime  ideas. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


What  we  want  is  not  infinitude,  but  a  boundless  One  j  not 
to  feel  that  love  is  the  law  of  this  universe,  but  to  feel  One 
whose  name  is  Love. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  law  is  obligated  to  punish  the  transgressor  as  much  as 
the  transgressor  is  obligated  to  obey  the  law  —  law  has  no 
option.  Justice  has  but  one  function.  The  necessity  of  pen- 
alty is  as  great  as  the  necessity  of  obligation.  The  law  itself  is 
under  law  ;  that  is,  it  is  under  the  necessity  of  its  own  nature  ; 
and  therefore  the  only  possible  Avay  whereby  a  transgressor  can 
escape  the  penalty  of  the  law,  is  for  a  substitute  to  endure  it 
for  him.  The  deep  substrata  and  base  of  all  God's  ethical  at- 
tributes are  eternal  law  and  impartial  justice. 

—  Prof.  Shedd. 


God  is  kind ;  but  within  the  limits  of  inexorable  law.  He  is 
good  ;  but  you  can  take  no  liberties  with  Him  ;  for  back  of 
His  pity  and  kindness  is  the  righteousness  that  is  so  exact,  and 
that  must  be  satisfied  to  the  uttermost  farthing. 

—  J.  R.  Paxton. 


268  GODS  JUSTICE  — KINGDOM. 

Because  I  believe  in  a  God  of  absolute  and  unbounded  love, 

therefore  I  believe  in   a  loving  anger  of  His  which  will   and 

must  devour    and   destroy   all    which  is  decayed,   monstrous, 

abortive  in   His   universe   till   all   enemies  shall  be  put  under 

His  feet,  and  God  shall  be  all  in  all. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


God's  justice  and  love  are  one.     Infinite  justice  must  be  in- 
finite love.     Justice  is  but  another  sign  of  love. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Justice  is  but  the  perseverance  of  God's  wisdom,  the  deter- 
mination of  His  power,  and  the  victory  of  His  love. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Though,  in   debating  with  regard  to  theories,  it  be  lawful  to 

say  whether  this  or  that  is  consistent  with  the  Divine  attributes, 

yet,   when  we  find  that  God  has  actually  done  any  thing,  all 

question  about  its  justice,  wisdom,  and  benevolence,  is  forever 

out  of  place. 

—  Nehemiah  Adams. 


How  far  from  here  to  heaven  ? 

Not  very  far,  my  friend  ; 
A  single  hearty  step 

Will  all  thy  journey  end. 
Hold  there  !  where  runnest  thou  ? 

Know  heaven  is  in  thee  ! 

Seekest  thou  for  God  elsewhere  ? 

His  face  thou'lt  never  see. 

—  Angelus  Silesius. 


I  sought  Thee  at  a  distance,  and  did  not  know  that  Thou 
wast  near.  I  sought  Thee  abroad,  and  behold  Thou  wast 
within  me, 

—  St.  Augustine. 


GOD'S  KINGDOM  — LOVE.  269 

The  kingdom  of  God  which  is  within  us  consists  in  our  will- 
ing whatever  God  wills,  always,  in  every  thing,  and  without 
reservation  ;  and  thus  His  kingdom  comes  ;  for  His  will  is 
then  done  as  it  is  in  heaven,  since  we  will  nothing  but  what  is 
dictated  by  His  sovereign  pleasure. 

—  Fenelon. 


Were  it  not  well,  then,  to  begin  with  the  substance,  to  learn 
to  apprehend  the  reality  of  that  kingdom  which  is  all  around 
us  now,  whether  we  recognize  it  or  not,  —  to  take  our  aims  and 
endeavors  into  it,  that  they  may  be  made  part  of  it,  however 
small, — to  surrender  ourselves  to  it,  that  our  lives  may  do 
something  towards  its  advancement,  and  that  we  may  become 
fellow-workers,  however  humble,  with  all  the  wise  and  good 
who  have  gone  before  us,  and  with  Him  who  made  them  what 
they  are .'' 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


If  you  want  to  work  for  the  kingdom  of  God,  and  to  bring 
it,  and  enter  into  it,  there  is  just  one  condition  to  be  first  ac- 
cepted.    You  must  enter  into  it  as  children,  or  not  at  all. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


The  only  way  to  hasten  the  kingdom  is  to  hasten  growth  ; 
to  hasten  work,  and  that,  too,  along  the  very  lines  in  which  the 
*•  resounding  loom  of  time  "  is  weaving  in  its  various-colored 
threads. 

—  John  Bascom. 

But  I  am  unable  to  reach  the  lofty  theme  ; — yet  I  do  not 
think  that  the  smallest  fish  that  swims  in  the  boundless  ocean 
ever  complains  of  the  immeasurable  vastness  of  the  deep.  So 
it  is  with  me ,  I  can  plunge  with  my  puny  capacity,  into  a  sub- 
ject, the  immensity  of  which  I  shall  never  be  able  fully  to  com- 
prehend. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


270  GOD'S  LOVE. 


We  never  know  through  what  Divine  mysteries  oi  compensa- 
tion the  great  Father  of  the  universe  may  be  carrying  out  His 
subUme  plan;  but  those  three  words,  "God  is  love"  ought  to 
contain,  to  every  doubting  soul,  the  solution  of  all  things. 

—  D.  M.  Craik. 


This  is  the  love  that  does  all  things  -,  that  brings  to  pass 
even  the  evils  we  suffer  ;  so  shaping  them  that  they  are  but  in- 
struments of  preparing  the  good  which,  as  yet,  has  not  arrived. 

—  Fenelon. 

It  is  no  small  comfort  that  God  hath  written  some  Scriptures 
to  you  which  He  hath  not  to  others.  Read  these,  and  think 
God  is  like  a  friend  who  sendeth  a  letter  to  a  whole  house  and 
family,  but  who  speaketh  in  His  letter  to  some  by  name  that  are 
dearest  to  Him  in  the  house. 

—  Rutherford. 


Brother  men,  one  act  of  charity  will  teach  us  more  of  the  love 
of  God  than  a  thousand  sermons  —  one  act  of  unselfishness,  of 
real  self-denial,  the  putting  forth  of  one  loving  feeling  to  the 
outcast  and  "  those  who  are  out  of  the  way,"  will  tell  us  more 
of  the  Epiphany  than  whole  volumes  of  the  wisest  writers  on 
theology. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


We  may  be  sure  that  it  is  the  love  of  God  only  that  can  make 
us  come  out  of  self.  If  His  powerful  hand  did  not  sustain  us, 
we  should  not  know  how  to  take  the  first  step  in  that  direction. 

—  Fenelon. 


Let  us  meditate  on  the  love  of  God,  who  being  supremely 
happy  Himself,  communicateth  perfect  happiness  to  us.  Su- 
preme happiness  doth  not  make  God  forget  us;  shall  the  miser- 
able comforts  of  this  life  make  us  forget  Him? 

—  James  Saurin. 


GODS  LOVE.  271 


God  is  love  and  goodness.  Fill  the  soul  with  goodness,  and 
fill  the  soul  with  love,  that  is  the  filling  it  with  God.  "  If  we 
lovetfjie  another,  God  dwelleth  in  us."  There  is  nothing  else 
that  can  satisfy. 

—  F.  W,  Robertson. 


Perchance —  He  knows  —  canst  thou  not  trust  His  love.'' 

—  Anna  C.  Brackett. 


Pause,  fellow-sinner,  fellow  man,  before  that  wonderful  Being 
that  you  find  now  in  the  manger,  now  on  the  cross  ;  follow  His 
wonderful  footsteps  ;  dwell  on. His  words;  hear  His  prayers  ; 
gaze  on  His  tears, —  nay,  on  His  flowing  blood,  until  you  fully 
and  firmly  believe,  never  to  doubt  it,  or  forget  that  God  loves 
us  when  we  do  not  love  Him. 

—  E.  N.  Kirk. 


Thou  lovest  like  an  infinite  God  when  Thou  lovest ;  Thou 
movest  heaven  and  earth  to  save  Thy  loved  ones.  Thou  be- 
comest  man,  a  babe,  the  vilest  of  men,  covered  with  reproaches, 
dying  with  infamy  and  under  the  pangs  of  the  cross;  all  this  is 
not  too  much  for  an  infinite  love. 

—  Fenelon. 


He  weeps  !  the  falling  drop  puts  out  the  sun  ; 
He  sighs  !  the  sigh  earth's  deep  foundation  shakes. 
If  in  His  love  so  terrible,  what  then 
His  wrath  inflamed.? 

—  Young. 


Nothing  reveals  character  more  than  self-sacrifice.      So  the 
highest  knowledge  we  have  of  God  is  through  the  gift  of  His  Son. 

—  William  Harris. 


We  love  Him,  because  He  first  loved  us. 


273  GOD'S  LOVE  -  MERCY. 

Such  was  God's  original  love  for  man,  that  He  v.as  willing  to 

stoop    to  any  sacrifice  to  save  him  ;  and  the  gift  of   a  Saviour 

was  the  mere  expression  of  that  love.  ^ 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


You  have  nothing  to  do  but  simply  to  receive  the  everlasting 
love  of  God  in  Christ  His  Son,  which  was  without  you,  which 
began  before  you,  which  flows  forth  independent  of  you,  which 
is  unchecked  by  all  our  sins,  which  triumphs  over  all  our  trans- 
gressions, and  which  will  make  us  —  loveless,  selfish,  hardened, 
sinful  men  —  soft  and  tender  and  full  of  Divine  perfection,  by 
the  communication  of  its  own  self. 


Chance  and  change  are  busy  ever  ; 

Man  decays,  and  ages  move  ; 
But  His  mercy  waneth  never  ; 

God  is  wisdom,  God  is  love. 

BOWRING. 


As  the  Creator  and  Preserver  of  men,  Thou  art  gloriously 
manifest ;  but  O  !  how  much  more  gloriously  art  Thou  revealed 
as  reconciling  ungrateful  enemies  to  Thyself  by  the  blood  of 
Thy  eternal  Son.  Here  Thy  beneficence  displays  its  brightest 
splendor  ;  here  Thou  dost  fully  display  Thy  most  magnificent 
titles  ;  The  Lord,  the  Lord  God,  merciful  and  gracious,  long- 
suffering  and  abundant  in  goodness.  How  unsearchable  are 
Thy  ways,  and  Thy  paths  past  finding  out ! 

—  Elizabeth  Rowe. 


If  I  were  to  live  to  the  world's  end,  and  do  all  the  good  that 

man  can  do,  I  must  still  cry,  "  Mercy  !"    Why  then  should  I  be 

unwilling  or  afraid  to  die  this  moment,  with  a  sense  of  God's 

pardoning  love,  when  I  can   have  no  other  claim  to  salvation  if 

I  were  to  live  forever  ? 

—  Thomas  Adams. 


GOD'S  MERCY  — OMNIPOTENCE.  273 

Depth  of  mercy  !  —  can  there  be 
Mercy  still  reserved  for  me  ? 
Can  my  God  His  wrath  forbear  ? 
Me,  the  chief  of  sinners,  spare  ? 

—  Charles  Wesley. 


God's  mercy  is  a  holy  mercy,  which  knows  how  to  pardon 
sin,  not  to  protect  it  ;  it  is  a  sanctuary  for  the  penitent,  not  for 
the  presumptuous. 

—  Bishop  Reynolds. 


And  now  we  beseech  of  Thee  that  we  may  have  every  day 
some  such  sense  of  God's  mercy  and  of  the  power  of  God  about 
us,  as  we  have  of  the  fullness  of  the  light  of  heaven  before  us. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


The  cry  of  distress  lays  hold  of  our  Lord's  omnipotence. 

It  is  as  easy  for  God  to  supply  thy  greatest  as  thy  smallest 
wants,  even  as  it  was  within  His  power  to  form  a  system  or  an 
atom,  to  create  a  blazing  sun  as  to  kindle  the  fire-fly's  lamp. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


It  is  impossible  for  the  mind  which  is  not  totally  destitute  of 
piety,  to  behold  the  sublime,  the  awful,  the  amazing  works  of 
creation  and  providence  —  the  heavens  with  their  luminaries, 
the  mountains,  the  ocean,  the  storm,  the  earthquake,  the  vol- 
cano, the  circuit  of  the  seasons,  and  the  revolutions  of  empires 
—  without  marking  in  them  all  the  mighty  hand  of  God,  and 
feeling  strong  emotions  of  reverence  toward  the  Author  of  these 
stupendous  works. 

—  Timothy  D wight. 


The  Divine  work,  because  it  is  such  work,  is  rest  —  tranquil 
in  its  energy,  quiet  in  its  intensity  ;  because  so  mighty,  there- 
fore so  still. 


274  GOD'S  OMNIPOTENCE  — OMNIPRESENCE. 

The  same  Being  that  fashioned  the  insect,  whose  existence  is 
only  discerned  by  a  microscope,  and  gave  that  invisible  speck 
a  system  of  ducts  and  other  organs  to  perform  its  vitawfunc- 
tions,  created  the  enormous  mass  of  the  planet  thirteen  hun- 
dred times  larger  than  our  earth,  and  launched  it  in  its  course 
round  the  sun,  and  the  comet,  wheeling  with  a  velocity  that 
would  carry  it  round  our  globe  in  less  than  two  minutes  of  time, 
and  yet  revolving  through  so  prodigious  a  space  that  it  takes 

near  six  centuries  to  encircle  the  sun  ! 

—  Lord  Brougham. 


There  is  nothing  left  to  us  but  to  see  how  we  may  be  ap- 
proved of  Him,  and  how  we  may  roll  the  weight  of  our  weak 
souls  in  well-doing  upon  Him,  who  is  God  omnipotent. 

—  Rutherford. 


Oh,  when  His  wisdom  can  mistake, 
His  might  decay,  His  love  forsake, 
Then  may  His  children  cease  to  sing, — 
"  The  Lord  omnipotent  is  King  !  " 

CONDER. 

God  is  everywhere  present  by  His  power.    He  rolls  the  orbs 

of   heaven  with  His   hand  ;   He  fixes  the  earth  with  His  foot ; 

He  guides  all  creatures  with  His  eye,  and  refreshes  them  with 

His  influence  ;  He  makes  the  powers  of  hell  to  shake  with  His 

terrors,  and  binds  the  devils  with  His  word. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


There  are  regions  beyond  the  most  nebulous  outskirts  of 

matter  ;  but  no  regions  beyond  the  Divine  goodness.     We  may 

conceive  of  tracts  where  there  are  no  worlds,  but  not  of  any 

where  there  is  no  God  of  mercy. 

—  J.  W.  Alexander. 


GOD'S  OMNISCIENCE.  2?5 

He  knoweth  all ;  the  end 
Is  clear  as  the  beginning  to  His  eye  ; 
■*  Then  wait  in  peace,  secure  though  storms  roll  by, 
He  knoweth  all,  O  friend! 

—  Sunday-School  Times. 


What  must  be  the  knowledge  of  Him,  from  whom  all  created 
minds  have  derived  both  their  power  of  knowledge,  and  the 
innumerable  objects  of  their  knowledge  !  What  must  be  the 
wisdom  of  Him,  from  whom  all  things  derive  their  wisdom  ! 

—  Timothy  Dwight. 


However  dark  our  lot  may  be,  there  is  light  enough  on  the 
other  side  of  the  cloud,  in  that  pure  empyrean  where  God 
dwells,  to  irradiate  every  darkness  of  this  world;  light  enough 
to  clear  every  difficult  question,  remove  every  ground  of  obscu- 
rity, conquer  every  atheistic  suspicion,  silence  every  hard  judg- 
ment, light  enough  to  satisfy,  nay,  to  ravish  the  mind  forever. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


God  nothing  does  nor  suffers  to  be  done 

But  thou  wouldst  do  thyself  if  thou  couldst  see 

The  end  of  all  things  here  as  well  as  He. 


He  who  cannot  see  the  workings  of  a  Divine  wisdom  in  the 
order  of  the  heavens,  the  change  of  the  seasons,  the  flowing 
of  the  tides,  the  operations  of  the  wind  and  other  elements, 
the  structure  of  the  human  body,  the  circulation  of  the  blood 
through  a  variety  of  vessels  wonderfully  arranged  and  con- 
ducted, the  instinct  of  beasts,  their  tempers  and  dispositions, 
the  growth  of  plants,  and  their  many  effects  for  meat  and  medi- 
cine ;  he  who  cannot  see  all  these  and  many  other  things  as 
the  evident  contrivance  of  a  Divine  wisdom  is  sottishly  blind, 

and  unworthy  the  name  of  man. 

—  William  Jones  of  Nayland. 


276  GOD'S  OMNISCIENCE— PRESENCE. 

The  wisdom  of  the  Lord  is  infinite  as  are  also  His  glory  and 

His  power.     Ye  heavens,  sing  His  praises-,    sun,   moon,  and 

planets,  glorify  Him  in  your  ineffable  language  !     Praise  Him, 

celestial  harmonies,   and  all  ye  who  can  comprehend  them  ! 

And  thou,  my  soul,  praise  thy  Creator  !     It  is  by  Him  and  in 

Him  that  all  exist. 

—  Kepler. 


It  is  certain  that  this  is  not  only  good  which  the  Almighty 
has  done,  but  that  it  is  best  ;  He  hath  reckoned  all  your  steps 
to  heaven. 

—  Rutherford. 


Let  us  ask  ourselves  seriously  and  honestly,  "  What  do  I 
believe  after  all  .-*  What  manner  of  man  am  I  after  all  ?  What 
sort  of  show  would  I  make  after  all,  if  the  people  around  me 
knew  my  heart  and  all  my  secret  thoughts  ?  "  What  sort  of 
show  then  do  I  already  make  in  the  sight  of  Almighty  God, 
who  sees  every  man  exactly  as  he  is  ? 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Take  comfort,  and  recollect  however  little  you  and  I  may 
knoAv,  God  knows  ;  He  knows  Himself  and  you  and  me  and 
all  things ;  and  His  mercy  is  over  all  His  works. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


I  need  Thy  presence  every  passing  hour  ; 
What,  but  Thy  grace,  can  foil  the  tempter's  power  ? 
Who,  like  Thyself,  my  guide  and  stay  can  be  7 
Through  cloud  and  sunshine,  oh,  abide  with  me  ! 

—  H.  F.  Lyte. 


The  presence  of  God  calms  the  soul,  and  gives  it  quiet  and 
repose. 

—  Fenelon. 


GOD'S  PRESENCE.  377 

Life  should  be  a  constant  vision  of  God's  presence.  Here 
is  our  defense  against  being  led  away  by  the  gauds  and  shows 
of  earth's  vulgar  attractions. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  never-ceasing  boom  of  the   great  ocean  as  it  breaks  on 
the  beach,  drowns  all  smaller  sounds. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Do  we  vividly  feel  that  He  is  near  us  as  our  everlasting 
Friend,  to  guide,  cheer,  and  bless  our  aspirations  and  our 
efforts }  And  in  this  confidence  do  we  watch,  pray,  strive, 
press  forward,  and  seek  resolutely  for  ourselves  and  fellow-be- 
ings the  highest  end  of  existence,  even  the  perfection  of  our 
immortal  souls  ? 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


He  who  knows  what  it  is  to  enjoy  God  will  dread  His  loss  ; 
he  who  has  seen  His  face  will  fear  to  see  His  back. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


I  know  that  as  night  and  shadows  are  good  for  flowers,  and 
moonUght  and  dews  are  better  than  a  continual  sun,  so  is 
Christ's  absence  of  special  use,  and  that  it  hath  some  nourishing 
virtue  in  it,  and  giveth  sap  to  humility,  and  putteth  an  edge  on 
hunger,  and  furnisheth  a  fair  field  for  faith  to  put  forth  itself. 

—  Rutherford. 

The  vision  of  the  Divine  presence  ever  takes  the  form  which 
our  circumstances  most  require. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


As  the  soul  is  the  life  of  the  body,  so  God  is  the  life  of  the 
soul.  As  therefore  the  body  perishes  when  the  soul  leaves  it,  so 
the  soul  dies  when  God  departs  from  it. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


378  GOD'S  PRESENCE- PROVIDENCE. 

We  may  search  long  to  find  where  God  is,  but  we  shall  find 
Him  in  those  who  keep  the  words  of  Christ.  For  the  Lord 
Christ  saith,  "  If  any  man  love  me,  he  will  keep  my  words ;  and 
we  will  make  our  abode  with  him." 

—  Martin  Luther. 


A  consistent  Christian  may  not  have  rapture ;  he  has  that 
which  is  much  better  than  rapture  —  calmness  —  God's  serene 
and  perpetual  presence. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


I  believe  that  into  the  weakest,  saddest  heart  that  opens  to 
receive  this  Divine  Guest,  the  Father  and  the  Son  will  come 
and  abide  ;  and  the  exalted  joy  that  abiding  brings,  what  words 
can  express  !  The  Divine  dwelling  in  the  human,  the  Infinite 
in  the  finite,  how  marvelous  !  how  glorious !  This  must  be 
the  real  foretaste  of  heavenly  joy  —  the  truest  heaven  we  can 
know  on  earth. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Nothing  with  God  can  be  accidental. 

—  Longfellow. 


History  is  the  revelation  of  providence. 

—  Kossuth. 


The  Providence  that  watches  over  the  affairs  of  men  works 
out  of  their  mistakes,  at  times,  a  healthier  issue  than  could  have 
been  accomplished  by  their  wisest  forethought. 

—  J.  A.  Froude. 


There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends 
Rough-hew  them  how  we  will. 

—  Shakspeare. 


GODS  PROVIDENCE.  279 

God  tempers  the  wind  to  the  shorn  lamb. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 


And  behind  the  dim  unknown 

Standeth  God  within  the  shadow, 

Keeping  watch  above  His  own. 


The  moment  we   recognize  God  as   supreme  in  power  and 

infinitely  good  and  loving  toward  all  His  intelligent  creatures, 

that  moment  we  admit  the  doctrine  of  universal  and  special 

providence. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Whoever  studies  Divine  providence,  whether  it  be  in  rela- 
tion to  the  events  that  concern  us,  our  families,  the  cities  and 
nations  to  which  we  belong  ;  whoever  studies  the  rise  and  fall 
of  nations  and  empires,  whoever  looks  at  the  clashing  of  armies, 
will  perceive  that  these  are  only  parts  of  one  grand  movement. 
God  is  marching  on  to  the  accomplishment  of  an  appointed 
end  ;  namely,  the  subjugation  of  the  world  to  Himself. 

—  J.  M.  Reid. 


O  God  !  Thy  arm  was  here. 
And  not  to  us,  but  to  Thy  arm  alone, 
Ascribe  we  all. 

—  Shakspeare. 


God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way 

His  wonders  to  perform ; 
He  plants  His  footsteps  in  the  sea, 

And  rides  upon  the  storm. 

—  Cowper. 


I  believe  not  only  in  "  special  providences,"  but  in  the  whole 
universe  as  one  infinite  complexity  of  "  special  providences." 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


3S0  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE. 

My  bark  is  wafted  to  the  strand 

By  breath  Divine  ; 
And  on  the  hehii  there  rests  a  hand 

Other  than  mine. 

—  Dean  Alford. 


O,  lonely  tomb  in  Moab's  land, 

O,  dark  Bethpeor's  hill, 
Speak  to  these  curious  hearts  of  ours. 

And  teach  them  to  be  still ! 
God  hath  His  mysteries  of  grace  — 

Ways  that  we  cannot  tell  ; 
He  hides  them  deep,  like  the  secret  sleep, 

Of  him  He  loved  so  well. 

—  Mrs.  C.  F.  Alexander. 


Let  us  always  remember  that  God  has  never  promised  to 
supply  our  wishes,  but  only  our  wants,  and  these  only  as  they 
arise  from  day  to  day. 

—  Alexander  Dickson, 


The  sentences  in  the  book  of  providence  are  sometimes  long, 
and  you  must  read  a  great  way  before  you  understand  their 
meaning. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Sometimes  providences,  like  Hebrew  letters,  must  be  read 
backwards. 

—  John  Flavel. 


God  works  in  a  mysterious  way  in  grace  as  well  as  in  nature, 
concealing  His  operations  under  an  imperceptible  succession 
of  events,  and  thus  keeps  us  always  in  the  darkness  of  faith. 

—  Fenelon. 


GOD'S  PROVIDENCE.  281 

In  all  God's  providences,  it  is  good  to  compare  His  word  and 
His  works  together  ;  for  we  shall  find  a  beautiful  harmony  be- 
tween them,  and  that  they  mutually  illustrate  each  other. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Be  an  observer  of  providence  ;  for  God  is  sho\ving  you  ever, 
by  the  way  in  which  He  leads  you,  whither  He  means  to  lead. 
Study  your  trials,  your  talents,  the  world's  wants,  and  stand 
ready  to  serve  God  now,  in  whatever  He  brings  to  your  hand. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


We  are  never  less  alone  than  when  we  are  in  the  society  of  a 
single,  faithful  friend  ;  never  less  deserted  than  when  we  are 
carried  in  the  arms  of  the  All-Powerful. 

—  Fenelon. 


All  spiritual  strength  for  ourselves,  all  noble  ties  to  one  an- 
other, have  their  real  source  in  that  inner  sanctuary  where  God 
denies  His  lonely  audience  to  none.  Its  secrets  are  holy  ;  its 
asylum,  inviolate ;  its  consolations,  sure  ;  and  all  are  open  to 
the  simple  heart-word,  "Thou  art  my  hiding-place." 

—  James  Martineau. 


It  was  a  touching  answer  of  a  Christian  sailor,  when  asked 

why   he  remained  so  calm  in  a  fearful   storm,  when  the  sea 

seemed  ready  to  devour  the  ship.      He  was  not   sure  that  he 

could  swim.     "  But,"  he  said,  "  though  I  sink  I  shall  only  drop 

into  the  hollow  of  my  Father's  hand  ;  for  He  holds  all  these 

waters  there." 

—  William  Arnot. 


There  is  many  a  thing  which  the  world  calls  disappointment ; 

but  there  is  no  such  thing  in  the  dictionary  of  faith.     What  to 

others  are  disappointments  are  to  believers  intimations  of  the 

will  of  God. 

—  John  Newton. 


283  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE. 

God's  ways  seem  dark,  but,  soon  or  late, 
They  touch  the  shming  hills  of  day  ; 

The  evil  cannot  brook  delay, 

The  good  can  well  afford  to  wait. 

—  John  G.  Whittier. 

Not  a  sorrow,  not  a  burden,  not  a  temptation,  not  a  bereave- 
ment, not  a  disappointment,  not  a  care,  not  a  groan  or  tear,  but 
has  its  antidote  in  God's  rich  and  inexhaustible  resources. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


As  yonder  tower  outstretches  to  the  earth 
The  dark  triangle  of  its  shade  alone 
When  the  clear  day  is  shining  on  its  top  ; 
So,  darkness  in  the  pathway  of  man's  life 
Is  but  the  shadow  of  God's  providence, 
By  the  great  Sun  of  wisdom  cast  thereon  ; 
And  what  is  dark  below  is  light  in  heaven. 

—  J.  G.  Whittier. 


He  sendeth  sun,  He  sendeth  shower, — 
Alike  they're  needful  to  the  flower  ; 
And  joys  and  tears  alike  are  sent 
To  give  the  soul  fit  nourishment. 
As  comes  to  me  or  cloud  or  sun. 
Father  !  Thy  will,  not  mine,  be  done. 

—  S.  F.  Adams. 


God's  plans,  like  lilies  pure  and  white,  unfold ; 
We  must  not  tear  the  close-shut  leaves  apart  — 

Time  will  reveal  the  calyxes  of  gold. 
And,  if  through  patient  toil  we  reach  the  land 

Where  tired  feet  with  sandals  loose  may  rest, 
When  we  shall  clearly  know,  and  understand, 

I  think  that  we  shall  say  :  "God  knows  the  best." 


GOD'S   SOVEREIGNTY.  283 

God  never  makes  us  sensible  of  our  weakness  except  to  give 
us  of  His  strength. 

—  Fenelon. 


Even  when  the  shadows  of  trial  are  falling  around  us,  let  us 
"  pass  through  the  cloud  "  with  the  sustaining  motive  —  "  All 
my  wish,  O  God,  is  to  please  and  glorify  Thee !  " 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


God  governs  in  the  affairs  of  men  ;  and  if  a  sparrow  cannot 
fall  to  the  ground  without  His  notice,  neither  can  a  kingdom 
rise  without  His  aid. 

■^-Benjamin  Franklin. 


Thou  art !  directing,  guiding  all,  Thou  art ! 
Direct  my  understanding  then  to  Thee  ; 
Control  my  spirit,  guide  my  wandering  heart : 
Though  but  an  atom  midst  immensity. 

—  Derzhavin. 


Can  we  outrun  the  heavens  ? 

—  Shakspeare. 


God's  will  is  the  very  perfection  of  all  reason. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


Converting  grace  puts  God  on  the  throne,  and  the  world  at 
His  footstool ;  Christ  in  the  heart,  and  the  world  under  His 
feet, 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


However  wickedness  outstrips  men,  it  has  no  wings  to  fly 
from  God. 

—  Shakspeare. 


384  GOD'S  SOVEREIGNTY. 

Was  it  possible  that  Napoleon  should  win  the  battle  of  Wa- 
terloo ?  We  answer,  No  !  Why  ?  Because  of  Wellington  ?  Be- 
cause of  Blucher?  No!  Because  of  God!  For  Bonaparte  to 
conquer  at  Waterloo  was  not  the  law  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
It  was  time  that  this  vast  man  should  fall.  He  had  been  im- 
peached before  the  Infinite !  He  had  vexed  God  !  Waterloo 
was  not  a  battle.      It  was  the  change  of  front  of  the  Universe  ! 

—  Victor  Hugo. 


It  is  a  great  truth,  "  God  reigns,"  and  therefore  grace  reigns 
through  righteousness  unto  eternal  life,  by  Jesus  Christ  our 
Lord ;    and,  therefore,  no  sinner  on  earth  need  ever  despair. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


The  moral  government  of  God  is  a  movement  in  a  line  on- 
wards towards  some  grand  consummation,  in  which  the  princi- 
ples, indeed,  are  ever  the  same,  but  the  developments  are  always 
new, —  in  which,  therefore,  no  experience  of  the  past  can  indi- 
cate with  certainty  what  new  openings  of  truth,  what  new  mani- 
festations of  goodness,  what  new  phases  of  the  moral  heaven 

may  appear. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


The  hand  of  God  never  tires,  nor  are  its  movements  aimless. 
It  makes  all  things  subservient  to  its  designs,  and,  at  every  turn, 
disappoints  the  calculations  of  man,  causing  the  most  insignifi- 
cant events  to  expand  to  the  mightiest  consequences,  while 
those   that   have    the    appearance    of  mountains   vanish    into 

nothing. 

—  John  Lanahan. 


Have  faith  !  where'er  thy  bark  is  driven, — 

The  calm's  disport,  the  tempest's  mirth, — 

Know  this  !    God  rules  the  host  of  heaven. 

The  inhabitants  of  earth. 

—  Schiller. 


GOD'S  TRINITY  — TRUTH.  285 

We  worship  unity  in  trinity,  and  trinity  in  unity  ;  neither  con- 
founding the  person  nor  dividing  the  substance.  There  is  one 
person  of  the  Father,  another  of  the  Son,  and  another  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  ;  but  the  Godhead  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  is  all  one;  the  glory  equal,  the  majesty 
co-eternal. 

—  Tertullian. 


Tell  me  how  it  is  that  in  this  room  there  are  three  candles 
and  but  one  light,  and  I  will  explain  to  you  the  mode  of  the 
Divine  existence. 

—  John  Wesley. 


Snow  is  water,  and  ice  is  water,  and  water  is  water  ;  these 
three  are  one. 

—  Joseph  Dare. 


God  hides  nothing.  His  very  work  from  the  beginning  is 
revelation, —  a  casting  aside  of  veil  after  veil,  a  showing  unto 
men  of  truth  after  truth.  On  and  on  from  fact  Divine  He  ad- 
vances, until  at  length  in  His  Son  Jesus  He  unveils  His  very 
face. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Time  that  weakens  all  things  else  has  but  strengthened  the 
impregnable  position  of  the  believer's  faith  and  hope  and  con- 
fidence. And  as,  year  by  year,  the  tree  adds  another  ring  to 
its  circumference,  every  age  has  added  the  testimony  of  its 
events  to  this  great  truth.  "  The  grass  withereth,  and  the 
flower  fadeth,  but  the  word  of  the  Lord  shall  endure  forever." 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


God's  truth  is  too  sacred  to    be   expounded   to   superficial 
vvorldliness  in  its  transient  fit  of  earnestness. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


386  GOODNESS. 


GOODNESS. 
Goodness  consists  not  in  the  outward  things  we  do,  but  in 
the  inward  thing  we  are.     To  be  is  the  great  thing. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


How  many  people  would  like  to  be  good,  if  only  they  might 
be  good  without  taking  trouble  about  it !  They  do  not  like 
goodness  well  enough  to  hunger  and  thirst  after  it,  or  to  sell 
all  that  they  have  that  tliey  may  buy  it ;  they  will  not  batter 
at  the  gate  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  ;  but  they  look  with 
pleasure  on  this  or  that  aerial  castle  of  righteousness,  and  think 
it  would  be  rather  nice  to  live  in  it. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Great  hearts  alone  understand  how  much  glory  there  is  in 
being  good. 

MiCHELET. 


Be  good  my  child,  and  let  who  will  be  clever  ; 
Do  noble  deeds,  not  dream  them  all  day  long  ; 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  forever 
One  grand,  sweet  song. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Be  not  simply  good ;  be  good  for  something. 

—  Thoreau. 


No  good  thing  is  ever  lost.  Nothing  dies,  not  even  life  which 
gives  up  one  form  only  to  resume  another.  No  good  action,  no 
good  example  dies.  It  lives  forever  in  our  race.  While  the 
frame  moulders  and  disappears,  the  deed  leaves  an  indelible 
stamp,  and  moulds  the  very  thought  and  will  of  future  genera- 
tions. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


GOSPEL.  287 

For  ever  and  ever,  my  darling,  yes  — 

Goodness  and  love  are  undying  ; 
Only  the  troubles  and  cares  of  earth 
Are  winged  from  the  first  for  flying. 
Our  way  we  plough 
In  the  furrow  "now  ;" 
But  after  the  tilling  and  growing  the  sheaf; 
Soil  for  the  root,  but  the  sun  for  the  leaf  — 
And  God  keepeth  watch  forever. 

—  Mary  Mapes  Dodge. 


Nothing  that  man  ever  invents  will  absolve  him  from  the 
universal  necessity  of  being  good  as  God  is  good,  righteous  as 
God  is  righteous,  and  holy  as  God  is  holy. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


He  who  believes  in  goodness  has  the  essence  of  all  faith.   He 
is  a  man  "  of  cheerful  yesterdays  and  confident  to-morrows." 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


We  cannot  rekindle  the  morning  beams  of  childhood ;  we 
cannot  recall  the  noontide  glory  of  youth  ;  we  cannot  bring  back 
the  perfect  day  of  maturity ;  we  cannot  fix  the  evening  rays  of 
age  m  the  shadowy  horizon ;  but  we  can  cherish  that  goodness 
which  is  the  sweetness  of  childhood,  the  joy  of  youth,  the 
strength  of  maturity,  the  honor  of  old  age,  and  the  bliss  of 
samts. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


GOSPEL. 


The  gospel  is  the  fulfillment  of  all  hopes,  the  perfection  of 
all  philosophy,  the  interpretation  of  all  revelation,  the  key  to 
all  the  seeming  contradictions  of  the  physical  and  moral  world. 

—  Max  MiJLLER. 


288  GOSPEL. 

It  is  the  grand  endeavor  of  the  gospel  to  communicate  God 

to  men. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


O,  marvelous  power  of  the  Divine    seed,  which  overpowers 

the  strong  man  armed,  softens  obdurate  hearts,  and  changes 

into  divine  men  those  who  were  brutalized  in  sin,  and  removed 

to  an  infinite  distance  from  God. 

—  John  Wycliffe. 


No  one  who  has  not  examined  patiently  and  honestly  the 
other  religions  of  the  world  can  know  what  Christianity  really 
is,  or  can  join  with  such  truth  and  sincerity  in  the  words  of  St. 
Paul,  "  I  am  not  ashamed  of  the  gospel  of  Christ." 

—  Max  MiJLLER. 


The  main  object  of  the  gospel  is  to  establish  two  principles, 

—  the   corruption   of   nature,    and    the    redemption  by    Jesus 

Christ. 

—  Pascal. 


Take  Christ  out  of  the  gospel,  and  you  take  its  very  heart 
out.  He  has  not  only  originated  a  system,  but  He  has  put  Him- 
self into  it,  as  its  very  life  and  soul  and  power. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


The  gospel  breathes  the  spirit  of  love.     Love  is  the  fulfilling 

of  its  precepts,  the  pledge  of  its  joys,  and  the  evidence  of  its 

power. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


Lincoln  did  but  pour  the  soul  of  the  nation  into  the  monu- 
mental act  of  universal  liberty  ;  and  that  soul  was  inspired  by 

the  gospel. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


GOSPEL.  289 

The  sweetness  of  the  gospel  lies  mostly  in  pronouns,  as  me, 
my,  thy.  "  Who  loved  me,  and  gave  Himself  for  me."  "  Christ 
Jesus  my  Lord."  "  Son,  be  of  good  cheer,  t/iysins  are  forgiven 
thee." 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Just  as  in  the  Father's  house  there  are  many  mansions,  so  to 
suit  the  various  moods  and  divers  cases  of  anxious  souls,  there 
are  many  chambers  and  compartments  in  the  gospel  citadel  ; 
but  the  very  lowest  and  simplest,  if  you  can  only  reach  it,  is 
Salvation.  The  nearest  to  the  level,  but  still  cleft  in  the  Rock, 
is  called  "  The  Faithful  Saying;"  and  above  its  doorway  you 
read,  "  Jesus  Christ  came  into  the  world  to  save  sinners." 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  idea  of  preaching  the  gospel  to  all  nations  alike,  regard- 
less of  nationality,  of  internal  divisions  as  to  rank  and  color, 
complexion  and  religion,  constituted  the  beginning  of  a  new 
era  in  history.  You  cannot  preach  the  gospel  in  its  purity  over 
the  world,  without  proclaiming  the  doctrine  of  civil  and  relig- 
ious liberty, —  without  overthrowing  the  barriers  reared  be- 
tween nations  and  clans  and  classes  of  men, —  without  ulti- 
mately undermining  the  thrones  of  despots,  and  breaking  off 
the  shackles  of  slavery,  —  without  making  men  everywhere 
free. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


I  thank  God  that  the  gospel  is  to  be  preached  to  every  crea- 
ture. There  is  no  man  so  far  gone,  but  the  grace  of  God  can 
reach  him;  no  man  so  desperate  or  black,  but  He  can  forgive 
him. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  vengeance  of  the  gospel  is  heavier  than  the  vengeance  of 
the  law. 

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290  GRATITUDE. 


Assertion  of  truths  known  and  felt,  promulgation  of  truth 

from  the  high  platform  of  truth  itself,  declaration  of  faith  by 

the  mouth  of  moral  conviction  —  this  is  the  New  Testament 

method,  and  the  true  one. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


GRATITUDE. 

Gratitude  is  the  memory  of  the  heart. 


We  can  set  our  deeds  to  the  music  of  a  grateful  heart,  and 
seek  to  round  our  lives  into  a  hymn  —  the  melody  of  which 
will  be  recognized  by  all  who  come  in  contact  with  us,  and 
the  power  of  which  shall  not  be  evanescent,  like  the  voice  of 
the  singer,  but  perenninal,  like  the  music  of  the  spheres. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Thankfulness  is  the  tune  of  angels. 

—  Edmund  Spenser. 


Did  you  ever  think  of  the  reason  why  the  Psalms  of  David 
have  come,  like  winged  angels,  down  across  all  the  realms  and 
ages, —  why  they  make  the  key-note  of  grateful  piety  in  every 
Christian's  soul,  wherever  he  lives  ?  Why  ?  Because  they  are 
so  full  of  gratitude.  "  Oh,  that  men  would  praise  the  Lord  for 
His  goodness  and  for  His  wonderful  works  to  the  children  of 
men  !" 

A.  A.    WiLLETS. 


Do  not  let  the  empty  cup  be  your  first  teacher  of  the  bless- 
ings you  had  when  it  was  full.  Do  not  let  a  hard  place  here 
and  there  in  the  bed  destroy  your  rest.  Seek,  as  a  plain  duty, 
to  cultivate  a  buoyant,  joyous  sense  of  the  crowded  kindnesses 

of  God  in  your  daily  life. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


GRAVE.  291 


GRAVE. 

The  grave  is  a  very  small  hillock,  but  we  can  see  farther 

from  it,  when  standing  on  it,  than  from  the  highest  mountain 

in  all  the  world. 

—  A.  Tholuck. 


Dark  lattice  !  letting  in  eternal  day  ! 

—  Young. 


For  ages  the  world  has  been  waiting  and  watching  ;  millions, 

with  broken  hearts,  have  hovered   around  the  yawning  abyss ; 

but  no  echo  has  come  back  from  the  engulfing  gloom  —  silence, 

oblivion,   covers    all.       If   indeed  they  survive  ;   if  they  went 

away  whole  and  victorious,  they  give  us  no  signals.     We  wait 

for  years,  but  no  messages  come  from  the  far-away  shore  to 

which  they  have  gone. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


The  earth  doth  not  cover  our  beloved,  but  heaven  hath  re- 
ceived him;  let  us  tarry  for  a  while,  and  we  shall  be  in  his 
company. 

—  St.  Basil. 


It  is  sweet  to  hold  converse  with  the  pious  dead.  A  holy 
influence  emanates  from  their  blissful  home,  and  fills  the  soul 
with  a  feeling  of  sacred  and  solemn  awe.  The  spirit  whispers 
peace,  and  fills  the  waiting  caverns  of  the  soul  with  the  bright 
hope  of  again  meeting  those  whom  we  believe  to  be  in  the 
abode  of  redeemed  and  happy  spirits. 

—  Mrs.  Jui.ia  Norton. 


Is  there  ever  a  time  when  the  sense  of  desolation  caused  by 
death  rolls  over  one  so  like  a  flood  as  when  returning  from  the 
grave  to  a  lonely  home .'' 


293  GREATNESS. 

There  is'  a  voice  from  the  tomb  sweeter  than  song.  There 
is  a  remembrance  of  the  dead  to  which  we  turn  even  from  the 
charms  of  the  Hving.  O,  the  grave !  the  grave !  It  buries 
every  error,  covers  every  defect,  extinguishes  every  resentment. 
From  its  peaceful  bosom  spring  none  but  fond  regrets  and 
tender  recollections. 

—  Washington  Irving. 


The  grave  has  a  door  on  its  inner  side. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


GREATNESS. 

The  greatest  man  is  he  who  chooses  the  right  with  the  most 
invincible  resolution  ;  who  resists  the  sorest  temptation  from 
within  and  without;  who  bears  the  heavest  burdens  cheerfully; 
who  is  calmest  in  storms,  and  most  fearless  under  menaces  and 
frowns  ;  whose  reliance  on  truth,  on  virtue,  and  on  God  is 
most  unfaltering. 

—  Seneca. 


Greatness   lies   not   in   being    strong,   but   in    the  using  of 

strength. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


True  greatness  does  not  consist  so  much  in  doing  extraordi- 
nary things,  as  in  conducting  ordinary  affairs  with  a  noble  de- 
meanor and  from  a  right  motive.  It  is  necessary  and  most 
profitable  to  remember  the  advice  to  Titus,  "  Showing  all  good 

fidelity  m  all  things." 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


A  solemn  and  religious  regard  to  spiritual  and  eternal  things 
is  an  indispensable  element  of  all  true  greatness. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


GROWTH  IN  GRACE.  293 

He  who  does  the  most  good  is  the  greatest  man.      Power, 

authority,  dignity;  honors,  wealth,  and  station,  —  these  are  so 

far  valuable  as  they  put  it  into  the  hands  of  men  to  be  more 

exemplary  and  more  useful  than  they  could  be  in  an  obscure 

and  private  life.     But   then  these  are  means  conducting  to  an 

end,  and  that  end  is  goodness. 

—  Bishop  Jortin. 


A  great  man,  I  take  it,  is  a  man  so  inspired  and  permeated 
with  the  ideas  of  God  and  the  Christly  spirit  as  to  be  too  mag- 
nanimous for  vengeance,  and  too  unselfish  to  seek  his  own  ends. 

—  David  Thomas. 


He  is  truly  great  that  is  great  in  charity.  He  is  truly  great 
that  is  little  in  himself,  and  maketh  no  account  of  any  height 
of  honor.  And  he  is  truly  learned  that  doeth  the  will  of  God, 
and  forsaketh  his  own  will. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


It  is,  in  a  great  measure,  by  raising  up  and  endowing  great 
minds  that  God  secures  the  advance  of  human  affairs,  and  the 
accomplishment  of  His  own  plans  on  earth. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


There  is  but  one  method,  and  that  is  hard  labor. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


GROWTH  IN  GRACE, 

The  highest  point  of  Christian  experience  is  to  press  forward. 
It  is  a  distinguishing  trait  in  the  character  of  every  good  man 
that  he  grows  in  grace.  Grace  in  the  heart  as  certainly  im- 
proves and  advances,  as  a  tree  thrives  in  a  kindly  and  well 
watered  soil. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


294  GROWTH  IN  GRACE. 

It  is  not  my  strength  that  grows,  so  much  as  God's  strength 
in  me,  which  is  given  more  abundantly  as  the  days  roll.  It  is 
so  given  on  one  condition.  If  my  faith  has  laid  hold  of  the 
infinite,  the  exhaustless,  the  immortal  energy  of  God,  unless 
there  is  something  fearfully  wrong  about  me,  I  shall  be  getting 
purer,  nobler,  wiser,  more  observant  of  His  will ;  gentler,  like 
Christ ;  every  way  fitter  for  His  service,  and  for  larger  service, 
as  the  days  increase. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Grow  as  a  palm-tree  on  God's  Mount  Zion ;  howbeit  shaken 

with  winds,  yet  the  root  is  fast. 

—  Rutherford. 


The  vendors  of  flowers  in  the  streets  of  London  are  wont  to 

commend  them  to  customers  by  crying:  "  All  a  blowing  and  a 

growing."       It  would  be  no  small  praise  to  Christians   if   we 

could  say  as  much  for  them. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


In  proportion  as  we  "  grow  in  grace  and  in  the  knowledge  of 
Christ,"  we  shall  grow  in  the  desire  that  the  Redeemer's  sover- 
eignty may  be  more  widely  and  visibly  extended. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


There  is  no   such  way  to  attain  to  greater  measures  of  grace, 
as  for  a  man  to  live  up  to  that  little  grace  he  has. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 

It  is  the  very  nature  of  grace  to  make  a  man  strive  to  be  most 

eminent  in  that  particular  grace  which  is  most  opposed  to  his 

bosom  sin. 

—  Thomas  Brooks, 


All  growth  that  is  not  towards  God  is  growing  to  decay. 


HABIT.  295 

If  you  have  nothing  of  the  spirit  of  prayer,  nothing  of  the 
love  of  the  brotherhood,  nothing  of  mortifying  the  spirit  of  the 
world,  nothing  of  growth  in  grace,  of  cordial,  habitual,  perse- 
vering obedience  to  the  Divine  commands,  how  can  it  be  that 
you  have  been  brought  nigh  by  the  blood  of  Christ  ? 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


May  we  grow  more  and  more  like  God  and  heaven,  more 
gracious,  helpful,  and  sweet-minded  ;  and  when  at  last  Thou 
hast  served  Thyself  by  us,  may  we  fall  asleep  in  Jesus,  and  find 
it  no  sleep,  but  everlasting  waking  in  Jesus. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


H. 


HABIT. 


A  large  part  of  Christian  virtue  consists  in  right  habits. 

—  Palev. 


Give  a  child  the  habit  of  sacredly  regarding  the  truth  —  of 
carefully  respecting  the  property  of  others  —  of  scrupulously 
abstaining  from  all  acts  of  improvidence  which  can  involve  him 
in  distress,  and  he  will  just  as  likely  think  of  rushing  into  the 
element  in  which  he  cannot  breathe,  as  of  lying  or  cheating  or 
stealing. 

—  Lord  Brougham. 


Centres,  or  centre-pieces  of  wood,  are  put  by  builders  under 
an  arch  of  stone  while  it  is  in  the  process  of  construction  till 
the  key-stone  is  put  in.  Just  such  is  the  use  Satan  makes  of 
pleasures  to  construct  evil  habits  upon ;  the  pleasure  lasts  till 
the  habit  is  fully  formed  ;  but  that  done,  the  habit  may  stand 
eternal.  The  pleasures  are  sent  for  firewood,  and  the  hell  be- 
gins in  this  life. 

—  Coleridge. 


296  HAPPINESS. 


Infinite  toil  would  not  enable  you  to  sweep  away  a  mist,  but 
by  ascending  a  little  you  may  often  look  over  it  altogether.  So 
it  is  with  our  moral  improvement ;  we  wrestle  fiercely  with  a 
vicious  habit,  which  could  have  no  hold  upon  us  if  we  ascended 
to  a  higher  atmosphere. 

—  Sir  Arthur  Helps. 


Habit  if  not  resisted  soon  becomes  necessity. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Every  sinful  act  is  another  cord  woven  into  that  mighty  cable 
of  habit,  which  binds  the  spirit  to  the  throne  of  darkness. 

—  David  Thomas.  - 


The  diminutive  chains  of  habit  are  seldom  heavy  enough  to 
be  felt,  till  they  are  too  strong  to  be  broken. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


HAPPINESS. 
Brethren,  happiness  is  not  our   being's  end  and  aim.     The 
Christian's  aim  is  perfection,  not  happiness;  and  every  one  of 
the    sons    of    God  must  have  something  of  that  spirit  which 
marked  his  Master. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  is  something  better  for  us  in  the  world  than  happiness. 
We  will  take  happiness  as  the  incident  of  this,  gladly  and  grate- 
fully. We  will  add  a  thousand  fold  to  the  happiness  of  the 
present  in  the  fearlessness  of  the  future  which  it  brings;  but  we 
will  not  place  happiness  first,  and  thus  cloud  our  heads  with 
doubts,  and  fill  our  hearts  with  discontent.  In  the  blackest 
soils  grow  the  richest  flowers,  and  the  loftiest  and  strongest  trees 

spring  heavenward  among  the  rocks. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


HAPPINESS.  297 


In  vain  do  they  talk  of  happiness  who  never  subdued  an  im- 
pulse in  obedience  to  a  principle.  He  who  never  sacrificed  a 
present  to  a  future  good,  or  a  personal  to  a  general  one,  can 
speak  of  happiness  only  as  the  blind  do  of  colors. 

—  Horace  Mann. 


The  sacrifices  required  in  the  Christian  life  are  necessary  to 
emancipate  the  soul,  and  raise  it  above  its.  servile  dependence 
on  condition.  They  are  losses  of  mere  happiness,  and  for  just 
that  reason  they  are  preparations  of  joy. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


It  is  a  great  truth,  wonderful  as  it  is  undeniable,  that  all  our 
happiness  —  temporal,  spiritual,  and  eternal  —  consists  in  one 
thing ;  namely,  in  resigning  ourselves  to  God,  and  in  leaving  our- 
selves with  Him,  to  do  with  us  and  in  us  just  as  He  pleases. 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


Happiness  is  neither  within  us  nor  without  us,  it  is  the  union 
of  ourselves  with  God. 

—  Pascal. 


Happiness  is  not  the  end  of  duty,  it  is  a  constituent  of  it.    It 
is  in  it  and  of  it ;  not  an  equivalent,  but  an  element. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


When  we  are  not  too  anxious  about  happiness  and  unhappi- 
ness,  but  devote  ourselves  to  the  strict  and  unsparing  perform- 
ance of  duty,  then  happiness  comes  of  itself  —  nay,  even  springs 
from  the  midst  of  a  life  of  troubles  and  anxieties  and  privations. 

—  Humboldt. 


So  long  as  you  do  not  quarrel  with  sin,  you  will  never  be  a 
truly  happy  man. 

—  J.  C.  Rvle. 


298  HATRED. 

Beware  what  earth  calls  happiness ;  beware 
All  joys,  but  joys  that  never  can  expire. 


—  Young. 


All  that  I  have  known  of  happiness  has  come  to  me  through 
being  made  a  child  again.  The  efforts  to  find  something  to 
satisfy  my  inward  longings,  which  were  made  through  the  intel- 
lectual nature,  were  as  powerless  to  sustain  me  as  a  theory  of 
bread-making  would  be  to  satisfy  a  hungry  man.  How  far  our 
sorrows  and  losses  may  help  us  in  making  us  willing  to  receive 
what  Heaven  bestows,  I  know  not ;  but  when  we  find  how  fruit- 
less our  efforts  are,  we  are  as  helpless  as  little  children.  Then, 
if  humble  and  willing  to  wait,  Jesus  Christ  will  Himself  come 
to  us,  a  dear,  human  friend  ;  and  then  we  shall  be  surprised  to 
find  He  was  walking  with  us  all  the  while  when  the  path  seemed 
so  dark  and  lonely,  and,  dear  me !  how  different  every  thing 
now  appears.  The  world  looks  too  beautiful  to  leave,  yet, 
somehow,  we  were  never  so  willing  to  leave  it. 

—  The  New  York  Observer. 


The  soul's  calm  sunshine. 

—  Pope. 


Happiness  is  not  perfected  until  it  is  shared. 

—  Jane  Porter. 

HATRED. 

I  will  tell  you  what  to  hate.  Hate  hypocrisy,  hate  cant,  hate 
indolence,  oppression,  injustice;  hate  Pharisaism;  hate  them 
as  Christ  hated  them  —  with  a  deep,  living,  godlike  hatred. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


We  ourselves  also  were  sometimes  living  in  malice  and  envy, 

hateful,  and  hating  one  another. 

—  Bible. 


HEALTH  — HEAVEN.  299 


HEALTH. 

Health  is  the  handle  by  which  we  can  apprehend  and  per- 
ceive pleasures ;  and  that  sauce  which  alone  makes  life  deli- 
cious. 


Thank  Him  for  health.  Consecrate  it  as  His  trust  to  inno- 
cent enjoyment,  manly  effort,  social  usefulness,  and  prepara- 
tion for  an  honorable  and  holy  career. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Christ's  gospel  could  never  have  been  delivered  by  one  who 
was  diseased. 

—  John  McC.  Holmes. 


HEAVEN. 

O  rest  of  rests  !  O  peace  serene,  eternal ! 

Thou  ever  livest,  and  Thou  changest  never  ! 
And  in  the  secret  of  Thy  presence  dwelleth 
•  Fullness  of  joy,  forever  and  forever. 

—  Mrs.  H.  B.  Stowe. 


We  are  born  for  a  higher  destiny  than  earth ;  there  is  a  realm 
where  the  rainbow  never  fades,  where  the  stars  will  be  spread 
before  us  like  islands  that  slumber  on  the  ocean,  and  where  the 
beings  that  pass  before  us  like  shadows  will  stay  in  our  pres- 
ence forever.  — Bulwer  Lytton. 


When  this  passing  world  is  done, 

When  has  sunk  yon,  glowing  sun, 
When  we  stand  with  Christ  in  glory, 

Looking  o'er  life's  finished  story, 
Then,  Lord,  shall  I  fully  know  — 

Not  till  then  —  how  much  I  owe. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


300  HEAVEN. 

I  cannot  be  content  with  less  than  heaven. 


—  P.  J.  Bailey. 


Heaven  is  attracting  to  itself  whatever  is  congenial  to  its 

nature,  is  enriching  itself  by  the  spoils  of  earth,  and  collecting 

within  its  capacious  bosom  whatever  is  pure,  permanent,  and 

divine. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


No  wearisome  days,  no  sorrowful  nights;  no  hunger  or  thirst; 
no  anxiety  or  fears;  no  envies,  no  jealousies,  no  breaches  of 
friendship,  no  sad  separations,  no  distrusts  or  forebodings,  no 
self-reproaches,  no  enmities,  no  bitter  regrets,  no  tears,  no 
heartaches;  "And  there  shall  be  no  more  death,  neither  sor- 
row, nor  crying,  neither  shall  there  be  any  more  pain;  for  the 

former  things  are  passed  away." 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


No  more  fatigue,  no  more  distress. 
Nor  sin  nor  death  shall  reach  the  place ; 
No  groans  shall  mingle  with  the  songs 
That  warble  from  immortal  tongues. 

—  Philip  Doddridge. 


Christ  and  His   cross  are  not  separable  in  this  life,  howbeit 

Christ  and  His  cross  part  at  heaven's  door,  for  there  is  no 

house-room  for  crosses  in  heaven.     One  tear,  one  sigh,  one  sad 

heart,  one  fear,  one  loss,  one  thought  of  trouble  cannot  find 

lodging    there. 

—  Rutherford. 


"A  little  while,"  and  the  load 

Shall  drop  at  the  pilgrim's  feet, 
Where  the  steep  and  thorny  road 

Doth  merge  in  the  golden  street. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


HEAVEN.  301 

After  the  fever  of  life  —  after  wearinesses,  sicknesses,  fight- 
ings and  despondings,  languor  and  fretfulness,  struggling  and 
failing,  struggling  and  succeeding  —  after  all  the  changes  and 
chances  of  this  troubled  and  unhealthy  state,  at  length  comes 
death  —  at  length   the  white  throne  of    God  —  at    length  the 

beatific  vision. 

—  Newman. 


No  aching  hearts  are  there. 
No  tear-dimmed  eye,  no  form  by  sickness  wasted, 
No  cheek  grown  pale  through  penury  or  care, 
No  spirits  crushed  beneath  the  woes  they  bear, 

No  sighs  for  bliss  untasted. 


And  then,  the  quiet  of  the  green,  inland  valleys  of  our 
Father's  land,  where  no  tempest  comes  any  more,  nor  the  loud 
winds  are  ever  heard,  nor  the  salt  sea  is  ever  seen  ;  but  per- 
petual calm  and  blessedness  ;  all  mystery  gone,  and  all  rebellion 
hushed  and  silenced,  and  all  unrest  at  an  end  forever  !  "  No 
more  sea;"  but,  instead  of  that  wild  and  yeasty  chaos  of  turbu- 
lent waters,  there  shall  be  the  river  that  makes  glad  the  city 
of  God,  the  river  of  water  of  life,  that  proceeds  "  out  of  the 
throne  of  God  and  of  the  Lamb." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


An  everlasting  tranquillity  is,  in  my  imagination,  the  highest 
possible  felicity,  because  I  know  of  no  felicity  on  earth  higher 
than  that  which  a  peaceful  mind  and  contented  heart  afford. 

—  Zimmerman. 


There  fragrant  flowers  immortal  bloom, 
And  joys  supreme  are  given  ; 

There  rays  Divine  disperse  the  gloom  ; 

Beyond  the  confines  of  the  tomb 
Appears  the  dawn  of  heaven. 


302  HEAVEN. 


Selfishness,  eager  for  a  heaven  of  enjoyment,  is  quite  a  differ- 
ent thing  in  the  soul  from  love  and  purity  and  truth,  yearning 
together  for  what  is  their  natural  element. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


The  redeemed  shall  walk  there. 

—  Bible. 


What  tranquillity  will  there  be  in  heaven  !  Who  can  express 
the  fullness  and  blessedness  of  this  peace  !  What  a  calm  is  this  ! 
How  sweet  and  holy  and  joyous !  What  a  haven  of  rest  to 
enter,  after  having  passed  through  the  storms  and  tempests  of 
this  world,  in  which  pride  and  selfishness  and  envy  and  mal- 
ice and  scorn  and  contempt  and  contention  and  vice  are  as 
waves  of  a  restless  ocean,  always  rolling,  and  often  dashed  about 
in  violence  and  fury  !  What  a  Canaan  of  rest  to  come  to,  after 
going  through  this  waste  and  howling  wilderness,  full  of  snares 
and    pitfalls  and  poisonous    serpents,  where   no  rest  could  be 

found. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


O,  land  of    rest,  how   near  thou    art !    O,  judgment-seat   of 

Jesus,  how    thin  are    the  clouds  that    veil  thee  !    Through  the 

rifts  of  cloudland  shine  rays  from  this  righteous  crown.       It  is 

"laid  up  "  for  him  whose  hope  can  never  be  satisfied  with  less 

than  the  presence  of  the  King. 

—  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr. 


Thither  my  weak  and  weary  steps  are  tending ; 

Saviour  and  Lord  !  with  Thy  frail  child  abide  ; 
Guide  me  toward  home,  where,  all  my  wanderings  ended, 

I  there  shall  see  Thee,  and  be  satisfied. 


One  should  go  to  sleep  as  homesick  passengers  do,  saying 
"  Perhaps  in  the  morning  we  shall  see  the  shore." 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


HEAVEN.  303 

And  looking  back  upon  "  the  sea  that  brought  us  thither,"  we 
shall  behold  its  waters  flashing  in  the  light  of  that  everlasting 
morning,  and  hear  them  breaking  into  music  upon  the  eternal 
shore.  And  then,  brethren,  when  all  the  weary  night-watchers 
on  the  stormy  ocean  of  life  are  gathered  together  around  Him 
who  watched  with  them  from  His  throne  on  the  bordering  moun- 
tains of  eternity,  where  the  day  shines  forever  —  then  He  will 
seat  them  at  Hi's  table  in  His  kingdom,  and  none  will  need  to 
ask,  "Who  art  Thou?"  or,  "Where  am  I?"  "  for  all  shall 
know  it  is  the  Lord,"  and  the  full,  perfect,  unchangeable  vision 
of  His  blessed  face  will  be  heaven. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


In  our  Father  s  house  it  will  not  be  the  pearl  gate  or  the 
streets  of  gold  that  will  make  us  happy.  But  oh,  how  tran- 
scendently  glad  shall  we  be  when  we  see  our  Lord.  Perhaps  in 
that  "upper  room,"  also.  He  may  show  us  His  hands  and  His 
side,  and  we  may  cry  out  with  happy  Thomas,  "  My  Lord  and 
my  God  !" 

T.    L.   CUYLER. 


Oh,  heaven  without  my  Saviour 

Would  be  no  heaven  to  me  ; 
Dim  were  the  walls  of  jasper  — 

Rayless  the  crystal  sea. 
He  gilds  earth's  darkest  valleys 

With  light  and  joy  and  peace; 
What  then  must  be  the  radiance 

When  night  and  death  shall  cease  ? 

—  Helen  L.  Parmlee. 


To  be  in  heaven  is  to  lean  one's  head  upon  the  breast  of 
Jesus.  You  have  done  it  on  earth.  Then  you  know  what 
heaven  is.  To  be  in  heaven  is  to  talk  with  Jesus,  to  sit  at  His 
feet,  to  let  our  heart  beat  against  His  breast. 


304  HEAVEN. 

There  remaineth  therefore  a  rest  to  the  people  of  God. 

—  Bible, 


Jerusalem  !  my  happy  home  ! 

My  soul  still  pants  for  thee. 
Then  shall  my  labors  have  an  end, 

When  I  thy  joys  shall  see. 


Perhaps  heaven  may  not  be  so  far  away  as  we  fancy  ;  and  if 
our  eyes  were  not  holden,  we  should  see  angels  ascending  and 
descending,  and  blessed  spirits  thronging  all  about  us. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


There  is  not  such  a  great  difference  between  grace  and  glory 

after  all.     Grace  is  the  bud,  and  glory  is  the  blossom.       Grace 

is  glory  begun  ;  and  glory  is  grace  perfected.      It  won't  come 

hard  to  people  that  are  serving  God   down  here  to  do  it  when 

they  go  up  yonder.      They  will  change  places,  but  they  won't 

change  employments. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


I  change  my  place,  but  not  my  company.    While  here  I  have 
sometimes  walked  with  God,  and  now  I  go  to  rest  with  Him. 

—  Dr.  Preston. 


Every  Christian  that  goes  before  us  from  this  world  is  a  ran- 
somed spirit  waiting  to  welcome  us  in  heaven. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


Beyond  !   beyond  !  oh,  blest  beyond  ! 

Oh,  heaven,  eternal,  peaceful,  free ! 
Oh,  home  on  high  !   I  haste  from  bonds 

To  find  God's  boundless  rest  in  thee  ; 
And  saints  beyond 

Shall  crowd  thy  gates  to  welcome  me. 


HEAVEN.  305 

What  we  sow  here,  we  reap  there  !  Can  it  be  supposed  that 
the  soul  will  enjoy  a  reward  or  endure  a  retribution  for  deeds 
of  which  it  has  no  recollection  ?  Is  the  thing  possible  ?  Will  it 
enjoy  the  bliss  of  heaven,  praising  Christ  forever  as  its  great 
Saviour,  without  any  remembrance  of  the  sins  and  sufferings 
from  which  He  redeemed  and  saved  it  ?    The  idea  is  absurd. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


Death  must  obliterate  all  memories  and  affections  and  ideas 
and  laws,  or  the  awakening  in  the  next  world  will  be  amid  the 
welcomes,  and  lovesand  raptures  of  those  who  left  us  with  tear- 
ful farewells,  and  with  dying  promises  that  they  would  wait  to 
welcomes  us  when  we  should  arrive.  And  so  they  do.  Not 
sorrowfully,  not    anxiously,  but    lovingly,  they    wait  to  bid  us 

welcome. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


With  Christ,  and  like  Christ,  and  not  love  our  friends  !  Im- 
possible !  when  He  loves  them  so  tenderly.  Going  into  the 
fuller  presence  of  Him  whose  very  name  is  "  Love  "  can  never 
make  our  hearts  less  loving. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


I  shall  know  the  loved  who  have  gone  before, 
And  joyfully  sweet  will  the  meeting  be, 

When  over  the  river,  the  peaceful  river, 
The  angel  of  death  shall  carry  me. 

—  N.  A.  W.  Priest. 


Then  re-united  to  the  friends  with  whom   we  took    sweet 

counsel  upon  earth,  we  shall  recount  our  toil,  only  to  heighten 

our  ecstasy;  and  call  to  mind  the  toil  and  the  din  of  war,  only 

that,  with  a  more  bounding  throb   and  a  richer  song,  we  may 

feel  and  celebrate  the  wonders  of  redemption. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 
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306  HEAVEN. 


Blessed  loves!  how  happy  they  have  made  us  on  the  earth; 
what  will  they  be  when  they  have  deepened  through  ages,  with 
no  alloy  of  envy  or  suspicion  or  selfishness  or  sorrow  ? 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


What  delight  will  it  afford  to   renew  the  sweet  counsel  we 

have  taken  together,  to  recount  the  toils,  the  combats,  and  the 

labor  of    the    way,  and   to   approach,  not  the  house,  but  the 

throne  of  God,  in  company,  in  order  to  join  in  the  symphonies 

of  heavenly  voices,  and  lose  ourselves  amidst  the  splendors  and 

fruitions  of  the  beatific  vision. 

—  Robert  Hall. 


God  would  never  have  let  us  long  for  our  friends  with  such 
a  strong  and  holy  love,  if  they  were  not  waiting  for  us. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


They  are  kings  and  priests  unto  God.  They  wear  crowns 
that  flash  in  the  everlasting  light.  They  wear  robes  that  are 
spotlessly  white.  They  wave  victorious  palms.  They  sing 
anthems  of  such  exceeding  sweetness  as  no  earthly  choirs  ever 
approach.  They  stand  before  the  throne.  They  fly  on  minis- 
tries of  love.  They  muse  on  the  top  of  Mount  Zion.  They 
meditate  on  the  banks  of  the  river  of  life.  They  are  rapturous 
with  ecstasies  of  love.     God  wipes  away  all  tears  from  their 

.eyes. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


Soon  shall  we  meet  again, 

Meet  ne'er  to  sever  ; 
Soon  shall  peace  wreathe  her  chain 

Round  us  forever  ; 
Our  hearts  will  then  repose 

Secure  from  worldly  woes 
Our  songs  of  praise  shall  close 

Never  —  no,  never! 


HEAVEN.  307 


In  heaven,  knowledge  shall  be  commensurate  with  the  en- 
larged powers  of  the  glorified  soul.  — T.  L.  Cuyler. 


The  joys  of  heaven  are  not  the  joys  of  passive  contempla- 
tion, of  dreamy  remembrance,  of  perfect  repose  ;  but  they  are 
described  thus  :  "They  rest  not  day  nor  night."  "His  ser- 
vants serve  Him,  and  see  His  face." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Man  has  in  his  power,  now  developed,  nothing  more  than  a 
mere  hint  or  initial  sign  of  what  is  to  be  the  real  stature  of  his 
personality  in  the  process  of  his  everlasting  development.  We 
exist  here  only  in  the  small,  that  God  may  have  us  in  a  state 
of  flexibility,  and  bend  or  fashion  us,  at  the  best  advantage,  to 
the  model  of  His  own  great  life  and  character. 

—  Horace  BusHNELL. 


It  doth  not  yet  appear  what  we  shall  be.  We  lie  here  in  our 
nest,  unfledged  and  weak,  guessing  dimly  at  our  future,  and 
scarce  believing  what  even  now  appears.  But  the  power  is  in 
us,  and  that  power  is  finally  to  be  revealed.  And  what  a  reve- 
lation will  that  be ! 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Will  not  this  be  the  description  of  our  future  being  —  "  reach- 
ing forth  unto  those  things  which  are  before?"  I  believe  that 
we  shall  thus  live  through  all  the  eternities  that  are  before  us, 
growing  wiser,  nobler,  stronger,  greater ;  plunging  deeper  into 
God,  and  being  more  and  more  filled  with  more  and  more  of 
Him.  So  we  shall  move  forever  as  in  ascending  spirals  that 
rise  ever  higher,  and  draw  ever  closer  to  the  throne  we  com- 
pass and  to  Him  that  dwells  alone  ;  ever  perfect,  yet  ever 
growing,  for  we  have  an  inexhaustible  Saviour  to  absorb  into 
our  hearts,  and  we  have  hearts  that  never  reach  the  ultimate 
bound  and  term  of  their  indefinite  possibility  of  receiving. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


308  HEAVEN. 

Heaven   is   endless   longing,  accompanied   with    an    endless 
fruition  —  a  longing  which   is  blessedness,  a  longing  which  is 

life. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


As  we  look  up  into  these  glorious  culminations,  how  grand 
life  becomes  !  To  be  forever  with  the  Lord,  and  forever  chang- 
ing into  His  likeness,  and,  still  more,  forever  deepening  in  the 
companionship  of  His  thought  and  bliss,  "  from  glory  to  glory," 

—  could  we  desire  more  ? 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


We  should  carry  up  our  affections  to  the  mansions  prepared 
for  us  above,  where  eternity  is  the  measure,  felicity  the  state, 
angels  the  company,  the  Lamb  the  light,  and  God  the  inherit- 
ance and  portion  of  His  people  forever. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Yes,  it  is  a  truth  that  for  a  good  man, —  honored,  beloved, 
useful, —  with  all  around  him  that  God  ever  gives  to  His  chil- 
dren here  ; —  nay,  with  all  that  God  could  give  him  of  earth,  it 
would  be  "  gain  "  to  die.    Heaven  is  a  better,  a  happier,  a  more 

desirable  world  than  this  is  or  can  be. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Beyond  the  smiling  and  the  weeping, 

I  shall  be  soon ; 
Beyond  the  waking  and  the  sleeping, 
Beyond  the  sowing  and  the  reaping, 

I  shall  be  soon  ! 
Love,  rest,  and  home  — 
Sweet  hope  !  Lord,  tarry  not,  but  come! 

—  Horatius  Bonar. 


Heaven  is  my  Fatherland, 
Heaven  is  my  home. 


HEAVENLY   INFLUENCES  309 

Oh,  when  shall  the  night  be  gone,  the  shadovvs  flee  away,  and 
the  morning  of  that  long,  long  day,  without  cloud  or  night, 
dawn ' 

—  Rutherford. 


Rejoice,  oh  !  grieving  heart. 

The  hours  fly  past  ; 
With  each  some  sorrow  dies. 
With  each  some  shadow  flies. 

Until  at  last 
The  red  dawn  in  the  east 
Bids  weary  night  depart. 

And  pain  is  past. 


—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


When  the  day  of  toil  is  done. 
When  the  race  of  life  is  run, 
Father,  grant  Thy  wearied  one 

Rest  for  evermore  ! 
When  the  heart  by  sorrow  tried 
Feels  at  length  its  throbs  subside, 
Bring  us,  where  all  tears  are  dried, 

Joy  for  evermore  ! 

C.   C.   SCHOLEFIELD. 


HEAVENLY  INFLUENCES. 

Millions  of  spiritual  beings  walk  the  earth  unseen, 
Both  when  we  wake,  and  when  we  sleep. 


Milton. 


Hands  of  invisible  spirits  touch  the  strings 
Of  that  mysterious  instrument,  the  soul, 
And  play  the  prelude  of  our  fate. 

—  Longfellow. 


310  HEAVENLY   INFLUENCES. 

Do  we  not  hear  voices,  gentle  and  great,  and  some  of  them 
Hke  the  voices  of  departed  friends, —  do  we  not  hear  them  say- 
ing to  us,  "  Come  up  hither  ?" 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Yes,  thank  God  !  there  is  rest  —  many  an  interval  of  saddest, 
sweetest  rest — even  here,  when  it  seems  as  if  evening  breezes 
from  that  other  land,  laden  with  fragrance,  played  upon  the 
cheeks,  and  lulled  the  heart.  There  are  times,  even  on  the 
stormy  sea,  when  a  gentle  whisper  breathes  softly  as  of  heaven, 
and  sends  into  the  soul  a  dream  of  ecstasy  which  can  never  again 
wholly  die,  even  amidst  the  jar  and  whirl  of  daily  life.  How 
such  whispers  make  the  blood  stop  and  the  flesh  creep  with  a 
sense  of  mysterious  communion  !  How  singularly  such  mo- 
ments are  the  epochs  of  life  —  the  few  points  that  standout 
prominently  in  the  recollection  after  the  flood  of  years  has 
buried  all  the  rest,  as  all  the  low  shore  disappears,  leaving  only 
a  few  rock  points  visible  at  high  tide. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  are  times  in  the  history  of  men  and  nations,  when  they 
stand  so  near  the  vail  that  separates  mortals  from  the  immor- 
tals, time  from  eternity,  and  men  from  their  God,  that  they  can 
almost  hear  the  beatings,  and  feel  the  pulsations,  of  the  heart  of 

the  Infinite. 

—  James  A.  Garfield. 


It  may  be  that  at  this  moment  every  battlement  of  heaven  is 

alive  with  the  redeemed.     There  is  a  sainted  mother  watching 

for  her  daughter.     Have  you  no  response  to  that  long  hushed 

voice  which  has-prayed  for  you  so  often  }     And  for  you,  young 

man,  are  there  no  voices  there  that  have  prayed  for  you  ?    And 

are  there  none  whom  you  promised  once  to  meet  again,  if  not 

on  earth,  in  heaven  ? 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


HELL.  311 


HELL. 

What  will  you  do  in  a  world  where  the  Holy  Spirit  never 
strives  ;  where  every  soul  is  fully  left  to  its  own  depravity  ;  and 
where  there  i^  no  leisure  for  repentance,  if  there  were  even  the 
desire,  but  where  there  is  too  much  present  pain  to  admit  re- 
pentance ;  where  they  gnaw  their  tongues  with  pain,  and  blas- 
pheme the  God  of  heaven  ? 

—  James  Hamilton. 


An  immortality  of  pain  and  tears  ;  an  infinity  of  wretched- 
ness and  despair;  the  blackness  of  darkness  across  which  con- 
science will  forever  shoot  her  clear  and  ghastly  flashes,  — like 
lightning  streaming  over  a  desert  when  midnight  and  tempest 
are  there  ;  weeping  and  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth  ;  long, 
.long  eternity,  and  things  that  will  make  eternity  seem  longer, — 
making  each  moment  seem  eternity, —  oh,  miserable  condition 

of  the  damned  ! 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


The  Lamb  is,  indeed,  the  emblem  of  love  ;  but  what  so  terri- 
ble as  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb  ?  The  depth  of  the  mercy  de- 
spised is  the  measure  of  the  punishment  of  him  that  despiseth. 
No  more  fearful  words  than  those  of  the  Saviour.  The  threat- 
enings  of  the  law  were  temporal,  those  of  the  gospel  are  eternal. 
It  is  Christ  who  reveals  the  never-dying  worm,  the  utiquenchable 
fire,  and  He  who  contrasts  with  the  eternal  joys  of  the  redeemed 
the  everlasting  luoes  of  the  lost.  His  loving  arms  would  enfold 
the  whole  human  race,  but  not  while  impenitent  or  unbelieving; 
the  benefits  of  His  redemption  are  conditional. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


Many  might  go  to  heaven  with  half  the  labor  they  go  to  hell, 
if  they  would  venture  their  industry  the  right  way, 

—  Ben  Jonson. 


312  HEROISM. 


The  longer  men  sin,  the  more  easily  they  can  ;  for  every  act 
of  transgression  weakens  conscience,  stupefies  intellect,  hardens 
hearts,  adds  force  to  bad  habits,  and  takes  force  from  good  ex- 
ample. And,  surely,  there  is  nothing  in  such  associations,  as 
wicked  affinities  will  insure  to  the  sinner  in  the  future  state,  to 
incline  him  to  repentance. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


The  mind  is  its  own  place,  and  in  itself 
Can  make  a  heaven  of  hell,  a  hell  of  heaven. 

—  Milton. 


HEROISM. 

True  heroism  is  alike  positive  and  progressive.  It  sees  in 
right  the  duty  which  should  dominate,  and  in  truth  the  principle 
which  should  prevail.  And  hence  it  never  falters  in  the  faith 
that  always  and  everywhere  sin  must  be  repressed,  and  right- 
eousness exalted. 

—  John  McC.  Holmes. 


Never  was  there  a  time,  in  the  history  of  the  world,  when 
moral  heroes  were  more  needed.  The  world  waits  for  such, 
the  providence  of  God  has  commanded  science  to  labor  and 
prepare  the  way  for  such.  For  them  she  is  laying  her  iron 
tracks,  and  stretching  her  wires,  and  bridging  the  oceans.  But 
where  are  they  ?  Who  shall  breathe  into  our  civil  and  polit- 
ical relations  the  breath  of  a  higher  life  ?  Who  shall  touch  the 
eyes  of  a  paganized  science,  and  of  a  pantheistic  philosophy, 
that  they  may  see  God  ?  Who  shall  consecrate  to  the  glory  of 
God,  the  triumphs  of  science  ?     Who  shall  bear  the  life-boat 

to  the  stranded  and  perishing  nations  ? 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


He  that  is  slow  to  anger  is  better  than  the  mighty ;  and  he 
that  ruleth  his  spirit  than  he  that  taketh  a  city. 


HEROISM.  313 


The  courage  of  Daniel  is  true  heroism.  It  is  not  physical 
daring,  such  as  beneath  some  proud  impulse  will  rush  upon  an 
enemy's  steel;  it  is  not  reckless  valor,  sporting  with  a  life  which 
ill-fortune  has  blighted  or  which  despair  has  rnade  intolerable; 
it  is  not  the  passiveness  of  the  stoic,  through  whose  indifferent 
heart  no  tides  of  feeling  flow;  it  is  the  calm  courage  which  re- 
flects upon  its  alternatives,  and  deliberately  chooses  to  do  right; 
it  is  the  determination  of  Christian  principle,  whose  foot  resteth 
on  the  rock,  and  whose  eye  pierceth  into  heaven. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


With  quaint  manners  and  quaint  names  these  men  had  the 
hero's  heart  and  the  confessor's  faith.  Their  faith  was,  indeed, 
their  strength.  Strong  in  the  supremacy  of  conscience,  in  that 
real  earnestness  which  springs  from  conviction,  and  which 
prompts  to  enterprise;  far-sighted  in  political  sagacity,  because 
seeing  Him  that  is  invisible ;  shrewd  enough  to  know  that  the 
truest  policy  for  the  life  that  now  is,  is  a  reverent  recognition 
of  the  life  that  is  to  come,  they  were  brave  in  endurance  and 
patient  under  trial;  and  never  losing  sight  of  the  principle  for 
which  they  struggled,  and  of  the  purpose  of  their  voyage  afar, 
they   "  won  the  wilderness  for  God." 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


Don't  aim  at  any  impossible  heroisms.  Strive  rather  to  be 
quiet  in  your  own  sphere.  Don't  live  in  the  cloudland  of  some 
transcendental  heaven  ;  do  your  best  to  bring  the  glory  of  a 
real  heaven  down,  and  ray  it  out  upon  your  fellows  in  this 
work-day  world.  Seek  to  make  trade  bright  with  a  spotless 
integrity,  and  business  lustrous  with  the  beauty  of  holiness. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  grandest  of  heroic  deeds  are  those  which  are  performed 
within  four  walls  and  in  domestic  privacy. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


314  HOLINESS. 


The  calm,  tranquil  energy  of  the  Redeemer's  soul  ;  the  deep 
strength  of  principle  which  nothing  could  shake  ;  the  serene 
courage  which  looked  down  upon  menaces,  clamor,  contumely, 
sacrifice,  death,  —  this  is  the  temper  which  pours  contempt 
upon  the  intrepidity  of  heroes,  but  which  the  Holy  Spirit  in- 
fuses into  the  humble  Christian. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


HOLINESS. 
Holiness  is  an  unselfing  of  ourselves. 


—  F.  W.  Faber. 


Holiness  is  religious  principle  put  into  motion.  It  is  the 
love  of  God  sent  forth  into  circulation,  on  the  feet,  and  with 
the  hands  of  love  to  men.  It  is  faith  gone  to  work.  It  is 
charity  coined  into  actions,  and  devotion  breathing  benedic- 
tions on  human  suffering,  while  it  goes  up  in  intercession  to 
the  Father  of  all  piety. 

—  F.  D.  Huntington. 


And  now  because  you  are  His  child,  live  as  a  child  of  God; 
be  redeemed  from  the  life  of  evil,  which  is  false  to  your  nature, 
into  the  life  of  goodness,  which  is  the  truth  of  your  being. 
Scorn  all  that  is  mean;  hate  all  that  is  false;  struggle  with  all 
that  is  impure  Live  the  simple,  lofty  life  which  befits  an  heir 
of  immortality. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  inquirer  after  holiness  should  associate  with  those  whose 
intelligence  will  instruct  him;  whose  example  will  guide  him; 
whose  conversation  will  inspire  him;  whose  cautions  will  warn 
him. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


HOLINESS.  315 


Holiness  is  happiness;  and  the  more  you  have  of  the  former, 
the  more  you  will  undoubtedly  enjoy  of  the  latter. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


I  make  it  my  constant  prayer  that  God  would  most  graciously 
be  pleased  to  dispose  us  all  to  do  justice,  to  love  mercy,  and  to 
demean  ourselves  with  that  charity,  humility,  and  pacific  temper 
of  mind,  which  were  the  characteristics  of  the  Divine  Author 
of  our  blessed  religion;  without  a  humble  imitation  of  whose 
example  in  these  things,  we  can  never  hope  to  be  a  happy  na- 
tion. 

—  George  Washington. 


How  much  better  it  is  to  see  men  live  exactly  than  to  hear 
them  argue  with  subtlety  ! 

—  John    Flavel. 


A  man's  life  is  an  appendix  to  his  heart. 

—  South. 


Just  as  sure  as  the  days  go  by,  Jesus  will  come  to  us,  looking 
for  fruit ;  and  He  will  come  in  personal  hunger,  needing  and 
longing  for  the  fruit  which  we  might  have  ready  for  Him. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


God  looketh  upon  any  thing  we  say,  or  any  thing  we  do,  and 

if  He  seeth  Christ  in  it,  He  accepteth  it ;  but  if  there  be  no 

Christ,  He  putteth  it  away  as  a  foul  thing. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Harbor  no  thought,  neither  do  any  act  you  would  be  unwill- 
ing the  whole  world  should  know. 

—  Albert  Matthews. 


Must  it  come  through  trial  —  is  suffering  the  only  way  in. 
which  holiness  can  be  reached  ? 


316  HOLINESS. 


Seek   and  possess  holiness,  and  consolation  will  follow,  as 

assuredly  as  warmth  follows  the  dispensation  of  the  rays  of  the 

sun. 

—  Upham. 


What  Christianity  in  her  antagonism  with  every  form  of  un- 
belief most  needs  is  holy  living. 

—  Christlieb. 


The  narrow  way,  the  way  of  holiness,  not  only  leads  to  life, 

but  it  is  life.      Walking  there,  serene  are  our  days,  peaceful  our 

nights,  happy  —  high  above  the  disorders  and    miseries  of  a 

wretched  world  —  shall  be  our  hourly  communion  with  God; 

happy  —  full  of  assurance,  of  calm  and  sacred  triumph,  shall  be 

our  dying  hour. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


We  must  keep  up  the  standard  of  Christian  living  in  the 
Christian  laborer.  Clean  hands  are  needed  to  do  Christian 
work.  Character  is  before  co-operation,  being  before  doing. 
"Take  heed  unto  thyself,  and  unto  the  doctrine." 

—  John  Hall. 


Holiness  is  the  architectural  plan  upon  which  God  buildeth 
up  His  living  temple. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Are  angels  my  attendants  ?  Then  I  should  walk  worthy  of 
my  companionship.  Am  I  so  soon  to  go  and  dwell  with  angels? 
Then  I  should  be  pure.  Are  these  feet  so  soon  to  tread  the 
courts  of  heaven  1  Is  this  tongue  so  soon  to  unite  with  heav- 
enly beings  in  praising  God  ?  Are  these  eyes  so  soon  to  look 
on  the  throne  of  eternal  glory,  and  on  the  ascended  Redeemer .-' 
Then  these  feet  and  eyes  and  lips  should  be  pure  and  holy; 
and  I  should  be  dead  to  the  world,  and  live  for  heaven. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


HOLY  SPIRIT.  31^ 


If  it  be  heaven  toward  which  we  journey,  it  will  be  holiness 
in  which  we  delight ;  for  if  we  cannot  now  rejoice  in  having 
God  for  our  portion,  where  is  our  meetness  for  a  world  in 
which  God  is  to  be  all  in  all  forever  and  forever  ? 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


O,  for  a  voice  of  power  to  arouse  the  human  spirit  from  its 
death  in  life  of  animality,  to  quicken  it  with  a  fit  consciousness 
of  its  own  nature,  to  lift  it  to  an  adequate  comprehension  of 
the  purposes  for  which  the  sublime  thoughts  of  God,  of  duty, 
of  disinterested  love,  of  heaven  are  opened  within  ! 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


To  sanctify  God  is  to  reverence  Him  in  our  hearts,  and  to 
represent  Him  in  the  glory  of  His  holiness  before  men. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


Christ  came  to  give  us  a  justifying  righteousness,  and  He 
also  came  to  make  us  holy  —  not  chiefly  for  the  purpose  of  evi- 
dencing here  our  possession  of  a  justifying  righteousness  —  but 
for  the  purpose  of  forming  and  fitting  us  for  a  blessed  eternity. 

—  Chalmers. 


Carefully  purify  your  conscience  from  daily  faults ;  suffer 
no  sin  to  dwell  in  your  heart  ;  small  as  it  may  seem,  it  obscures 
the  light  of  grace,  weighs  down  the  soul,  and  hinders  that  con- 
stant communion  with  Jesus  Christ  which  it  should  be  your 
pleasure  to  cultivate. 

—  Fenelon, 


HOLY  SPIRIT. 
All  that  is  divine  in  man  comes  from  God.     All  that  tends 
toward  God  in  man  is  God's  voice  in  the  human  heart. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


318  HOLY  SPIRIT. 


Life,  if  we  would  mark  it,  is  made  up  of  thousands  of  sugges- 
tions from  some  unseen  quarter,  prompting  us  to  duty  ;  starting 
some  thought  of  what  is  wise  and  right  and  just  and  good  ;  in- 
clining us  to  thoughtfulness,  to  meditation,  to  prayer ;  making 
the  soul  dissatisfied  with  its  present  course,  and  drawing  it  along 
in  the  path  of  duty,  benevolence,  and  peace. 

—  Albert   Barnes. 


The  work  of  the  Spirit  is  to  impart  life,  to  implant  hope,  to 
give  liberty,  to  testify  of  Christ,  to  guide  us  into  all  truth,  to 
teach  us  all  things,  to  comfort  the  believer,  and  to  convict  the 
world  of  sin. 

—  D.  L.  Moody.- 


The  Bible  is  like  a  Avide  and  beautiful  landscape  seen  afar  off, 
dim  and  confused  ;  but  a  good  telescope  will  bring  it  near,  and 
spread  out  all  its  rocks  and  trees  and  flowers  and  verdant  fields 
and  winding  rivers  at  one's  very  feet.  That  telescope  is  the 
Spirit's  teaching. 

—  Chalmers. 


The  grandest  operations,  both  in  nature  and  in  grace,  are  the 
most  silent  and  imperceptible.  The  shallow  brook  babbles  on 
its  passage,  and  is  heard  by  every  one  ;  but  the  coming  on  of 
the  seasons  is  silent  and  unseen.  The  storm  rages  and  alarms ; 
but  its  fury  is  soon  exhausted,  and  its  effects  are  partial  and 
soon  remedied  ;  but  the  dew,  though  gentle  and  unheard,  is  im- 
mense in  quantity,  and  the  very  life  of  large  portions  of  the 
earth.  And  these  are  pictures  of  the  operations  of  grace  in  the 
church  and  in  the  soul. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


A  religion  without  the  Holy  Ghost,  though  it  had  all  the  ordi- 
nances and  all  the  doctrines  of  the  New  Testament,  would  cer- 
tainly not  be  Christianity. 

—  William  Arthur. 


HOLY  SPIRIT. 


Without  the  soul  divinely  quickened  and  inspired,  the  ob- 
■servances  of  the  grandest  ritualism  are  as  worthless  as  the  mo- 
tions of  a  galvanized  corpse. 


I  firmly  believe  that  the  moment  our  hearts  are  emptied  of 
pride  and  selfishness  and  ambition  and  self-seeking  and  every 
thing  that  is  contrary  to  God's  law,  the  Holy  Ghost  will  come 
and  fill  every  corner  of  our  hearts  ;  but  if  we  are  full  of  pride 
and  conceit  and  ambition  and  self-seeking  and  pleasure  and  the 
world,  there  is  no  room  for  the  Spirit  of  God  ;  and  I  believe 
many  a  man  is  praying  to  God  to  fill  him  when  he  is  full  already 
with  something  else. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


As  the  blood  of  Christ  is  the  fountain  of  all  merit,  so  the 
Spirit  is  the  fountain  of  all  spiritual  life  ;  and  until  He  quickens 
us,  imparts  the  principle  of  divine  life  to  our  souls,  we  can 
put  forth  no  vital  act  of  faith  to  lay  hold  upon  Jesus  Christ. 

—  John  Flavel. 


We  are  not  saved  on  account  of  the  Holy  Ghost's  work  in  us  ; 
we  are  saved  by  ?neans  of  it.  We  are  saved  on  account  of 
Christ's  work  for  us.  The  Spirit  never  tells  us  to  look  inward 
even  to  His  own  operations,  for  peace,  but  outivard  to  Christ. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


There  is  no  reason  to  believe  that  the  Holy  Spirit  ever  leaves 
awakened  sinners,  only  as  they  leave  the  truth  of  God  for  some 
error  or  sin. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Resist  is  the  word  applied  to  the  unconverted.  Grieve  is  that 
applied  to  the  individual  Christian.  Quench  is  that  which  has 
reference  to  the  saints  when  gathered  together  waiting  on  the 
Spirit. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


320  HOLY  SPIRIT. 


Culture  is  good,  genius  is  brilliant,  civilization  is  a  blessing, 

education  is  a  great  privilege  ;  but  we  may  be  educated  villains. 

The  thing  that  we  want  most  of  all  is  the  precious  gift  of  the 

Holy  Ghosto 

—  John  Hall. 


A  man  may  as  well  hew  marble  without  tools,  or  paint  with- 
out colors  or  instruments,  or  build  without  materials,  as  perform 
any  acceptable  service  without  the  graces  of  the  Spirit,  which  are 
both  the  materials  and  instruments  in  the  work. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


After  regeneration  the  Spirit  works  upon  a   complying  and 

willing  mind  —  we  work,  and  He  assists.   It  is  therefore  an  error 

that  sanctified   persons  are  not   bound  to   strive  in  the  way  of 

duty  without  a  sensible  impulse  of  the  Spirit. 

—  John  Flavel. 


"  I  have  come  a  hundred  miles,"  said  a  minister,  "  to  get  some 
of  Mr.  Moody's  spirit."  "You  don't  want  my  spirit,"  was  the 
reply.     "What  you  want  is  the  Spirit  of  God." 


Make  us  eternal  truths  receive, 
And  practice  all  that  we  believe  ; 
Give  us  Thyself  that  we  may  see 
The  Father  and  the  Son  by  Thee. 

—  Charlemagne. 


The  believing  man  hath  the  Holy  Ghost ;  and  where  the  Holy 
Ghost  dwelleth.  He  will  not  suffer  a  man  to  be  idle,  but  stirreth 
him  up  to  all  exercises  of  piety  and  godliness,  and  of  true  re- 
ligion, to  the  love  of  God,  to  the  patient  suffering  of  afflictions, 
to  prayer,  to  thanksgiving,  and  the  exercise  of  charity  towards 

all  men. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


HOLY  SPIRIT.  321 


No  enumeration  of  the  fruits  of  the  Spirit  will  be  found  which 
excludes  peace  and  joy,  much  less  love  ;  and  from  these  graces, 
if,  indeed,  not  from  the  last  alone,  spring  the  various  fruits 
which  unitedly  constitute  righteousness. 

—  William  Arthur. 


When  the  blessed  Spirit,  that  bloweth  where  it  listeth,  visits 
you  and  stirs  the  plumage  of  the  soul,  seek  no  cowardly  shelter 
from  it,  but  fling  yourself  upon  it,  and,  though  its  sweep  be  awful, 
you  shall  be  sustained.  Only  do  this,  do  all,  not  in  presumpt- 
uous daring,  but  in  divine  submission  ;  in  dependence,  not  on 
any  strength  that  can  be  spent,  but  on  the  ever-living  stay  of 
all  that  trust  in  Him. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Whatever  the  Holy  Spirit  prompts  a  true  Christian  to  do  for 
the  glory  of  God,  He  allures  him  to  do  in  a  modest  way,  and 
with  a  disposition  of  indescribable  tenderness. 

—  C.  S.  Robinson. 


You  will  find  that  for  a  smoking  flax  there  is  no  specific  like 
heaven's  oxygen ;  for  a  faint  and  flickering  piety  there  is  nO' 
cure  comparable  to  the  one  without  which  all  our  own  exer- 
tions are  but  an  effort  to  light  a  lamp  in  a  vacuum  —  the  breath 
of  the  Holy  Spirit, 

—  James  Hamilton. 

Religion  has  never,  in  any  period,  sustained  itself  except  by 
the  instrumentality  of  the  tongue  of  fire.  Only  where  some 
men,  more  or  less  imbued  with  this  primitive  power,  have 
spoken  the  words  of  the  Lord,  not  with  ''  the  words  which 
man's  wisdom  teacheth,  but  which  the  Holy  Ghost  teacheth," 
have  sinners  been  converted,  and  saints  prompted  to  a  saintlier 

life. 

—  William  Arthur. 


323  HOLY  SPIRIT. 


Consciously,  distinctly,  resolutely,  habitually,  we  need  to 
give  ourselves,  our  business,  our  interests,  our  families,  our 
affections,  into  the  Spirit's  hands,  to  lead  and  fashion  us  as  He 
will.  When  we  work  with  the  current  of  that  Divine  will,  all 
is  vital,  efficient,  fruitful. 

—  F.  D.  Huntington. 


Thousands  of  pulpit  orators  have  swayed  their  audiences  as 

a  wind  sways  standing  corn  ;  but  in  the  result,  those  who  were 

most  affected  differed  nothing  from  their  former  selves.     An 

effect  of  eloquence  is  sufficient  to  account  for  a  vast  amount  of 

feeling  at  the  moment ;  but  to  trace  to  this  a  moral  power,  by 

which  a  man,  for  his    lifelong,   overcomes   his  besetting -sins, 

and  adorns  his  name  with  Christian  virtues,  is  to  make  sport  of 

human  nature. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Every  accessory,  every  instrument  of  usefulness,  the  church 
has  now  in  such  a  degree  and  of  such  excellence  as  was  never 
known  in  any  other  age ;  and  we  want  but  a  supreme  and  glori- 
ous baptism  of  fire  to  exhibit  to  the  world  such  a  spectacle  as 
would  raise  ten  thousand  hallelujahs  to  the  glory  of  our  King. 

—  William  Arthur. 


On  the  day  of  Pentecost  Christianity  faced  the  world,  a  new 
religion,  without  a  history,  without  a  priesthood,  without  a  col- 
lege, without  a  people,  and  without  a  patron.  She  had  only 
her  two  sacraments  and  her  tongue  of  fire.  The  latter  was 
her  sole  instrument  of  aggression. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Baptize  the  nations  !  far  and  nigh. 
The  triumphs  of  the  cross  record 

The  name  of  Jesus  glorify. 

Till  every  people  call  Him  Lord. 

Montgomery. 


HOME.  323 

Return,  O  Power  of  the  Pentecost,  return  to  Thy  people  ! 

Shed  down  Thy  flame   on   many  heads  !     To  us,  as    to    our 

fathers  and  to  those  of  the  old  time  before  them,  give  fullness 

of  grace  !     Without  Thee  we  can  do  nothing  ;  but  filled  with 

the  Holy  Ghost,  the  excellency  of  the  power  will  be  of  Thee, 

O  God  !  and  not  of  us. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Come,  then,  with  what  voice  Thou  wilt  come,  Thou  power- 
clad  Messenger  of  my  Redeemer  !  Come  with  thunder  on  Thy 
tongue,  or  with  a  sweet  "  harp  of  ten  strings ;  "  come  to  us 
simple  as  a  little  child,  or  wise  as  a  scribe  instructed  of  God  ; 
but,  O  !  let  us  only  feel  that  fire  in  Thy  message  which  lies  not 
in  sentences  nor  in  tones,  but  in  a  heart   itself  inflamed  from 

above,  and  pouring  fire  into  our  hearts. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Oh,  now  to  all  mankind 
"  Let  there  be  light  !" 


HOME. 

A  happy  home  is  the  single  spot  of  rest  which  a  man  has  upon 
this  earth  for  the  cultivation  of  his  noblest  sensibilities. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  is  no   happiness  in  life,  there  is  no  misery  like  that 

growing  out  of  the  dispositions  which  consecrate  or  desecrate  a 

home. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


When  home  is  ruled  according  to  God's  word,  angels  might 
be  asked  to  stay  a  night  with  us,  and  they  would  not  find  them- 
selves out  of  their  element. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


324  HOME. 

In  the  homes  of  America  are  born  the  children  of  America  ; 

and  from  them  go  out   into  American  life,  American  men  and 

women.   They  go  out  with  the  stamp  of  these  homes  upon  them  ; 

and  only  as  these  homes  are  what  they  should  be,  will  they  be 

what  they  should  be. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


The  strength  of  a  nation,  especially  of  a  republican  nation,  is 
in  the  intelligent  and  well-ordered  homes  of  the  people. 

—  Mrs.  Sigourney. 


A  Christian  home  !  What  a  power  it  is  to  the  child  when  he 
is  far  away  in  the  cold,  tempting  world,  and  voices  of  sin  are 
filling  his  ears,  and  his  feet  stand  on  slippery  places. 

A.   E.  KiTTREDGE. 


The  spirit  and  tone  of  your  home  will  have  great  influence  on 
your  children.  If  it  is  what  it  ought  to  be,  it  will  fasten  convic- 
tion on  their  minds,  however  wicked  they  may  become. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


The  simple  pleasures  of  home  are  sweetest  and  last  longest. 
Happy  the  man  who  is  never  so  happy  as  when  he  opens  the 
Bible  to  read  and  pray  with  his  wife  and  children,  or  sits  at  his 
own  table,  the  chief  figure  in  the  eyes  of  those  who  surround 
him.  Happy,  we  say,  is  such  a  man,  if,  when  he  looks  into  the 
eyes  of  such  a  circle,  he  forgets  himself  in  his  love  for  them. 
The  church  life  of  such  a  family  is  really  a  part  of  its  home  life. 

—  The  Christian  Advocate. 


Woe  be  to  that  house  on  whose  altar  the  fire  of  love  has  gone 
out !  Woe  be  to  those  who  have  no  longer  the  sweet  perfume  of 
burning  incense,  but  only  a  stench  from  the  remains  of  the  vic- 
tim heart  that  has  been  consumed. 

—  The  Christian  Union. 


HOxME.  325 

The  pleasant  converse  of  the  fireside,  the  simple  songs  of 
home,  the  words  of  encouragement  as  I  bend  over  my  school- 
tasks,  the  kiss  as  I  lie  down  to  rest,  the  patient  bearing  with  the 
freaks  of  my  restless  nature,  the  gentle  counsels  mingled  with  re- 
proofs and  approvals,  the  sympathy  that  meets  and  assuages 
every  sorrow,  and  sweetens  every  little  success  —  all  these  re- 
turn to  me  amid  the  responsibilities  which  press  upon  me  now, 
and  I  feel  as  if  I  had  once  lived  in  heaven,  and,  straying,  had 
lost  my  way. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


I  never  heard  my  father's  or  mother's  voice  once  raised  in 
any  question  with  each  other  ;  nor  saw  any  angry  or  even 
slightly  hurt  or  offended  glance  in  the  eyes  of  either.  I  never 
heard  a  servant  scolded,  nor  evfen  suddenly,  passionately,  or  in 
any  severe  manner,  blamed  ;  and  I  never  saw  a  moment's  trouble 
or  disorder  in  any  household  matter. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


It  is  to  Jesus  Christ  we  owe  the  truth,  the  tenderness,  the 
purity,  the  warm  affection,  the  holy  aspiration,  which  go  to- 
gether in  that  endearing  word  —  home  ;  for  it  is  He  who  has 
made  obedience  so  beautiful,  and  affection  so  holy  ;  it  is  He 
who  has  brought  the  Father's  home  so  near,  and  has  taught  us 
that  love  is  of  God. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  sweetest  type  of  heaven  is  home  —  nay,  heaven  is  the 
home  for  whose  acquisition  we  are  to  strive  the  most  strongly. 
Home,  in  one  form  and  another,  is  the  great  object  of  life.  It 
stands  at  the  end  of  every  day's  labor,  and  beckons  us  to  its 
bosom  ;  and  life  would  be  cheerless  and  meaningless,  did  we 
not  discern  across  the  river  that  divides  us  from  the  life  beyond, 
glimpses  of  the  pleasant  mansions  prepared  for  us. 

—  J.  G.   Holland. 


326  HOME. 

The  home  came  from  heaven.  Modeled  on  the  Father's 
house  and  the  many  mansions,  and  meant  the  one  to  be  a  train- 
ing place  for  the  other,  the  home  is  one  of  the  gifts  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  —  a  special  creation  of  Christianity. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Home  and  heaven  are  not  so  far  separated  as  we  sometimes 
think.  Nay,  they  are  not  separated  at  all,  for  they  are  both  in 
the  same  great  building.  Home  is  the  lower  story,  and  is  located 
down  here  on  the  ground  floor  ;  heaven  is  above  stairs,  in  the 
second  and  third  stories ;  and,  as  one  after  another  the  family 
is  called  to  come  up  higher,  that  which  seemed  to  be  such  a 
strange  place  begins  to  wear  a  familiar  aspect  ;  and,  when  at  last 
not  one  is  left  below,  the  home  is  transferred  to  heaven,  and 
heaven  is  home. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


Keep  the  home  near  heaven.    Let  it  face  toward  the  Father's 

house.      Not  only  let  the  day  begin   and  end  with  God,  with 

mercies  acknowledged  and  forgiveness  sought,  but  let  it  be  seen 

and  felt  that  God  is  your  chiefest  joy,  His  will  in  all  you  do  the 

absolute  and  sufficient  reason. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


It  was  Jesus  Christ  who,  ever  pointing  to  joys  which  do  not 
perish  in  the  using,  wedded  duty  to  delight,  and  re-opening  to 
the  Christian  family  a  better  paradise  —  the  Father's  house  — 
placed  the  earthly  home  in  the  vestibule  of  heaven. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  ascension  of  Christ  makes  heaven  seem  homelike  to  us 
as  we  journey  toward  it ;  for  Jesus  wears  our  humanity  at  the 
right  hand  of  the  Father. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


HOPE.  327 

Home  and  Jesus  !  The  two  should  be  inseparable.  Husband 
and  wife  need  the  clasp  of  that  infinite  love  to  keep  their  hearts 
true  to  each  other.  Parents  need  the  guidance  of  that  infinite 
wisdom  and  the  power  of  that  infinite  strength,  to  keep  them 
patient  and  long-suffering  and  gentle  and  wise  in  the  training 
of  immortal  souls. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


How  rich  this  earth  seems  when  we  regard  it  —  crowded  with 
the  loves  of  home  !  Yet  I  am  now  getting  ready  to  go  Jiome  — 
to  leave  this  world  of  homes  and  go  home.  When  I  reach  that 
home,  shall  I  even  then  seek  yet  to  go  home .''  Even  then,  I  be- 
lieve, I  shall  seek  a  yet  warmer,  deeper,  truer  home  in  the 
deeper  knowledge  of  God  —  in  the  truer  love  of  my  fellow  men. 
Eternity  will  be  —  my  heart  and  my  faith  tell  me  —  a  traveling 
homeward,  but  in  jubilation  and  confidence  and  the  vision  of 
the  beloved. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Then  I  said  in  my  heart,  "  Come  home  with  me,  beloved  — 
there  is  but  one  home  for  us  all.  When  we  find  —  in  proportion 
as  each  of  us  finds  that  home,  shall  we  be  gardens  of  delight 
to  each  other  —  little  chambers  of  rest  —  galleries  of  pictures 
—  wells  of  water," 

—  George  MacDonald. 


HOPE. 

Hope  proves  man  deathless.  It  is  the  struggle  of  the  soul, 
breaking  loose  from  what  is  perishable,  and  attesting  her  eter- 
nity. 

—  Henry  Melvill, 


If  thy  hope  be  any  thing  worth,  it  will  purify  thee  from  thy 
sins, 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


328  HUMILITY. 


As  the  days  of  spring  arouse  all  nature  to  a  green  and  grow- 
ing vitality,  so  when  hope  enters  the  soul  it  makes  all  things 
new.  It  insures  the  progress  which  it  predicts.  Rooted  in 
faith,  growing  up  into  love ;  these  make  the  three  immortal 
graces  of  the  gospel,  whose  intertwined  arms  and  concurrent 
voices  shed  joy  and  peace  over  our  human  life. 

—  T.  F.  Clarke. 


Let  the  sweet  hope  that  Thou  art  mine, 

My  life  and  death  attend; 
Thy  presence  through  my  journey  shine, 

And  crown  my  journey's  end. 

—  Anne  Steele. 


With  a  mind  not  diseased,  a  holy  life  is  a  life  of  hope  ;  and  at 
the  end  of  it,  death  is  a  great  act  of  hope. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Hope  humbly  then;  with  trembling  pinions  soar; 
Wait  the  great  teacher.  Death,  and  God  adore; 
What  future  bliss  He  gives  not  thee  to  know, 
But  gives  that  hope  to  be  thy  blessing  now. 

—  Pope. 


Daughter  of  Faith,  awake,  arise,  illume 
The  dread  unknown,  the  chaos  of  the  tomb. 

—  Thomas  Campbell. 


I  thought  that  the  light-house  looked  lovely  as  hope. 
That  star  on  life's  tremulous  ocean. 

—  T.  Moore. 


HUMILITY. 

Humility,  that  low,  sweet  root, 

From  which  all  heavenly  virtues  shoot. 


—  T.  Moore. 


HUMILITY.  329 


True  humility  is  a  Christian  grace  and  one  of  the  fruits  of 
the  Spirit,  originating  in  a  deep  consciousness  of  sin  past  and 
present,  and  leading  us  to  discover  our  nothingness  in  the  view 
of  God,  our  insufficiency  for  any  thing  that  is  good,  and 
prompting  us,  as  we  feel  our  infirmities,  to  strive  after  higher 
and  yet  higher  attainments. 

—  James  McCosh. 

Humility  is  the  root,  mother,  nurse,  foundation,  and  bond  of 
all  virtue. 

—  Chrysostom. 


They  that  know  God  will  be  humble,  they  that  know  them- 
selves cannot  be  proud. 

—  John  Flavel. 

Be  sure  that  your  soul  is  never  so  intensely  alive  as  when  in 
the  deepest  abnegation  it  waits  hushed  before  God. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Teach  me,  Lord,  my  true  condition; 

Bring  me  childlike  to  Thy  knee; 
Stripped  of  every  low  ambition. 

Willing  to  be  led  by  Thee. 

—  H.  F.  Lyte. 


Humility  is,    of  all   graces,  the  chiefest  when   it  does    not 
know  itself  to  be  a  grace  at  all. 

—  St.  Bernard. 


The  more  we  learn  what  humility  is,  the  less  we  discover  in 
ourselves. 

—  La  Combe. 


Light-houses  don't  ring  bells  and  fire  cannon  to  call  atten- 
tion to  their  shining;  they  just  shine  on. 


330  HUMILITY. 


Humility  is  that  simple,  inner  life  of  real  greatness,  which  is 
indifferent  to  magnificence,  and,  surrounded  by  it  all,  lives  far 
away  in  the  distant  country  of  a  Father's  home,  with  the  cross 
borne  silently  and  self-sacrificingly  in  the  heart  of  hearts. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


I  believe  the  first  test  of  a  truly  great  man  is  his  humility. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Do  you  wish  to  be  great  ?  Then  begin  by  being  little.  Do 
you  desire  to  construct  a  vast  and  lofty  fabric  ?  Think  first 
about  the  foundations  of  humility.  The  higher  your  structure 
is  to  be,  the  deeper  must  be  its  foundation.     Modest  humility 

is  beauty's  crown. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Heaven's  gates  are  not  so   highly  arched  as  king's  palaces; 
they  that  enter  there  must  go  upon  their  knees. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


"  He  that  humbleth  himself  shall  be  exalted."  This  great 
law  of  the  kingdom  of  God  is,  in  the  teaching  of  Christ,  in- 
scribed over  its  entrance-gate. 

—  Thomas  Browne. 


They  who  know  most  of  God  on  earth  or  heaven  know  that 
they  know  little  after  all  ;  but  they  know  that  they  may  know 
more  and  more  of  Him  throughout  eternal  ages. 

—  James  McCosh. 


Humility  is  the  grace    which  lies  prostrate  at  God's  foot- 
stool, self-abasing  and  self-disparaging,  amazed  at  God's  mercy, 

and  abhorring  its  own  vileness, 

—  James  Hamilton. 


HUMILITY.  331 


Humility,  what  is  it  ?  It  is  a  gracious  gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
It  is  the  same  disposition  which  the  Psalmist  called  a  "  broken 
heart,"  and  that  consciousness  of  need  which  Jesus  had  in 
view  when  He  said,  "Blessed  are  the  poor  in  spirit."  So  far 
as  it  has  respect  to  God,  it  is  that  docility  which  is  willing  to 
learn  what  God  teaches  ;  that  conscious  penury,  which  is  will- 
ing to  accept  whatever  God  proffers;  that  submission  which  is 
willing  to  do  what  God  desires,  and  to  endure  whatever  God 
deems  needful. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


And  so   among  the  ruins  of  our  pride,  we  grow  to  be  loving 
children  of  the  Most  High. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


I  want  to  feel  my  own  nothingness,  I  want  to  give  myself  up 
in  absolute  resignation  to  God,  to  lie  prostrate  and  passive  at 
His  feet,  with  no  other  disposition  in  my  heart  than  that  of 
merging  my  will  into  His  will,  and  no  other  language  in  my 
mouth  than  that  of  prayer  for  the  perfecting  of  His  strength  in 
my  weakness.  I  desire  from  the  abyss  of  my  own  nothingness 
and  vileness  to  cry  unto  God  that  He  might  cause  me  to  do  as 
I  ought,  and  to  be  as  I  ought, 

—  Chalmers. 


Confess  your  nothingness  and  ill-desert  before  God.  Distrust 
yourself.  Rely  only  upon  God.  Renounce  all  glory  except 
from  Him.  Yield  yourself  heartily  to  His  will  and  service. 
Avoid  an  aspiring,  ambitious,  ostentatious,  assuming,  arrogant, 
scornful,  stubborn,  willful,  levelling,  self-justifying  behavior;  and 
strive  for  more  and  more  of  the  humble  spirit  that  Christ  mani- 
fested while  He  was  here  upon  earth. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


But  God  forbid  that  I  should  glory,  save  in  the  cross  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 


332  HUMILITY. 


Abraham  teaches  us  the   right  way  of  conversing  with  God  : 

"And    Abraham    fell  on  his   face,  and  God  talked  with  him." 

When  we  plead  with  Him,  our  faces  should  be  in  the  dust. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


When  thinking  of  God,  when  beholding  His  glorious  perfec- 
tions, when  rejoicing  in  the  perfection  of  His  government,  and 
in  the  excellence  of  His  designs,  the  humble  heart  adopts  the 
language  of  Job  :  "  I  have  heard  of  Thee  by  the  hearing  of  the 
ear  ;  but  now  mine  eye  seeth  Thee  :  wherefore  I  abhor  myself, 

and  repent  in  dust  and  ashes." 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


"  O  pity,  great  Father  of  light,"  then  I  cried, 

"  Thy  creature  who  fain  would  not  wander  from  Thee  ! 

Lo,  humbled  in  dust,  I  relinquish  my  pride ; 

From  doubt  and  from  darkness  Thou  only  canst  free. " 

—  Jainies  Beattie. 


Not  as  men  of  science,  not  as  critics,  not  as  philosophers,  but 
as  little  children,  shall  we  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


I  do  not  know  what  I  may  appear  to  the  world ;  but  to  my- 
self I  seem  to  have  been  only  like  a  boy  playing  on  the  sea- 
shore, and  diverting  myself  by  now  and  then  finding  a  smooth 
pebble  or  a  prettier  shell  than   ordinary,  while  the   great  ocean 

of  truth  lay  all  undiscovered  before  me. 

—  Sir  Isaac  Newton. 


O  it  is  a  happy  thing  to  feel  ourselves  helpless  and  naught,  for 

then  the  presence  of  God  is  felt  to  wrap  us  about  so  lovingly  ! 

Everlasting,     infinite,    almighty,  —  these   are    the    words    that 

strengthen  us  with  speaking  them. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


HUMILITY.  333 


Of  all  trees,  I  observe  God  hath  chosen  the  vine,  a  low  plant 
that  creeps  upon  the  helpful  wall ;  of  all  beasts,  the  soft  and 
patient  lamb  ;  of  all  fowls,  the  mild  and  guileless  dove.  Christ 
is  the  rose  of  the  field,  and  the  lily  of  the  valley.  When  God 
appeared  to  Moses,  it  was  not  in  the  lofty  cedar  nor  the  sturdy 
oak  nor  the  spreading  palm ;  but  in  a  bush,  a  humble,  slender, 
abject  shrub  ;  as  if  He  would,  by  these  elections,  check  the  con- 
ceited arrogance  of  man. 

—  Owen  Feltham. 


The  wisely  cultivated  man,  conscious  how  insignificant  a  drop 

he  is  in  the  vast  stream  of  life,  learns  his  limitation,  and  accepts 

events  with  modesty  and  equanimity. 

—  Dr.  Maudsley. 


I  pray  often  to  God  that  He  would  keep  you  in  the  hollow  of 
His  hand.  The  most  essential  point  is  lowliness.  It  is  profit- 
able for  all  things,  for  it  produces  a  teachable  spirit  which  makes 

every  thing  easy. 

—  Fenelon. 


Now  as  they  were  going  along  and  talking,  they  espied  a  boy 
feeding  his  father's  sheep.  The  boy  was  in  very  mean  clothes, 
but  of  a  fresh  and  well  favored  countenance  ;  and  as  he  sat  by 
himself  he  sang  : 

"  He  that  is  down,  needs  fear  no  fall  ; 

He  that  is  low,  no  pride  ; 
He  that  is  humble  ever  shall 
Have  God  to  be  his  guide." 
Then  said  Mr.  Great  Heart,  "  Do  you  hear  him  ?   I  will  dare  to 
say  this  boy  lives  a  merrier  life,  and  wears  more  of  that  herb 
called  heart's-ease  in  his  bosom  than  he  that  is  clad  in  silk  and 
velvet." 

—  John  Bunyan. 


334  HUMILITY. 


Then  Christian  began  to  go  forward  ;  but  Discretion,  Piety, 
Charity,  and  Prudence  would  accompany  him  down  to  the  foot 
of  the  hill.  Then  said  Christian,  "  As  it  was  difficult  coming 
up,  so,  so  far  as  I  can  see,  it  is  dangerous  going  down."  "  Yes," 
said  Prudence,  "so  it  is  ;  for  it  is  a  hard  matter  for  a  man  to 
go  down  into  the  valley  of  Humiliation,  as  thou  art  now,  and  to 
catch  no  slip  by  the  way;"  "  therefore,"  said  they,  "  we  are 
come  out  to  accompany  thee  down  the  hill."  So  he  began  to 
go  down,  but  very  warily  ;  yet  he  caught  a  slip  or  two. 

—  John  Bunyan. 

My  God,  I  ask  not  of  Thee  the  leaves  of  external  conse- 
quence ;  I  will  be  content  to  continue  simple,  lowly,  and  plain, 
if  Thou  wilt  only  give  me  grace  to  serve  Thee  and  my  neigh- 
bor.     Outward  pomp  withers  like  a  flower,  but  inward  worth 

lasts  even  after  death. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Let  me  follow  in  Thy  footsteps,  O  Jesus  !  I  would  imitate 
Thee,  but  cannot  without  the  aid  of  Thy  grace  !  O  humble  and 
lowly  Saviour,  grant  me  the  knowledge  of  the  true  Christian, 
and  that  I  may  willingly  despise  myself ;  let  me  learn  the  lesson 
so  incomprehensible  to  the  mind  of  man,  that  I  must  die  to 
myself  by  an  abandonment  that  shall  produce  true  humility. 

—  Fenelon, 


The  doctrines  of  grace  humble  man  without  degrading  him, 
and  exalt  him  without  inflating  him. 

—  Charles  Hodge. 


Make  me  like  a  little  child, 

Simple,  teachable,  and  mild  ; 

Seeing  only  in  Thy  light; 

Walking  only  in  Thy  might ! 

—  John  Berridge. 


HYPOCRISY.  335 


The  reason  why  the  publican  returned  from  the  Temple  jus- 
tified was  that  he  had  got  that  lowly  and  self-emptied  mind  to 
which  the  grace  of  God  is  welcome.  It  was  not  his  standing  afar 
off  merely,  nor  his  dejected  eyes,  nor  his  smiting  on  his  breast, 
but  his  despair  of  himself  and  his  hope  in  God's  mercy  —  "  God 
be  merciful  to  me  a  sinner."  And  you  will  be  justified,  too, 
when,  losing  all  confidence  in  the  flesh,  you  learn  to  rejoice  in 
Jesus  Christ. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  most  of  my  sufferings  and  sorrows  were  occasioned  by 
my  own  unwillingness  to  be  nothing,  which  I  am,  and  by  strug- 
gling to  be  something. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


HYPOCRISY. 


Hypocrisy  is  the  necessary  burden  of  villainy  ;  affectation, 
part  of  the  chosen  trappings  of  folly  !  the  one  completes  a  vil- 
lain, the  other  only  finishes  a  fop.  Contempt  is  the  proper 
punishment  of  affectation,  and  detestation  the  just  consequence 
of  hypocrisy. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


When  you  see  a  man  with  a  great  deal  of  religion  displayed 
in  his  shop  window,  you  may  depend  upon  it  he  keeps  a  very 
small  stock  of  it  within. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


In  sermon  style  he  bought. 
And  sold,  and  lied  ;  and  salutations  made 
In  Scripture  terms.     He  prayed  by  quantity. 
And  with  his  repetitions  long  and  loud. 

All  knees  were  weary. 

—  Pollock, 


336  IGNORANCE. 


Hypocrisy  is  a  sort  of  homage  that  vice  pays  to  virtue. 

—  Rochefoucauld. 

If  you  think  that  you  can  sin,  and  then  by  cries  avert  the  con- 
sequences of  sin,  you  insult  God's  character.' 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Men  turn  their  faces  to  hell,  and  hope  to  get  to  heaven;  why 
don't  they  walk  into  the  horsepond,  and  hope  to  be  dry  } 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Hypocrites  do  the  devil's  drudgery  in  Christ's  livery. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Woe  unto  thee  if  after  all  thy  profession  thou  shouldst  be 

found  under  the  power  of  ignorance,  lost  in  formality,  drowned 

in  earthly-mindedness,  envenomed  with  malice,  exalted  in  an 

opinion  of  thine  own  righteousness,  leavened  with  hypocrisy 

and  carnal  ends  in  God's  service. 

-    — Joseph  Alleine. 


No  man,  for  any  considerable  period,  can  wear  one  face  to 
himself  and  another  to  the  multitude,  without  finally  getting  be- 
wildered as  to  which  may  be  true. 

—  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 


I. 

IGNORANCE. 


He  that  voluntarily  continues  ignorant  is  guilty  of  all  the 

crimes  which  ignorance  produces. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


IMMORTALITY.  337 


Bring  your  ignorance  to  the   Holy  Spirit,  the  great  teacher, 
who  by  His  precious  truth  will  lead  you  into  all  truth. 

—  \V.  P.  Mackay. 


IMMORTALITY. 

Immortality  !  We  bow  before  the  very  term.  Immortality  ! 
Before  it  reason  staggers,  calculation  reclines  her  tired  head, 
and  imagination  folds  her  weary  pinions.  Immortality !  It 
throws  open  the  portals  of  the  vast  forever  ;  it  puts  the  crown 
of  deathless  destiny  upon  every  human  brow  ;  it  cries  to  every  ' 
uncrowned  king  of  men,  "  Live  forever,  crowned  for  the  empire 
of  a  deathless  destiny  !" 

—  George  Douglas. 

^    The  soul  secured  in  her  existence,  smiles 
At  the  drawn  dagger,  and  defies  its  point. 
The  stars  shall  fade  away,  the  sun  himself 
Grow  dim  with  age,  and  nature  sink  in  years. 
But  thou  shalt  flourish  in  immortal  youth, 
Unhurt  amidst  the  war  of  elements. 
The  wreck  of  matter,  and  the  crash  of  worlds. 

—  Addison, 


Earthly  providence  is  a  travesty  of  justice  on  any  other 
theory  than  that  it  is  a  preliminary  stage,  which  is  to  be  fol- 
lowed by  rectifications.  Either  there  must  be  a  future,  or  con- 
summate injustice  sits  upon  the  throne  of  the  universe.  This 
is  the  verdict  of  humanity  in  all  the  ages. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


Without  a  belief  in  personal  immortality,  religion  surely  is  like 
an  arch  resting  on  one  pillar,  like  a  bridge  ending  in  an  abyss. 

—  Max  MiJLLER. 

22 


IMMORTALITY. 


Whence  comes  the  powerful  impression  that  is  made  upon 
us  by  the  tomb  ?  Are  a  few  grains  of  dust  deserving  of  our 
veneration  ?  Certainly  not ;  we  respect  the  ashes  of  our  ances- 
tors for  this  reason  only  —  beca.use  a  secret  voice  whispers  to 
us  that  all  is  not  extinguished  in  them.  It  is  this  that  confers 
a  sacred  character  on  the  funeral  ceremony  among  all  the  na- 
tions of  the  globe;  all  are  alike  persuaded  that  the  sleep,  even 
of  the  tomb,  is  not  everlasting,  and  that  death  is  but  a  glorious 
transfiguration. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


See  truth,  love,  and  mercy  in  triumph  descending, 
And  nature  all  glowing  in  Eden's  first  bloom  ! 
On  the  cold  cheek  of  death  smiles  and  roses  are  blending, 
And  beauty  immortal  awakes  from  the  tomb. 

—  James  Beattie. 


Tell  me  why  the  caged  bird  flutters  against  its  prison  bars, 
and  I  will  tell  you  why  the  soul  sickens  of  earthliness.  The 
bird  has  wings,  and  wings  were  niade  to  cleave  the  air,  and 
soar  in  freedom  in  the  sun.  The  soul  is  immortal  —  it  cannot 
feed  upon  husks. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


I  feel  that  I  was  made  to  complete  things.  To  accomplish 
only  a  mass  of  beginnings  and  attempts  would  be  to  make  a 
total  failure  of  life.  Perfection  is  the  heritage  with  which  my 
Creator  has  endowed  me,  and  since  this  short  life  does  not  give 
completeness,  I  must  have  immortal  life  in  which  to  find  it. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


God  does  nothing  in  vain.  When  He  gives  a  power,  it  is  for 
a  purpose,  it  is  that  it  may  reach  an  end.  Now  what  I  argue  is 
this  :  Since  He  has  put  in  my  soul  a  germ  that  can  grow  to 
eternity,  He  means  that  it  shall  grow  to  eternity. 


IMPENITENT.  339 


It  is  our  souls  which  are  the  everlastingness  of  God's  purpose 

in  this  earth. 

—  VVm.  Mountford. 


May  we  be   satisfied  with   nothing   that  shall  not  have  in  it 

something  of  immortality. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 

Heaven  begun  is  the  living  proof  that  makes  the  heaven  to 
come  credible.  Christ  in  you  is  "the  hope  of  glory."  It  is 
the  eagle  eye  of  faith  which  penetrates  the  grave,  and  sees  far 
into  the  tranquil  things  of  death.  He  alone  can  believe  in  im- 
mortality who  feels  the  resurrection  in  him  already. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  nearer  I  approach  the   end,  the   plainer  I  hear  around 

me  the  immortal  symphonies  of  the  worlds  which  invite  me. 

It  is  marvelous,  yet  simple. 

—  Victor  Hugo. 


No  martyr  ever  went  the  way  of  duty,  and  felt  the  shadow 
of  death  upon  it.  The  shadow  of  death  is  darkest  in  the  val- 
ley, which  men  walk  in  easily,  and  is  never  felt  at  all  on  a  steep 
place,  like  Calvary.  Truth  is  everlasting,  and  so  is  every  lover 
of  it ;  and  so  he  feels  himself  almost  always. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Let  a  disciple  live  as  Christ  lived,  and  he  will  easily  believe 

in  living  again  as  Christ  does. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


IMPENITENT. 

It  is  not  sin  that  kills  the  soul,  but  impenitence. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


340  IMPENITENT. 


He  that  has  no  present  Christ  has  a  future,  dark,  chaotic, 
heaving  with  its  destructive  ocean  ;  and  over  it  there  goes  for- 
ever—  black-pinioned,  winging  its  soHtary  and  hopeless  flight, 
the  raven  of  his  anxious  thoughts,  and  finds  no  place  to  rest, 
and  comes  back  again  to  the  desolate  ark  with  its  foreboding 
croak  of  evil  in  the  present  and  evil  in  the  future. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Oh,  prodigal,  you  may  be  wandering  on  the  dark  mountains 
of  sin,  but  God  wants  you  to  come  home.  The  devil  has  been 
telling  you  lies  about  God  ;  you  think  He  will  not  receive  you 
back.  I  tell  you,  He  will  welcome  you  this  minute  if  you  will 
come.     Say,  "  I  will  arise  and  go  to  my  Father." 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


You  admit  there  is  a  God ;  yet  you  offer  Him  no  homage ; 
you  never  worship  Him.  You  admit  that  you  are  a  sinner  ; 
yet  you  exercise  no  repentance ;  you  make  no  effort  to  become 
holy;  you  make  no  use  of  the  means  to  secure  pardon,  and  to 
avoid  the  wrath  to  come.  You  admit  that  you  can  be  saved 
only  by  the  merits  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ ;  yet  you  are  not 
seeking  to  obtain  an  interest  in  His  blood.  You  profess  to  be- 
lieve that  there  is  a  heaven  ;  yet  you  are  making  no  efforts  to 
secure  it  ;  a  hell,  yet  you  make  no  efforts  to  avoid  it. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Ye  will  not  pray ;  ye  will  not  shun  temptation  ;  ye  will  not 
renounce  known  sin  ;  ye  will  not  fight  against  evil  habits ! 
Are  ye  stronger  than  God  ?  Can  ye  contend  with  the  Eternal 
One?  Have  ye  the  nerve  which  shall  not  tremble,  and  the  flesh 
which  shall  not  quiver,  and  the  soul  which  shall  not  quail, 
when  the  sheet  of  fire  is  round  the  globe,  and  thousand  times 
ten  thousand  angels  line  the  sky,  and  call  to  judgment  ? 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


IMPENITENT.  341 


We  pray  for  those  who  have  ceased  to  pray.  We  pray  for 
those  that  need  prayer  more  than  ever,  that  have  fewer  and 
fewer  seasons  even  of  thought,  that  grow  hard  with  years,  that 
are  less  and  less  troubled  by  sin,  and  that  are  more  and  more 
irreverent  of  religion.  We  pray  for  the  children  of  Christian 
parents  who  sometimes  weep  at  the  memory  of  father  and 
mother,  but  who  never  have  thought  of  God. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Staying  where  you  now  are,  you  must  perish  ;  coming  to 
Christ,  you  can  but  perish  ;  coming  to  Christ,  no  one  ever  did 
perish  ;  while  you  sit  still  and  starve,  there  is  bread  enough  and 
to  spare  in  your  Father's  house.      Will  you  return  ? 

—  Samuel  Iren^us  Prime. 

He  that   forgets  his  friend  is  ungrateful   to  him,  but  he  that 

forgets  the  Saviour  is  unmerciful  to  himself. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


x^mid  the  stirring  and  manifold  activities  of  the  age  in  which 
we  live,  to  be  neutral  in  the  strife  is  to  rank  with  the  enemies  of 
the  Saviour.  There  is  no  greater  foe  to  the  spread  of  His  cause 
in  the  world  than  the  placid  indifferentism  which  is  too  honor- 
able to  betray,  while  it  is  too  careless  or  too  cowardly  to  join 
Him.  —  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


There  is  a  test  point  about  you  somewhere.  Perhaps  it  is 
pride  ;  you  cannot  bear  an  affront ;  you  will  not  confess  a  fault. 
Perhaps  it  is  personal  vanity,  ready  to  sacrifice  every  thing  to 
display.  Perhaps  it  is  a  sharp  tongue.  Perhaps  it  is  some  sen- 
sual appetite,  bent  on  its  unclean  gratification.  Then  you  are 
to  gather  up  your  moral  forces  just  here,  and,  till  that  darling 
sin  is  brought  under  the  practical  law  of  Christ,  you   are  shut 

out  of  Christ's  kingdom. 

—  Bishop  Huntingtox. 


343  IMPENITENT. 


God  calls  you  —  alike  by  Scripture,  by  your  reason,  by  your 
conscience,  by  the  events  of  His  providence,  by  heavenly  influ- 
ences—  to  consecrate  all  you  have  to  His  service  and  the  good 
of  man;  Heaven  appeals  to  you,  and  the  world  appeals  to  you, 

not  to  live  in  vain. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Be  reconciled  to  God.  Distinctly  and  deliberately  devote 
yourself  to  His  service.  Lead  a  life  of  daily  devotion.  Re- 
nounce besetting  sins.      Make  the  Lord's  service  your  study. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


God  is  summoning  you.  Angels  are  summoning  you.  The 
myriads  who  have  gone  before  are  summoning  you.  We  are 
surrounded  by  a  "great  cloud  of  witnesses."  The  battlements 
of  the  sky  seem  thronged  with  those  who  have  fought  the  good 
fight  of  faith.  They  bend  down  from  the  eminence,  and  bid 
us  ascend,  through  the  one  Mediator,  to  the  same  lofty  dwell- 
ing. 

--  Henry  Melvill. 


Thirsty,  weary,  dissatisfied  in  this   sultry  life,  come  as  you 

are  ;   come  at  once  ;   come  because   you   are  invited  ;    as  you 

would   not  do  affront  to  infinite  Generosity,  come,  and  drink, 

and  live  forever. 

—  William  Adams. 


Time    flies,    death    urges,    knells    call,    heaven    invites,   hell 

threatens  ! 

—  Young. 


I  bring  you  to  the  dead  body  of  Christ.  I  ask  you  to  look 
at  the  wounds  in  His  hands  and  feet,  and  the  wound  in  His 
side.     And  I  ask  you,  "  Will  you  not  be  reconciled  ?  " 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


IMPENITENT.  343 


Go  to  Jesus,  O  sinner,  this  day,  this  moment,  with  all  thy 
sins  about  thee.  Go  just  as  thou  art,  for  if  thou  wilt  never  ap- 
ply to  Him  till  thou  art  first  righteous  and  holy,  thou  wilt  never 

be  righteous  and  holy  at  all. 

—  Philip  Doddridge. 


Ah,  sinner,  may  the  Lord  quicken  thee  !  But  it  is  a  work 
that  makes  the  Saviour  weep.  I  think  when  He  comes  to  call 
some  of  you  from  your  death  in  sin,  He  comes  weeping  and 
sighing  for  you.  There  is  a  stone  that  is  to  be  rolled  away  — 
your  bad  and  evil  habits  —  and  when  that  stone  is  taken  away,  a 
still  small  voice  will  not  do  for  you  ;  it  must  be  the  loud  crash- 
ing voice,  like  the  voice  of  the  Lord  which  breaketh  the  cedars 
of  Lebanon. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Sinner,  listen  now.     Christ  knocks  again.     Here,  in  the  hush 

of   this    still    hour.  He  waits  to    be    received  and  welcomed. 

Peace  like  a  river,  joy  such  as  angels  do  not  know,  hopeful  of 

an    ever-brightening  and  evermore   blessed   immortality  —  all 

heavenly  benedictions  would  be  thine  —  "if  thou  knewest  the 

gift  of  God." 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


There  the  patient  hand  still  knocketh, 
And  with  every  patient  watching, 
With  the  sad  eyes  true  and  tender, 
With  the  glory-crowned  hair, — 
Still  a  God  is  waiting  there. 

—  Mrs.  H.  B,  Stowe. 


It  is  a  very  solemn  thought  that  God  will  excuse  you  if  you 
want  to  be  excused.  He  does  not  wish  to  do  it,  but  He  %vill 
do  it. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


344  INDIFFERENCE  — INDOLENCE. 

A  brother  in  the  Lord  could  never  get  a  young  lady  to  think 
about  eternity  until  he  quoted  this  text :  "  The  wicked  shall 
be  turned  into  hell,  and  all  the  nations  that  forget  God." 
That  word  forget  seemed  to  haunt  her.  May  it  haunt  you, 
dear  reader. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


Let  no  time  be  spent  in  arguments.     I  believe  that  is  a  work 

of  the  devil,  to  take  off  attention,  and  cause  delay.     If  a  man 

comes  to  argue,  we   should  go  down  on  our  knees,  pray  with 

him,  and  then  let  him  go. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


INDIFFERENCE. 

There  are  few  signs  in  a  soul's  state  more  alarming  than  that 
of  religious  indifference,  that  is,  the  spirit  of  thinking  all  relig- 
ions equally  true  —  the  real  meaning  of  which  is,  that  all  relig- 
ions are  equally  false. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 

Indifference,  if  let  alone,  will  produce  obduracy  ;  and  ob- 
duracy, if  let  alone,  will  produce  torment. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


INDOLENCE. 
Indolence  is  the  worst  enemy  that  the  church  has  to  en- 
counter. Men  sleep  around  her  altar,  stretching  themselves  on 
beds  of  ease,  or  sit  idly  with  folded  hands  looking  lazily  out  on 
fields  white  for  the  harvest,  but  where  no  sickle  rings  against 
the  wheat. 

—  Bishop  Huntington. 


At  ease  in  a  world  in  which  my  Lord  was  such  a  sufferer ! 

—  Wm.  Mountford, 


INDOLENCE.  345 


The  passive  idler  of  all  men  in  the  world  is  the  most  diffi- 
cult to  please.  Those  who  do  the  least  themselves  are  always 
the  severest  critics  upon  the  noble  achievements  of  others. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


The  idle  man  is  the  devil's  cushion. 

—  Bishop  Hall 


If  you  are  idle,   you  are  on  the  road  to  ruin ;  and  there  are 

few  stopping  places  upon  it.     It  is  rather  a  precipice  than  a 

road. 

—  H.  W,  Beecher. 


Idleness  is  the  great  corrupter  of  youth,  and  the  bane  and 
dishonor  of  middle  age.  He  who,  in  the  prime  of  life,  finds 
time  to  hang  heavy  on  his  hands,  may  with  much  reason  sus- 
pect that  he  has  not  consulted  the  duties  which  the  considera- 
tion of  his  age  imposed  upon  him  ;  assuredly  he  has  not  con- 
sulted his  happiness. 

—  Blair. 


An  idle  man  has  a  constant  tendency  to  torpidity.  He  has 
adopted  the  Indian  maxim  —  that  it  is  better  to  walk  than  to 
run,  and  better  to  stand  than  to  walk,  and  better  to  sit  than  to 
stand,  and  better  to  lie  than  to  sit.  He  hugs  himself  into  the 
notion,  that  God  calls  him  to  be  quiet. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Some  temptations  come  to  the  industrious,  but  all  tempta- 
tions attack  the  idle. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Be  always  employed  about  some  rational  thing  that  the  devil 
find  thee  not  idle, 

—  St.  Jerome. 


346  INDUSTRY. 


A  good  many  people  are  complaining  all  the  time  about  them- 
selves, and  crying  out ,  "  My  leanness  !  my  leanness  !"  when 
they  ought  rather  to  say,  "  My  laziness !    my  laziness !" 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


I  am  not  the  only  one  that  condemns  the  idle  ;  for  once  when 

I  was  going  to  give  our  minister  a  pretty  long  list  of  the  sins  of 

one  of  our  people  that  he  was  asking  after,  I  began  with,  "  He's 

dreadfully  lazy."     "That's  enough,"  said  the   old  gentleman ; 

"  all  sorts  of  sins  are  in  that  one." 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  worst  idleness  is  that  of  the  heart.     Think  of  the  condi- 
tion and  prospects  of  a  voiceless,  thankless,  prayerless  heart. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


When  you  and  I  are  inclined  to  nestle  down  in  indolence  and 
self-indulgence,  God  "stirs  up  our  nests;"  and  bids  us  fly  up- 
ward. 

T.  L.   CuYLER. 


The  only  cure  for  indolence  is  work  ;  the  only  cure  for  self- 
ishness is  sacrifice  ;  the  only  cure  for  unbelief  is  to  shake  off  the 
ague  of  doubt,  by  doing  Christ's  bidding ;  the  only  cure  for 
timidity  is  to  plunge  into   some   dreaded  duty  before  the  chill 

comes  on. 

—  Rutherford. 


INDUSTRY. 


The  Lord's  visitations  of  distinguished  favor  are  always  to  the 
diligent.  That  great  men  may  not  be  ashamed  of  honest  voca- 
tions, the  greatest  that  have  ever  lived  have  been  contented, 
happy,  and  honored  while  in  the  pursuit  of  humble  trades. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


INFIDELITY.  347 


The  most  profitable  and  praiseworthy  genius  in  the  world  is 
untiring  industry. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Industry  doth  not  consist  merely  in  action  ;  for  that  is  inces- 
sant in  all  persons,  our  mind  being  a  restless  thing,  never  abid- 
ing in  a  total  cessation  from  thought  or  design  ,  being  like  a 
ship  in  the  sea,  if  not  steered  to  some  good  purpose  by  reason, 
yet  tossed  by  the  waves  of  fancy,  or  driven  by  the  winds  of 
temptation  somewhither.  But  the  direction  of  our  mind  to  some 
good  end,  without  roving  or  flinching,  in  a  straight  and  steady 
course,  drawing  after  it  our  active  powers  in  execution  thereof, 
doth  constitute  industry. 


The  gospel  does  not  abolish  industry,  but  changes  its  nature 
and  chief  design;  it  dignifies  toil,  mitigates  the  evils  connected 
therewith,  and  creates  new  motives  to  diligence.  The  triumph 
achieved  on  Calvary  never  was  designed  to  supersede  the  duty 
of  close  application  to  enterprising  duty.  Its  first  command 
compels  us  to  some  honorable  and  useful  pursuit.  Its  language 
is,"  Study  to  be  quiet,  and  to  do  your  own  business,  and  to  work 
with  your  own  hands  as  we  commanded  you."  "  If  any  man 
will  not  work,  neither  let  him  eat." 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


INFIDELITY. 


No  matter  where  the  skeptical  thought  originates,  or  how  it 
gets  access  to  our  minds,  we  see  at  once  that  it  flattens  the  level 
of  life  and  every  aspiration.  It  makes  our  character  less  vigor- 
ous. The  gospel  is  not  simply  a  philosophy  of  religion  or  law 
of  life,  but  it  is  an  apocalypse,  showing  the  heavens  to  our 
thought,  and  so  bringing  its  spiritual  benedictions  to  every  heart 
and  life. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


348  INFIDELITY. 


Admit  their  maxims,  and  the  universe  returns  to  a  frightful 
chaos ;  all  things  are  thrown  into  disorder  upon  the  earth ;  all 
the  notions  of  virtue  and  vice  are  overthrown  ;  the  most  invio- 
lable laws  of  society  are  abolished  ;  the  discipline  of  morality 
is  swept  away  ;  the  government  of  states  and  empires  ceases  to 
be  subject  to  any  rule ;  the  whole  harmony  of  political  institu- 
tions is  dissolved  ;  and  the  human  race  becomes  an  assemblage 
of  madmen,  barbarians,  cheats,  unnatural  wretches  who  have  no 
other  laws  but  force,  no  other  curb  than  their  passions  and  the 
dread  of  authority,  no  other  tie  than  irreligion  and  independ- 
ence, no  other  gods  than  themselves. 

—  Massillon. 


The  nurse  of  infidelity  is  sensuality.  Youth  are  sensual.  The 
Bible  stands  in  their  way.  It  prohibits  the  indulgence  of  the 
lust  of  the  flesh,  the  lust  of  the  eye,  and  the  pride  of  life. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


What  ardently  we  wish,  we  soon  believe. 

—  Young, 


There  is  not  a  single  spot  between  Christianity  and  atheism, 
upon  which  a  man  can  firmly  fix  his  foot. 

—  Emmons. 


There  is  one  single  fact  that  one  may  oppose  to  all  the  wit 
and  argument  of  infidelity ;  namely,  that  no  man  ever  repented 
of  being  a  Christian  on  his  death-bed. 

—  Hannah  More.    ■ 


The  infidelity  that  springs  from  the  heart  is  not  to  be  reached 
by  a  course  of  lectures  on  the  evidences  of  Christianity;  argu- 
ment did  not  cause,  and  argument  will  not  remove  it. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


The  fool  hath  said  in  his  heart.  There  is  no  God. 


INFIDELITY.  349 


There  never  yet  was  a  mother  who  taught  her  child  to  be  an 

infidel, 

—  Henry  W.  Shaw. 


O  Lord  God>  cleanse  us  from  the  infidelity  of  our  every-day 
life,  and  bring  us  into  the  spirit  of  Jesus,  that  love  may  reign 
triumphant  in  us.  and  that  we  may  glorify  our  Father  in  heaven. 


Is  it  for  the  cultivated  man,  the  man  of  broad  and  general 
views,  to  throw  himself  without  reserve  and  with  all  his  weight, 
into  what,  for  aught  he  yet  knows,  may  be  only  a  cross-current 
and  eddy,  instead  of  the  main  stream  of  truth  ? 

—  Prof.  Shedd. 


I  know  not  any  crime  so  great  that  a  man  could  contrive  to 
commit  as  poisoning  the  sources  of  eternal  truth. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


Freethinkers  are  generally  those  that  never  think  at  all. 

—  Laurence  Sterne. 

Reason  is  the  test  of  ridicule,  not  ridicule  the  test  of  truth. 

—  Warburton. 


When  you  see  a  mad  dog,  don't   argue  with  him  unless  you 

are  sure  of  your  logic. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


In  my  judgment,  a  great  mistake  has  been  made  by  well- 
meaning  and  zealous  men,  through  treating  error  and  infidelity 
with  altogether  too  much  respect.  I  believe  that  it  is  safe  to 
say  that  Christianity  is  indebted  for  none  of  its  progress  in  the 
world  to  rational  conflicts  with  infidelity.  I  do  not  believe 
that  a  single  great  wrong  has  ever  been  overthrown  by  meeting 

the  advocates  of  wrong  in  argument. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


350  INFLUENCE. 


INFLUENCE. 

The  Bible  calls  the  good  man's  life  a  light ;  and  it  is  the  na- 
ture of  light  to  flow  out  spontaneously  in  all  directions,  and 
fill  the  world  unconsciously  with  its  beams.  So  the  Christian 
shines  it  would  say,  not  so  much  because  he  will,  as  because  he 
is  a  luminous  object.  Not  that  the  active  influence  of  Chris- 
tians is  made  of  no  account  in  the  figure,  but  only  that  this 
symbol  of  light  has  its  propriety  in  the  fact  that  their  uncon- 
scious influence  is  the  chief  influence,  and  has  the  precedence 
in  its  power  over  the  world.  The  outward  endeavors  made  by 
good  men  or  bad  to  sway  others,  tliey  call  their  influence  ; 
whereas  it  is,  in  fact,  but  a  fraction,  and,  in  most  cases,  but  a" 
very  small  fraction  of  the  good  or  evil  that  flows  out  of  their 

lives. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


What  we  do  is  transacted  on  a  stage  of  which  all  the  universe 
are  spectators.  What  we  say  is  transmitted  in  echoes  that  will 
never  cease.  What  we  are  is  influencing  and  acting  on  the 
rest  of  mankind.  Neutral  we  cannot  be.  Living,  we  act ;  and 
dead,  w^e  speak  ;  and  the  whole  universe  is  the  mighty  company 
forever  looking,  forever  listening,  and  all  nature  the  tablets, 
forever  recording  the  words,  the  deeds,  the  thoughts,  the  pas- 
sions of  mankind.  — John  Cumming. 

If  you  had  the  seeds  of  a  pestilence  in  your  body,  you  would 
not  have  a  more  active  contagion  than  you  have  in  your  tem- 
pers, tastes,  and  principles.  Simply  to  be  in  this  world,  what- 
ever you  are,  is  to  exert  an  influence  —  an  influence,  too,  coni- 
pared  with  which  mere  language  and  persuasion  are  feeble. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


No  man  is  so  insignificant  as  to  be  sure  his  example  can  do  no 
hurt. 


INFLUENCE.  351 


To  get  good  is  animal  ;  to  do  good  is  human  ;  to  be  good  is 
Divine.  The  true  use  of  a  man's  possessions  is  to  help  his 
work  ;  and  the  best  end  of  all  his  work  is  to  show  us  what  he 
is.  The  noblest  workers  of  our  world  bequeath  us  nothing  so 
great  as  the  image  of  themselves.  Their  task,  be  it  ever  so 
glorious,  is  historical  and  transient,  the  majesty  of  their  spirit 
is  essential  and  eternal, 

—  James  Martineau. 


Every  word,  thought,  and  deed  has  its  influence  upon  the 
destiny  of  man.  Every  life,  well  spent  or  ill  spent,  bears  with 
it  a  long  train  of  consequences,  extending  through  generatiojis 
yet  unborn. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


No  fountain  is  so  small  but  that  heaven  may  be  imaged  in 
its  bosom, 

—  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 


The  serene,  silent  beauty  of  a  holy  life  is  the  most  powerful 
influence  in  the  world,  next  to  the  might  of  the  Spirit  of  God. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Thank  God !  some  lights  never  go  out.  Death  cannot 
quench  them.  They  shine  forever.  Luther's  great  lantern, 
"  The  just  shall  live  by  faith,"  still  gleams  from  Wartburg  Cas- 
tle. John  Bunyan's  lamp  twinkles  yet  through  the  gratings  of 
Bedford  jail. 

T.    L.  CUYLER. 


My  mother  spoke  of  Christ  to  father,  by  her  feminine  and 
childlike  virtues,  and,  after  having  borne  his  violence  without  a 
murmur  or  complaint^  gained  him  at  the  close  of  his  life  to 
Christc 

—  St.  Augustine. 


353  INTEGRITY. 


INTEGRITY. 

Give  us  a  man,  young  or  old,  high  or  low,  on  whom  we  know 

we  can   thoroughly  depend  —  who  will  stand  firm  when  others 

fail  —  the  friend  faithful  and  true,  the  adviser  honest  and  fearless, 

the  adversary  just  and  chivalrous  ;  in  such  an  one  there  is  a 

fragment  of  the  Rock  of  Ages  —  a  sign  that  there  has  been  a 

prophet  amongst  us, 

—  Dean  Stanley, 


Honesty  is  the  best  policy,  but  he  who  acts  on  that  principle 

is  not  an  honest  man. 

—  Bishop  Whately. 


Though  a  hundred  crooked  paths  may  conduct  to  a  temporary 
success,  the  one  plain  and  straight  path  of  public  and  private 
virtue  can  alone  lead  to  a  pure  and  lasting  fame  and  the  bless- 
ings of  posterity. 

—  Edward  Everett. 


Aaron  Burr  was  a  more  brilliant  man  than  George  Washing- 
ton. If  he  had  been  loyal  to  truth,  he  would  have  been  an  abler 
man  ;  but  that  which  made  George  Washington  the  chief  hero 
in  our  great  republic  was  the  sagacity,  not  of  intellectual  genius, 

but  of  the  moral  element  in  him. 

—  A.  E.  Dunning. 


The  man  who,  for  party,  forsakes  righteousness,  goes  down  ; 
and  the  armed  battalions  of  God  march  over  him. 

—  Wendell  Phillips. 


Gold  thou  mayest  safely  touch,  but  if  it  stick 
Unto  thy  hands,  it  woundeth  to  the  quick. 

—  George  Herbert. 


INTELLECT  —  INTEMPERANCE.  35S 


INTELLECT. 
The  intellect  has  only  one  failing,  which  to  be  sure,  is  a  very 
considerable   one.     It   has    no    conscience.     Napoleon  is  the 
readiest  instance  of  this.    If  his  heart  had  borne  any  proportion 
to  his  brain,  he  had  been  one  of  the  greatest  men  of  history. 

—  J.  R.  Lowell. 


She  should  be  my  counsellor, 
But  not  my  tyrant.     For  the  spirit  needs 
Impulses  from  a  deeper  source  than  hers  ; 
And  there  are  motions,  in  the  mind  of  man, 
That  she  must  look  upon  with  awe. 

—  W.  C.  Bryant. 


Every  thing  connected  with  intellect  is  permanent. 

—  William  Roscoe. 


Character  is  higher  than  intellect.    A  great  soul  will  be  strong 

to  live  as  well  as  strong  to  think. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


INTEMPERANCE. 
Intemperance  is  a  hydra  with  a  hundred  heads.      She  never 
stalks  abroad  unaccompanied  with  impurity,  anger,  and  the  most 

infamous  profligacies. 

—  Chrysostom. 

Other  vices  make  their  own  way;  this  makes  way  for  all  vices. 
He  that  is  a  drunkard  is  qualified  for  all  vice. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 


Oh,  that  men  should  put  an  enemy  in 
Their  mouths,  to  steal  away  their  brains. 

—  Shakspeare. 
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354  JOY. 

Voluptuous  habits  speedily  bind  all  the  powers  of  the  soul  in 
loathsome  vassalage,  and  exclude  every  thought  except  such  as 
relate  to  the  beastly  pleasures  of  which  it  is  the  slave.  Dis- 
tracted by  cravings  as  inexorable  as  they  are  base,  and  in  their 
vileness  perpetually  reproduced,  —  tantalized  by  the  impure 
fountains  of  a  diseased  imagination,  and  oppressed  with  its  own 
effeminacy,  —  the  mind  loses  its  vigor  and  its  productiveness. 
Every  faculty  rapidly  deteriorates  and  decays  ;  memory  becomes 
extinguished,  inanity  destroys  resolution,  and  the  heart  is  as 
cold  and  callous  as  a  cinder  extinct.  It  ceases  to  love,  to  sym- 
pathize, and  diffuse  the  delicious  tears  that  sanctify  friendship's 
shrine.  The  whole  countenance  assumes  an  expression  of  ob- 
durateness  and  repugnance.  The  features,  marked  with  pre- 
mature decay,  proclaim  that  the  source  of  gentle  sentiments, 
pure  emotions,  and  innocent  joys,  is  exhausted,  like  a  limpid 
fountain  invaded  by  the  scoria  and  flame  of  a  volcano.  All  the 
elements  of  life  seem  to  have  retreated  into  their  abused  or- 
gans only  to  perish  there.  Even  the  organs  themselves  are 
withered,  and  worse  than  dead  ;  their  infirmities,  maladies, 
sufferings,  rush  in  a  multitude  upon  the  degraded  victim,  and 
overwhelm  him  in   awful  retribution. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


JOY. 
"The  joy  of  the  Lord  is  your  strength,"  my  brother.  Noth- 
ing else  is.  No  vehement  resolutions,  no  sense  of  your  own  sin- 
fulness, nor  even  contrite  remembrance  of  your  own  failures, 
ever  made  a  man  strong  yet.  It  made  him  weak  that  he  might 
become  strong;  and  when  it  had  done  that,  it  had  done  its  work. 
For  strength  there  must  be  hope,  for  strength  there  must  be  joy. 

— ■  Alexander  Maclaren. 


JOY.  355 

When  we  speak  of  joy,  we  do  not  speak  of  something  we  are 
after,  but  of  something  that  will  come  to  us,  when  we  are  after 
God  and  duty.  It  is  a  prize  unbought,  and  is  freest,  purest  in 
its  flow,  when  it  comes  unsought.  No  getting  into  heaven  as  a 
place  will  compass  it.  You  must  carry  it  with  you,  or  else  it  is 
not  there.  You  must  have  it  in  you,  as  the  music  of  a  well- 
ordered  soul,  the  fire  of  a  holy  purpose,  the  welling  up,  out  of 
the  central  depths,  of  eternal  springs  that  hide  their  waters 
there.  It  is  the  rest  of  confidence,  the  blessedness  of  eternal 
light  and  outflowing  benevolence, —  the  highest  form  of  life  and 
spiritual  majesty.  Being  the  birth  of  character,  it  has  eternity 
in  it.  Rising  from  within,  it  is  sovereign  over  all  circumstances 
and  hindrances. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


God  offers  to  fill  our  homes  aud  our  hearts  with  joy  and  glad- 
ness if  we  will  only  let  Him  do  it.  We  cannot  create  the 
canary-birds  ;  but  we  can  provide  cages  for  them,  and  fill  our 
dwellings  with  their  music.  Even  so  we  cannot  create  the 
heavenly  gifts  which  Jesus  offers  ;  but  they  are  ours  if  we  pro- 
vide heart-room  for  them.  The  birds  of  peace  and  contentment 
and  joy  and  praise  will  fly  in  fast  enough  if  we  will  only  invite 
Jesus  Christ,  and  set  the  windows  of  our  souls  open  for  His 
coming, 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


God  is  merely  tuning  the  soul,  as  an  instrument,  in  this  life. 
And  these  joys  of  the  Christian,  are  only  the  notes  and  chords 
that  are  sounded  out  in  the  preparation  —  preludes  to  the  per- 
fect harmony  that  shall  flood  the  soul  —  forerunners  of  the  per- 
fected and  rapturous  joy  that  shall  bless  the  soul,  in  that  ex- 
ceeding and  eternal  weight  of  glory. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 

Joy  in  God  is  the  strength  pf  work  for  God  ;  but  work  for 
God  is  the  preparation  of  joy  in  God. 


356  JOY. 

Nobody  can  commit  his  way  unto  the  Lord  who  has  not  be- 
gun by  delighting  in  the  Lord  ;  and  nobody  can  rest  in  the 
Lord  who  has  not  committed  his  way  to  the  Lord. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


If  a  man  is  dying  for  want  of  bread,  and  you  give  him  bread, 
is  that  to  make  him  gloomy  ?  That  is  what  Christ  is  to  the  soul 
—  the  Bread  of  Life.  You  will  never  have  true  pleasure  or 
peace  or  joy  or  comfort  until  you  have  found  Christ. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Rejoice  evermore  in  your  Redeemer, —  in  His  truth  —  His 
person  —  His  almighty  grace  —  His  everlasting  faithfulness  — 
His  precious  blood  whose  efficacy  reaches  farther  than  the  eye 
of  your  conscience  ever  penetrated,  and  cleanses  you  from  a  sin- 
fulness more  inveterate  than  you  have  ever  conceived  to  be 
yours, 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


As  the  skillful  artist,  in  making  a  good  portrait,  finds  it  essen- 
tially necessary  to  use  the  dark  and  bright  colors  alternately, 
so  the  Divine  Artist  dips  His  pencil,  by  turns,  in  Marah  and 
Elim.  In  Marah  first,  and  the  background  is  laid  in  darkness 
black  as  midnight ;  and  then  in  Elim,  and  the  blackness  is  re- 
lieved with  the  colors  of  the  rainbow. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


These  are  the  marks  of  a  heart  that  is  living  in  the  joy  of  the 

resurrection.     It  lives  out  of  itself  ;  and  living  out  of  itself,  by 

this  unselfish  joy,  it  has  a  joy  in  itself  which  comes  from  the 

presence  of  Jesus  Christ ;    the  overflow  of   His  peace  which 

passeth  all  sense,  the  consciousuess  of  that  twofold  relationship 

—  His  relation  to  us,  our  relation  to  Him,  and  our  mutual  and 

indissoluble  love, 

—  Manning. 


JUDGING.  357 


We  ask  God  to  forgive  us  for  our  evil  thoughts  and  evil  tem- 
per, but  rarely,  if  ever,  ask  Him  to  forgive  us  for  our  sadness. 
Joy  is  regarded  as  a  happy  accident  of  the   Christian  life,  an 

ornament  and  a  luxury,  rather  than  a  duty. 

—  R.  W.  Dale. 


JUDGING. 
The  Holy  Spirit  would  lead  us  to  think  much  upon  our  own 
sins.     It   is  a  dangerous   thing  for  us  to  dwell  upon  the  imper- 
fections of  others. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


If  we  will  measure  other  people's  corn  in  our  own  bushel,  let 
us  first  take  it  to  the  Divine  standard,  and  have  it  sealed. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Be  thyself  blameless  of  what  thou  rebukest.   He  that  cleanses 
a  blot  with  blotted  fingers  makes  a  greater  blot. 


While  the  censorious  man  is  most   severe  in  judging  others, 

he  is  invariably  the  most  ready  to  repel  any  animadversions 

made  upon  himself  ;  upon  the  principle  well    understood   in 

medical  circles,  that   the  feeblest  bodies  are  always  the  most 

sensitive, 

—  E.  L.  Magoon, 


Would  that  our  harsh  judgments  could  be  restrained,  our 
impatience  checked,  our  selfishness  broken  down,  our  passions 
controlled,  our  waste  of  time  and  life  in  worthless  or  unworthy 
objects  corrected,  by  the  thought  that  there  is  One  in  whose 
hands  we  are,  who  cares  for  us  with  a  parent's  love,  who  will 
judge  us  hereafter  without  the  slightest  tinge  of  human  infirm- 
ity, the  All-Merciful  and  the  All-Just. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


358  JUDGMENT-DAY. 


JUDGMENT-DAY. 

Standing  on  my  watch-tower^  I  am  commanded,  if  I  see 
aught  of  evil  coniing,  to  give  warning.  I  solemnly  declare 
that  I  do  discern  evil  approaching ;  I  see  a  storm  collecting  in 
the  heavens ;  I  discover  the  commotion  of  the  troubled  ele- 
ments; I  hear  the  roar  of  a  distant  wind  —  heaven  and  earth 
seem  mingled  in  the  conflict  —  and  I  cry  to  those  for  whom  I 
watch,  "  A  storm  !  A  storm  I  Get  you  into  the  ark  or  you  are 
swept  away."  Oh  !  what  is  it  I  see  ?  I  see  a  world  convulsed 
and  falling  to  ruins  —  the  sea  burning  like  oil  —  nations  rising 
from  under  ground  —  the  sun  falling  —  the  damned  in  chains 
before  the  bar,  and  some  of  my  poor  hearers  among  them  !  I 
see  them  cast  from  the  battlements  of  the  judgment  scene  ' 
My  God  !  the  eternal  pit  has  closed  upon  them  forever ! 

—  E.  D.  Griffin. 


Meanwhile  the  globe  begins  to  tremble  on  its  axis;  the  moon 
is  covered  with  a  bloody  veil,  the  threatening  stars  hang  half 
detached  from  the  vault  of  heaven,  and  the  agony  of  the  world 
commences.  Then,  all  at  once,  the  fatal  hour  strikes  ;  God 
suspends  the  movements  of  the  creation,  and  the  earth  has 
passed  away  like  an  exhausted  river.  Now  resounds  the  trum- 
pet of  the  angel  of  judgment ;  and  the  cry  is  heard,  "  Arise, 
ye  dead  !  "  The  sepulchres  burst  open  with  a  terrific  noise, 
the  human  race  issues  all  at  once  from  the  tomb,  and  the  as- 
sembled multitudes  fill  the  valley  of  Jehoshaphat.  Behold,  the 
Son  of  Man  appears  in  the  clouds  ;  the  powers  of  hell  ascend 
from  the  depths  of  the  abyss  to  witness  the  last  judgment  pro- 
nounced upon  the  ages  ;  the  goats  are  separated  from  the  sheep, 
the  wicked  are  plunged  into  the  gulf,  the  just  ascend  triumph- 
antly to  heaven,  God  returns  to  His  repose,  and  the  reign  of 
eternity  commences. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


JUDGMENT-DAY.  359 


Winds,  storms,  tempests,  thunders,  lightnings,  raging  flames, 
dissolving  elements,  the  archangel's  trump  smiting  the  silence 
of  the  tomb,  the  universal  air  blazing  with  disastrous  splendors, 
"  the  tribes  of  the  earth  mourning  and  beating  their  breasts," 
the  wicked  calling  on  rocks  and  hills  to  fall  upon  them  and 
cover  them,  the  shouts  of  the  saved,  the  bowlings  of  the 
damned  —  all,  all  will  then  utter  one  voice,  all  will  pierce  our 
very  souls  with  their  tones  ;  all  will  repeat  these  words,  "  God 
alone  is  great,  and  God's  salvation  alone  deserved  the  cares, 
toils,  sacrifices  of  an  immortal  spirit." 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Oh,  on  that  day,  that  wrathful  day, 
When  man  to  judgment  wakes  from  clay, 
Be  Thou,  O  Christ,  the  sinner's  stay, 
Though  heaven  and  earth  shall  pass  away. 

—  Walter  Scott. 


Glorious  transformation  !  glorious  translation  !  I  seem  already 
to  behold  the  wondrous  scene.  The  sea  and  the  land  have 
given  up  their  dead !  the  quickened  myriads  have  been  judged 
according  to  their  works.  And  now,  an  innumerable  company, 
out  of  all  nations  and  tribes  and  tongues,  ascend  with  the  Me- 
diator towards  the  kingdom  of  His  Father.  Can  it  be  that  these, 
who  were  born  children  of  earth,  who  were  long  enemies  to  God 
by  wicked  works,  are  to  enter  the  bright  scenes  of  paradise  ? 
Yes,  He  who  leads  them  has  washed  them  in  His  blood  ;  He 
who  leads  them  has  sanctified  them  by  His  Spirit. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Then,  when  the  glorious  end. 

The  day  of  God  shall  come, 
The  angel  reapers  shall  descend. 

And  heaven  sing,  "  Harvest-home  !" 

—  T-  Montgomery. 


360  JUDGMENT-DAY. 


Now  shall  the  promises  made  to  Christ  by  God  the  Father 
before  the  foundation  of  the  world,  the  promises  of  the  cov- " 
enant  of  redemption,  be  fully  accomplished.  Christ  shall  now 
have  perfectly  obtained  the  joy  set  before  Him,  for  which  He 
undertook  those  great  sufferings  in  His  state  of  humiliation. 
Now  shall  all  the  hopes  and  expectations  of  the  saints  be  ful- 
filled. The  state  of  the  church  before  was  progressive  and  pre- 
paratory ;  but  now  she  is  arrived  at  her  most  perfect  state  of 
glory.  All  the  glory  of  the  church  on  earth  is  but  a  faint  shadow 
of  this  her  consummate  glory  in  heaven. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 

Oh,  remember  that  as  certain  as  the  historical  fact, —  He  died 
on  Calvary  ;  so  certain  is  the  prophetic  fact.  He  shall  reign,  and 
you  and  I  will  stand  tho-e.  I  durst  not  touch  that  subject.  Take 
it  into  your  own  hearts,  and  think  about  it, —  a  kingdom,  a 
judgment-seat,  a  crown,  a  gathered  universe  ;  separation,  de- 
cision, execution  of  the  sentence, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  are  all  approaching  that  dread  tribunal.  However  diver- 
sified our  paths,  they  all  converge  toward  that  common  centre. 
The  young,  with  their  elastic  tread,  are  striding  to  the  judg- 
ment ;  the  old,  with  their  tottering  limbs  are  creeping  to  the 
judgment  ;  the  rich  in  their  splendid  equipages  are  driving  to 
the  judgment  ;  the  poor,  in  rags  and  barefooted,  are  walking  to 
the  judgment.  The  Christian  making  God's  statutes  his  song,  is 
a  pilgrim  to  the  judgment;  the  sinner,  treading  upon  the  mercy 
of  Jesus,  and  trampling  upon  His  blood,  is  hastening  to  the 
judgment.       "  We  must  all  appear  before  the  judgment-seat  of 

Christ." 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


When  God  comes  to  us  in  judgment,  if  we  are  nor  in  Christ, 
all  will  be  alike.  Learned  or  unlearned,  high  or  low,  priest  or 
scribe  —  there  will  be  no  difference. 


JUSTICE  — JUSTIFICATION.  361 


Truly  at  the  day  of  judgment  we  shall  not  be  examined  as  to 
what  we  have  read,  but  as  to  what  we  have  done  ;  not  as  to 
how  well  we  have  spoken,  but  as  to  how  religiously  we  have 

lived. 

- —  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


The  deeds  we  do,  the  words  we  say, 
Into  still  air  they  seem  to  fleet ; 

We  count  them  ever  past ; 

But  they  shall  last  — 

In  the  dread  judgment  they 

And  we  shall  meet. 

—  John  Keble. 


JUSTICE. 


Justice  is  a  constant  and   perpetual  will  to  render  to  every 

one  that  which  is  his  own, 

—  Justinian. 

At  some  time,  here  or  hereafter,  every  account  must  be  settled, 

and  every  debt  paid  in  full. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent 


JUSTIFICATION. 

We  are  accounted  righteous  before  God,  only  for  the  merit  of 
our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  by  faith,  and  not  for  our  own 
works  or  deservings. 

—  Articles  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


Justification  is  an  act  of  God's  free  grace,  wherein  He  par- 

doneth  all  our  sins,  and  accepteth  us  as  righteous  m  His  sight, 

only  for  the  righteousness  of  Christ  imputed  to  us,  and  received 

by  faith  alone. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


362  KINDNESS. 


Justification  is  the  act  of  God  as  a  Judge  ;  adoption  as  a 
Father ;  by  the  former  we  are  discharged  from  condemnation, 
and  accepted  as  righteous  ;  by  the  latter  we  are  made  the 
children  of  God  and  joint-heirs  with  Christ. 

—  John  Guyse. 


Justification  is  the  work  of  Christ  for  us  ;  sanctification  the 
work  of  the  Spirit  /«  us  ;  justification  is  perfect  at  once  ;  sanc- 
tification is  progressive  ;  justification  is  before  sanctification, 
and  sanctification  is  the  fruit  of  justification  ;  consequently  the 
evidence  of  our  justification  is  our  sanctification. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


Justification  by  faith  is  the  answer  to  that  momentous  ques- 
tion, "  How  shall  man  be  just  with  God  ?"  And  the  reply  is, 
"  Not  by  works  of  his  own,  but  by  faith  in  the  work  of  another, 
that  is  Christ."  He  must  have  a  righteousness  in  which  to 
stand  before  a  righteous  and  a  holy,  as  well  as  a  merciful  God. 
He  has  no  such  righteousness  of  his  own.     Christ  is  the  end  of 

the  law  for  righteousness  unto  him. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


The  thief  upon  the  cross  and  the  beloved  John  were  alike 
complete  in  Christ. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


K. 

KINDNESS. 
I  expect  to  pass  through  this  life  but  once.     If  therefore 
there  be  any  kmdnesses  I  can  show,  or  any  good  thing  I  can  do 
to  any  fellow  beings,  let   me  do  it  now.     T.et  me  not  defer  or 
neglect  it,  for  I  shall  not  pass  this  way  again. 

—  Mrs.  a.  B.  Hegeman. 


KINDNESS.  363 


Life  is  made  up,  not  of  great  sacrifices  or  duties,  but  of  little 
things,  in  which  smiles  and  kindnesses  and  small  obligations, 
given  habitually,  are  what  win  and  preserve  the  heart,  and  se- 
cure comfort. 

—  Sir  Humphry  Davy. 


The  art  of  saying  appropriate  words  in  a  kindly  way  is  one 
that  never  goes  out  of  fashion,  never  ceases  to  please,  and  is 
within  the  reach  of  the  humblest. 


If  you  consider  that  the  constant  tenor  of  the  gospel  precepts 
is  to  promote  love,  peace,  and  good-will  amongst  men,  you  will 
not  doubt  that  the  cultivation  of  an  amiable  disposition  is  a 
great  part  of  your  religious  duty  ;  since  nothing  leads  more 
directly  to  the  breach  of  charity,  and  to  the  injury  and  moles- 
tation of  our  fellow-creatures  than  the  indulgence  of  an  ill- 
temper. 

—  Hester  Chapone. 


Kindness  has  converted  more   sinners  than  either  zeal,  elo- 
quence, or  learning. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


Every  one  of  us  knows  how  painful  it  is  to  be  called  by  mali- 
cious names,  to  have  his  character  undermined  by  false  insin- 
uations, to  be  overreached  in  a  bargain,  to  be  neglected  by 
those  who  rise  in  life,  to  be  thrust  on  one  side  by  those  who 
have  stronger  wills  and  stouter  hearts.  Every  one  knows,  also, 
the  pleasure  of  receiving  a  kind  look,  a  warm  greeting,  a  hand 
held  out  to  help  in  distress,  a  difficulty  solved,  a  higher  hope 
revealed  for  this  world  or  the  next.  By  that  pain  and  by  that 
pleasure  let  us  judge  what  we  should  do  to  others. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 

He  had  a  face  like  a  benediction. 

—  Cervantes. 


KNOWLEDGE. 


KNOWLEDGE. 

The  end  of  learning  is  to  know  God,  and  out  of  that  knowl- 
edge to  love  Him  and  imitate  Him. 

—  Milton. 


Real  knowledge,  like  every  thing  else  of  the  highest  value, 
is  not  to  be  obtained  easily.  It  must  be  worked  for,  —  studied 
for,  —  thought  for,  —  and,  more  than  all,  it  must  be  prayed  for. 

—  Thomas  Arnold. 


To  understand  at  all  what  life  means,  one  must  begin  with 
Christian  belief.     And  I  think  knowledge  may  be  sorrow  with 

a  man  unless  he  loves. 

■ — Wm.  Mountford. 


As  revelation  is  the  great  strengthener  of  reason,  the  march 
of  mind  which  leaves  the  Bible  in  the  rear,  is  an  advance,  like 
that  of  our  first  parents  in  Paradise,  towards  knowledge,  but,  at 
the  same  time,  towards  death. 

■ — Henry  Melvill. 


Knowledge  is  folly  unless  grace  guide  it. 

—  George  Herbert. 


An  uneducated  population  may  be  degraded  ;  a  population 
educated,  but  not  in  righteousness,  will  be  ungovernable.  The 
one  may  be  slaves,  the  other  must  be  tyrants. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Every  increase  of  knowledge  may  possibly  render  depravity 
more  depraved,  as  well  as  it  may  increase  the  strength  of  virtue. 
It  is  in  itself  only  power  ;  and  its  value  depends  on  its  applica- 
tion. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


KNOWLEDGE.  365 


Learning,  without  Christ,  is  among  the  most  dangerous  at- 
tainments the  human  race  has  ever  secured,  and  one  of  the  most 
unsatisfying. 

—  Bishop  Haven. 

,  If  thou  knewest  the  whole  Bible  by  heart,  and  the  sayings  of 
all  the  philosophers,  what  would  it  profit  thee  without  the  love 
of  God  and  without  grace  ? 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


What  a  man  knows  should  find  its  expression  in  what  he  does. 
The  value  of  superior  knowledge  is  chiefly  in  that  it  leads  to  a 
performing  manhood. 

—  C.   N.  BOVEE. 


Let  me  always  remember  that  it  is  not  the  amount  of  religious 
knowledge  which  I  have,  but  the  amount  which  I  use,  that 
determines  my  religious  position  and  character. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren, 


The  essential  difference  between  that  knowledge  which  is, 
and  that  which  is  not  conclusive  evidence  of  Christian  charac- 
ter, lies  in  this  :  the  object  of  the  one  is  the  agreement  of  the 
several  parts  of  a  theological  proposition  ;  the  object  of  the  other 
is  moral  beauty,  the  intrinsic  loveliness  of  God  and  Divine 
things.     The  sinner  sees  and  hates  ;  the  saint  sees  and  loves. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


There  is  oftentimes  a  great  deal  of  knowledge  where  there  is 
but  little  wisdom  to  improve  that  knowledge.  It  is  not  the 
most  knowing  Christian  but  the  most  wise  Christian  that  sees, 
avoids,  and  escapes  Satan's  snares.  Knowledge  without  wisdom 
is  like  mettle  in  a  blind  horse,  which  is  often  an  occasion  of  the 
rider's  fall. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


366  KNOWLEDGE. 


How  empty  learning,  and  how  vain  is  art, 
But  as  it  mends  the  life,  and  guides  the  heart ! 

—  Young. 


One  pound  of  learning  requires  ten  pounds  of  common  sense 
to  apply  it. 

The  wish  falls  often  warm  upon  my  heart  that  I  may  learn 
nothing  here  that  I  cannot  continue  in  the  other  world  ;  that  I 
may  do  nothing  here  but  deeds  that  will  bear  fruit  in  heaven. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


Much  learning  shows  how  little  mortals  know  ; 

Much  wealth,  how  little  worldlings  can  enjoy. 

—  Young. 


As  all  true  virtue,  wherever  found,  is  a  ray  of  the  life  of  the 
All-Holy  ;  so  all  solid  knowledge,  all  really  accurate  thought, 
descends  froni  the  Eternal  Reason,  and  ought,  when  we  appre- 
hend it,  to  guide  us  upwards  to  Him. 

—  H.  P.   LiDDON. 


Young  converts   are  sometimes   so  taken   up  with   religious 

feeling  and  doing  as  to  forget  the  importance  even,  in  reference 

to  that  of  knowing.       "  Grow  in  grace  and  in  the  knowledge  of 

our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ." 

—  John  Angel  James. 


Real  knowledge  never  promoted  either  turbulence  or  unbe- 
lief ;  but  its  progress  is  the  forerunner  of  liberality  and  en- 
lightened toleration. 

—  Lord  Brougham. 


O  Lord,  let  me  be  blessed  with  the  knowledge  of  what  Thou 
hast  revealed  ;  let  me  content  myself  to  adore  Thy  Divine  wis- 
dom in  what  Thou  hast  not  revealed. 


LABOR.  367 


L. 


LABOR 

Labor  is  not,  as  some  have  erroneously  supposed,  a  penal 
clause  of  the  original  curse.  There  was  labor,  bright,  healthful, 
unfatiguing,  in  unfallen  Paradise.  By  sin,  labor  became  drudg- 
ery —  the  earth  was  restrained  from  her  spontaneous  fertility, 
and  the  strong  arm  of  the  husbandman  was  required,  not  to  de- 
velop, but  to  "  subdue  "  it.  But  labor  in  itself  is  noble,  and  is 
necessary  for  the  ripe  unfolding  of  the  highest  life. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 

Labor  is  the  true  alchemist  that  beats  out  in  patient  transmu- 
tation the  baser  metals  into  gold. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


Nothing  is  denied  to  well-directed  labor  ;  nothing  is  ever  to 

be  attained  without  it. 

—  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 


It  is  intended  that  we  shall  accomplish  all,  through  law,  that 
we  can  accomplish  for  ourselves.  God  gives  every  bird  its  food, 
but  does  not  throw  it  into  the  nest.  He  does  not  unearth  the 
good  that  the  earth  contains,  but  He  puts  it  in  our  way,  and  gives 
us  the  means  of  getting  it  ourselves. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Blessed  is  the  man  who  has  found  his  work ;  let  him  ask  no 
other  blessedness.  Know  thy  work,  and  do  it  ;  and  work  at  it 
like  Hercules.    One  monster  there  is  in  the  world,  the  idle  man, 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


God  does  not  give  excellence  to  men  but  as  the  reward  of 
labor. 

—  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 


368  LABOR. 

No  man  is  born  into  the  world  whose  work  is  not  born  with 
him.  There  is  always  work,  and  tools  to  work  withal,  for  those 
who  will. 

— H.  W.  Beecher. 


Work  is  God's  ordinance  as  truly  as  prayer. 

—  George  D.  Boardman. 


The  virtues,  like  the  body,  become  strong  more  by  labor  than 
by  nourishment. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


The  more  we  work  the  more  we  need  to  pray.  In  this  day 
of  activity  there  is  great  danger,  not  of  doing  too  much,  but  of 
praying  too  little  for  so  much  work. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Jesus  aimed  to  impregnate  the  natural  with  the  spiritual,  and 
to  resolve  all  our  avocations  into  a  heavenly  discipline. 

—  Bishop  Clark. 


The  gospel  freely  admitted  makes  a  man  happy.  It  gives 
him  peace  with  God,  and  makes  him  happy  in  God.  It  gives 
to  industry  a  noble,  contented  look  which  selfish  drudgery 
never  wore ;  and  from  the  moment  that  a  man  begins  to  do 
his  work  for  his  Saviour's  sake,  he  feels  that  the  most  ordinary 
employments  are  full  of  sweetness  and  dignity,  and  that  the 
most  difficult  are  not  impossible.  And  if  any  of  you,  my 
friends,  is  weary  with  his  work,  if  dissatisfaction  with  yourself 
or  sorrow  of  any  kind  disheartens  you,  if  at  any  time  you 
feel  the  dull  paralysis  of  conscious  sin,  or  the  depressing  in- 
fluence of  vexing  thoughts,  look  to  Jesus,  and  be  happy.  Be 
happy,  and  your  joyful  work  will  prosper  well. 

WiLBERFORCE. 


LABOR.  369 

Man  must  work.  That  is  certain  as  the  sun.  But  he  may 
work  grudgingly,  or  he  may  work  gratefully  ;  he  may  work  as 
a  man,  or  he  may  work  as  a  machine.  He  cannot  always  choose 
his  work,  but  he  can  do  it  in  a  generous  temper,  and  with  an 
up-looking  heart.  There  is  no  work  so  rude,  that  he  may  not 
exalt  it ;  there  is  no  work  so  impassive,  that  he  may  not  breathe 
a  soul  into  it ;  there  is  no  work  so  dull,  that  he  may  not  en- 
liven it. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


No  man  is  base  who  does  a  true  work  ;  for  true  action  is  the 
highest  being.  No  man  is  miserable  that  does  a  true  work  ; 
for  right  action  is  the  highest  happiness.  No  man  is  isolated 
that  does  a  true  work  ;  for  useful  action  is  the  highest  harmony 
—  it  is  the  highest  harmony  with  nature  and  with  souls  —  it  is 
living   association   with    men  —  and   it  is  practical    fellowship 

with  God. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Labor  is  sweet,  for  Thou  hast  toiled, 
And  care  is  light,  for  Thou  hast  cared  ; 

Let  not  our  works  with  self  be  soiled. 
Nor  in  unsimple  ways  ensnared. 

Through  life's  long  day  and  death's  dark  night, 
O  gentle  Jesus !  be  our  light. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


A  man's  labors  must  pass  like  the  sunrises  and  sunsets  of  the 
world.     The  next  thing,  not  the  last,  must  be  his  care. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Labor  is  a  curse  until  communion  with  God  in  it,  which  is 

possible  through  Jesus  Christ,  makes  it  a  blessing  and  a  joy. 

Christ,  in  the  sweat  of  His  brow,  won  our  salvation  ;  and  our 

work  only  becomes  great  when  it  is  work  done  in,  and  for,  and 

by  Him. 

24 


370  LAST  SUPPER. 


LAST  SUPPER. 

Not  worthy;  Lord,  to  gather  up  the  crumbs 
With  trembUng  hand  that  from  Thy  table  fall, 

A  weary,  heavy  laden  sinner  comes 

To  plead  Thy  promise  and  obey  Thy  call. 

E.  H.  BiCKERSTETH. 

We  do  not  presume  to  come  to  this  Thy  table,  O  merciful 
Lord,  trusting  in  our  own  righteousness,  but  in  Thy  manifold 
and  great  mercies.  We  are  not  worthy  so  much  as  to  gather  up 
the  crumbs  under  Thy  table.  But  Thou  art  the  same  Lord, 
whose  property  is  always  to  have  mercy.  Grant  us,  therefore, 
gracious  Lord,  so  to  eat  the  flesh  of  Thy  dear  Son  Jesus  Christ, 
and  to  drink  His  blood,  that  our  sinful  souls  and  bodies  may  be 
made  clean  by  His  death,  and  washed  through  His  most  precious 
blood,  and  that  we  may  evermore  dwell  in  Him,  and  He  in  us. 
—  Methodist  Book  of  Discipline. 


We  do  not  come  to  the  Lord's  Supper  to'  testify  thereby  that 
we  are  perfect  and  righteous  in  ourselves  ;  but  on  the  contrary 
considering  that  we  seek  our  life  out  of  ourselves  in  Jesus 
Christ,  we  acknowledge  that  we  lie  in  the  midst  of  death. 
Therefore,  notwithstanding  we  feel  many  infirmities  and  mis- 
eries in  ourselves ;  as  namely,  that  we  have  not  perfect  faith, 
and  that  we  do  not  give  ourselves  to  serve  God  with  that  zeal 
as  we  are  bound,  but  have  daily  to  strive  with  the  weakness  of 
our  faith,  and  the  evil  lusts  of  our  flesh  ;  yet  since  we  are  by 
the  grace  of  the  Holy  Ghost  sorry  for  these  weaknesses,  and 
earnestly  desirous  to  fight  against  our  unbelief,  and  to  live  ac- 
cording to  all  the  commandments  of  God ;  therefore  we  rest 
assured  that  no  sin  or  infirmity,  which  still  remaineth  against 
our  will  in  us,  can  hinder  us  from  being  received  of  God  in 
mercy,  and  from  being  made  worthy  partakers  of  this  heavenly 
meat  and  drink.       —  Liturgy  of  the  Reformed  Church. 


LAST  SUPPER.  ■  371 


Dear  Lord  !  while  we  adoring  pay 

Our  humble  thanks  to  Thee, 

May  every  heart  with  rapture  say, — 

"The  Saviour  died  for  me  !" 

—  Anne  Steele. 


This  bread  and  wine  are  the  simple  but  eloquent  monument 
to  the  infinite  love  of  the  Son  of  God,  around  which  we  gather 
with  tender,  tearful  gratitude,  because  He  loved  us  so,  and  be- 
cause we  know  that  our  garlands  of  affection  and  consecration 
are  pleasing  to  Him. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Surely  there  is  a  fitness  in  the  institution  of  the  Lord's  Sup- 
per as  a  standing  memorial  by  which  the  church  at  large  may 
commemorate  the  grandest  act,  and  by  which  the  heart  of  each 
individual  believer  may  be  reminded  of  his  dearest  friend. 
You,  who  have  learned  to  love  the  Saviour,  will  prize  His  ordi- 
nance for  the  Saviour's  sake.  You  who  rejoice  in  the  salva- 
tion purchased  by  His  dying,  will  not  fail  with  gratitude  and 
faith  to  show  the  Lord's  death  until  He  come. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


Love  and  grief  our  hearts  dividing. 

With  our  tears  His  feet  we  bathe  ; 
Constant  still,  in  faith  abiding, 

Life  deriving  from  His  death. 

—  James  Allen. 


To  turn  one's  back  on  the  memorial  supper  is  to  disregard 
the  most  tender  and  loving  and  melting  of  all  our  Saviour's 
commandments.  It  is  not  needful  to  know  just  how  obedience 
will  help  us.  It  is  enough  to  know  that  it  was  His  dying  com- 
mand that  we  keep  it  till  He  come. 

—  Henry  M.  Grout. 


372  LAST  SUPPER. 


Attendance  at  the  Lord's  table  is  not  a  subject  left  to  human 

choice  ;  but  to  every  disciple  of  Jesus  His  express  and  solemn 

command  is,   "Do  this." 

—  J.  G.  Pike. 


Beloved,  I  congratulate  you,  that  you  are  at  the  feast  of  re- 
deeming love,  that  you  know  the  riches  of  grace  in  Christ  Jesus; 
but  this  is  only  the  "  early  meal  "  (introductory  feast)  ;  the 
"  grand  supper  "  is  awaiting  you,  at  the  close  of  the  day,  in  the 
palace  of  the  King,  where  the  fellowship  will  be  perfect  and 
eternal,  where  the  table  will  be  beyond  all  the  mists  and  fogs 
of  sin,  where  death  never  enters  to  disturb  the  festivities,  and 
where  we  shall  see  the  Lamb  face  to  face.  O  !  if  the  feast 
with  Jesus  here  is  so  precious,  what,  what  must  heaven  be ! 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Brethren,  here  in  the  sacrament  is  the  rainbow  of  the  new 
and  better  covenant,  the  renewed  pledge  of  salvation  purchased, 
and  strength  imparted,  and  blessing  conferred  on  the  believing 
soul.  And  now,  as  in  your  covenant  you  pay  your  vows  —  time, 
talent,  influence,  property,  life,  all  God's,  —  He  the  Infinite,  in 
boundless  condescension  stoops  to  whisper,  "  My  light,  my 
strength,  my  purity,  my  joy,  my  heaven,  all  yours."  Thou 
hast  avouched  the  Lord  this  day  to  be  thy  God,  to  walk  in  His . 
ways,  and  to  keep  His  statutes  and  His  commandments,  and 
His  judgments,  to  hearken  to  His  voice  ;  and  the  Lord  hath 
avouched  thee  this  day  to  be  His  peculiar  people,  as  He  hath 
promised  thee.  And  thus,  brethren,  in  a  mutual  covenant  of 
blessing,  you  do  show  forth  His  death  until  He  come. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


For  they  truly  know  their  Lord  in  the  breaking  of  bread, 
whose  heart  within  them  so  vehemently  burneth,  whilst  I'hou, 
O  blessed  Jesus,  dost  walk  and  converse  with  them. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


LAST  SUPPER.  373 


We,  too,  must  enter  into  the  Saviour's  sorrow.  For  us,  if  we 
believe  in  Him,  He  breaks  the  bread,  and  pours  the  wine  •  and 
when  we  eat  and  drink,  we  do  show  the  Lord's  death  until  He 
come.  His  death,  not  His  life,  though  that  was  lustrous  with 
a  holiness  without  the  shadow  of  a  stain.  His  death,  not  His 
teaching,  though  that  embodied  the  fullness  of  a  wisdom  that 
was  Divine.  His  death,  not  His  miracles,  though  His  course 
was  a  march  of  mercy,  and  in  His  track  of  blessing  the  world 
rejoiced  and  was  glad.  His  death  !  His  body  not  glorious,  but 
broken  ;  His  blood,  not  coursing  through  the  veins  of  a  con- 
queror, but  shed,  poured  out  for  man.  His  death  !  Still  His 
death  !  Grandest  and  most  consecrating  memory  both  for 
earth  and  heaven  ! 

— -Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


We  cannot  embrace  His  cross,  and  yet  refuse  our  own.  We 
cannot  raise  the  cup  of  His  remembrance  to  our  lips,  without  a 
secret  pledge  to  Him,  to  one  another,  to  the  great  company  of 
the  faithful  in  every  age  that  we,  too,  hold  ourselves  at  God's 
disposal,  that  we  will  ask  nothing  on  our  own  account,  that  we 
will  pass  simply  into  the  Divine  hand  to  take  us  whither  it  will. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Christ  has  given  us,  not  only  the  ritual  of  an  ordinance,  but 
the  pattern  for  our  lives,  when  He  took  the  cup,  and  gave 
thanks.  So  common  joys  become  sacraments,  enjoyment  be- 
comes worship,  and  the  cup  which  holds  the  bitter  or  the  sweet 
skillfully  mingled  for  our  lives  becomes  the  cup  of  blessing  and 
salvation  drank  in  remembrance  of  Him. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


A  heart-memory  is  better  than  a  mere  head-memory.  Better 
to  carry  away  a  little  of  the  love  of  Christ  in  our  souls,  than  if 
we  were  able  to  repeat  every  word  of  every  sermon  we  ever 
heard,  — Francis  de  Sales. 


374  LAW. 

Your  participation  of  the  holy  communion  must  be  regarded 
as  the  fresh  act  of  your  espousals,  as  the  solemn  renewal  of  your 
covenant  ;  as  your  surrender,  entire  and  unhesitating,  to  the 
service  of  the  Lord.  It  is  thus  that  you  confess  Christ,  and  wit- 
ness of  Him  to  the  world.  If  you  eat  and  drink  without  dis- 
cerning this  great  purpose,  you  eat  and  drink  unworthily;  if  you 
repudiate  such  purpose,  either  in  thought  or  act,  you  crucify  in 
your  measure  the  Son  of  God  afresh,  and  put  Him  to  an  open 
shame.  By  your  profane  use  of  the  means  of  grace  without  the 
slightest  desire  for  the  grace  of  the  means,  it  is  as  if  you  cut  and 
wounded  the  Saviour  in  this  the  house  of  His  friends,  and 
sharpened  the  daggers  of  your  treachery  upon  the  tables  of  the 

violated  law. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  Lord's  Supper  !  the  marriage  supper  of  the  Lamb ! 
There  are  vacant  seats  around  the  table  here.  Will  there  be 
dear  ones  missed  at  the  table  there  ? 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


LAW. 

Of  law  there  can  be  no  less  acknowledged  than  that  her  seat 
is  the  bosom  of  God,  her  voice  the  harmony  of  the  world  :  all 
things  in  heaven  and  earth  do  her  homage,  the  very  least  as 
feeling  her  care,  and  the  greatest  as  not  exempt  from  her  power. 

—  Richard  Hooker. 


The  law  of  God  is  not  the  conflict  of  will  with  will,  but  of 
wisdom  with  folly,  knowledge  with  ignorance,  right  with  wrong 
—  the  announcement  out  of  parental  love,  of  the  conditions  of 
spiritual  life,  happiness,  immortality.  The  punishment  of  sin, 
therefore,  may  be  contemplated,  not  as  the  overflowing  of  wrath, 
but  the  outworkings  of  natural  law,  coincident  with  the  judg- 
ment of  infinite  righteousness. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


LAW.  375 

Laws,  in  their  most  general  signification,  are  the  necessary  re- 
lations derived  from  the  nature  of  things. 

—  Montesquieu. 


Law,  meaning  obedience  to  a  holy  God,  passes  by  a  natural 

transition  into  the  gospel ;  that  is,  reverential  duty  to  a  person, 

to  the  obedience  of  love  at  last,  which  obeys,  because  the  beau- 

tifulness  of  obedience  is  perceived. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  law  showed  what  man  ought  to  be.    Christ  showed  what 

man  is,  and  what  God  is. 

—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


The  law  discovers  the  disease.    The  gospel  gives  the  remedy. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


The  law  is  what  we  must  do  ;  the  gospel  what  God  will  give. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


The  law  sends   us  to  Christ  to  be  justified,  and  Christ  sends 

us  to  the  law  to  be  regulated. 

—  John  Flavel. 

Though  the  moral  law  has  ceased  as  a  covenant,  it  remains 

as  a  rule  of  life.     It  will   forever  continue  as  the  standard  of 

holiness. 

—  Charles  Backus. 


The  moral  law  is  to  be  viewed  not  only  as  the  rule  of  our 
obedience,  but  also  as  the  reason  of  it.  We  must  not  only  do 
what  is  commanded,  and  avoid  what  is  forbidden  in  the  law  ; 
but  we  must  also  do  good,  for  this  very  reason,  that  God  requires 
it,  and  avoid  evil,  because  He  forbids  it. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


376  LEARNING  OF  CHRIST. 


LEARNING  OF  CHRIST. 

A  man  may  call  himself  a  Christian  —  but  the  measure  of 
his  Christianity  is  the  occupation  of  his  mind  and  heart  with 
the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


In  the  school  of  Christ   they  are  the  best  scholars  who  con- 
tinue learning  to  the  last 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


We  cannot  be  scholars  of  Christ  without  trying  to  understand 
what  is  the  place  and  the  work  in  the  world  for  which  each  of 
us  is  fitted.  Every  thing  which  befalls  us  is  part  of  our  educa- 
tion. Every  event  and  condition  of  life  is  a  lesson  which  is 
to  be  turned  to  account  to  make  us  more  worthy  of  Him  who 
by  suffering  was  made  perfect  —  who  Himself  entered  not  into 
glory,  till  first  He  had  suffered  pain. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


The  disciples  were  not  losing  time  when  they  sat  beside  their 
Master,  and  held  quiet  converse  with  Him  under  the  olives  of 
Bethany  or  by  the  shores  of  Galilee.  Those  were  their  school- 
hours  ;  those  were  their  feeding  times. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler, 


Brethren,  we  can  rule  our  tempers,  and  we  ought.  Open  the 
gospel,  that  most  profound  philosophy  of  the  human  soul,  and 
yet  most  simple  and  practical  directory  of  human  duty  ;  study 
it,  fill  your  whole  nature  with  its  inspiration  ;  set  Christ  before 
you  ;  look  upon  His  calm  forehead  and  unstormed  breast  ; 
think  how  He  endured  all  contradiction  of  sinners,  and  endured 
them  to  the  cross ;  and  on  the  cross  learn  of  Him  then,  for  He 
was  meek  and  lowly  of  heart. 

— ^  Henry  Giles. 


LIBERTY.  377 

Only,  stay  by  his  side 

Till  the  page  is  really  known, 
It  may  be  we  failed  because  we  tried 

To  learn  it  all  alone. 
And  now  that  He  would  not  let  us  lose 

One  lesson  of  love 
(For  He  knows  the  loss,)  —  can  we  refuse  ? 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


LIBERTY. 

A  day,  an  hour  of  virtuous  liberty, 

Is  worth  a  whole  eternity  in  bondage. 

—  Addison. 


The  first  freedom  is  freedom  from  sin. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


He  is  the  freeman  whom  the  truth  makes  free. 


There  are  two  freedoms  —  the  false,  where  a  man  is  free  to 

do  \Vhat  he  likes ;  the  true,  where  a  man  is  free  to  do  what  he 

ought. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


It  is  a  question  not  often  considered,  whether  we  are  not  just 

as  independent  when  we  choose  an  upright  and  godly  course, 

even  if  our  fathers  did  walk  in  it,  as  when  we  follow  somebody's 

example  in  sin.     Indeed  the  highest  and  truest  independence  is 

that  which  always  elects  to  do  right. 

—  Henry  M.  King. 


Conquer  thyself.     Till  thou  hast  done  that,  thou  art  a  slave; 

for  it  is  almost  as  well  to  be  in  subjection  to  another's  appetite 

as  thine  own. 

—  Burton. 


378  LIBERTY, 

The  only  rational  liberty  is  that  which  is  born  of  subjection, 
reared  in  the  fear  of  God  and  the  love  of  man,  and  made  cour- 
ageous in  the  defense  of  a  trust  and  the  prosecution  of  duty. 

—  W.    G.  SIMMS. 


Do  you  wish  to  be  free  ?  Then  above  all  things,  love  God, 
love  your  neighbor,  love  one  another,  love  the  common  weal  ; 
then  you  will  have  true  liberty. 

—  Savonarola. 


This  is  the  true  liberty  of  Christ,  when  a  free  man  binds 
himself  in  love  to  duty.  Not  in  shrinking  from  our  distaste- 
ful occupations,  but  in  fulfilling  them,  do  we  realize  our  high 

origin. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  moment  you  accept  God's  ordering,  that  moment  your 

work  ceases  to  be  a  task,  and  becomes  your  calling  ;  you  pass 

from  bondage  to  freedom,  from   the   shadow-land  of  life   into 

life  itself. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull, 


Not  until  right  is  founded  upon  reverence,  will  it  be  secure  ; 
not  until  duty  is  based  upon  love,  will  it  be  complete  ;  not  un- 
til liberty  is  based  on  eternal  principles,  will  it  be  full,  equal, 

lofty,  and  universal. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


The  great  comprehensive  truths,  written  on  every  page  of 
our  history,  are  these  :  Human  happiness  has  no  perfect  secu- 
rity but  freedom  ;  freedom  none  but  virtue  ;  virtue  none  but 
knowledge  ;  and  neither  freedom  nor  virtue  has  any  vigor  or  im- 
mortal hope,except  in  the  principles  of  the  Christian  faith,  and 
in  the  sanctions  of  the  Christian  religion. 

—  QUINCY. 


LIBERTY.  379 

What  is  liberty  without  wisdom  and  without  virtue  ?  It  is 
the  greatest  of  all  possible  evils,  for  it  is  folly,  vice,  and  mad- 
ness, without  tuition  or  restraint, 

—  Edmund  Burke. 


That  religion  which  holds  that  all  men  are  equal  in  the  sight 
of  the  great  Father  will  not  refuse  to  acknowledge  that  all  citi- 
zens are  equal  in  the  sight  of  the  law. 

—  De  Tocqueville. 


Christianity  is  the  companion  of  liberty  in  all  its  conflicts  — 
the  cradle  of  its  infancy,  and  the  Divine  source  of  its  claims. 

—  De  Tocqueville. 


True  liberty  can  exist  only  when  justice  is  equally  adminis- 
tered to  all. 

—  Lord  Mansfield. 


The  Spirit  of  God  first  imparts  love  ;  He  next  inspires  hope, 
and  then  gives  liberty  ;  and  that  is  about  the  last  thing  we 
have  in  a  good  many  of  our  churches  at  the  present  time. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


O,  we  all  long  for  the  day,  the  blessed  day,  when  freedom 
shall  at  least  be  co-extensive  with  Christendom  ;  when  a  slave 
political  or  domestic,  shall  not  tread  on  an  atom  upon  which 
the  cross  of  Calvary  has  cast  its  shadow ;  when  the  baptism  of 
the  crucified  shall  be  on  every  brow,  the  seal  of  a  heavenly 
sonship ;  when  the  fire  of  a  new  Pentecost  shall  melt  asunder, 
by  its  divine  heat  of  charity,  the  bond  which  wrong  or  preju- 
dice has  fastened  ;  when,  to  touch  any  spot  over  the  wide 
sweep  of  God's  Christianized  earth,  any  spot  which  the  gospel 
of  the  Saviour  has  ever  visited,  which  the  name  of  the  Saviour 
has  ever  sanctified,  shall  be,  in  itself,  the  spell  of  a  complete 
deliverance,  the  magic  of  a  perfect  franchise. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


380  LIFE. 

Illustrious  confessors  of  Jesus  Christ,  a  Christian  finds  in 
prison  the  same  joys  as  the  prophets  tasted  in  the  desert.  Call 
it  not  a  dungeon,  but  a  solitude.  When  the  soul  is  in  heaven, 
the  body  feels  not  the  weight  of  fetters  ;  it  carries   the  whole 

man  along  with  it. 

—  Tertullian. 


LIFE. 

Life  as  we  call  it,  is  nothing  but  the  edge  of  the  boundless 
ocean  of  existence  when  it  comes  upon  soundings. 

—  O.  W.  Holmes. 


Life  is  before  you, —  not  earthly  life  alone,  but  life —  a  thread 
running  interminably  through  the  warp  of  eternity. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


O  thou  child  of  many  prayers  ! 

Life  hath  quicksands,  Life  hath  snares  ! 

Care  and  age  come  unawares  ! 

—  Longfellow. 


It  is  not  possible  to  set  out  in  the  Christian  profession  with 
a  more  instructive  or  impressive  idea  than  this  —  Life  is  the 
seed-time  for  eternity. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


The  grand  question  of  life  is,  Is  my  name  unHtten  in  heaven  ? 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  end  of  life  is  to  be  like  unto  God ;  and  the  soul  follow- 
ing God,  will  be  like  unto  Him. 

—  Socrates. 


Life   is  an  outliving  of  world  after  world.       Where  is  now 
what  the  world  was  to  you  at  ten  years  old  ? 


LIFE.  381 

God  help  us  !  it  is  a  foolish  little  thing,  this  human  life,  at 
the  best  ;  and  it  is  half  ridiculous  and  half  pitiful  to  see  what 
importance  we  ascribe  to  it,  and  to  its  little  ornaments  and  dis- 
tinctions. *  —  Jeffrey. 

The  feeling  of  life's  nothingness  argues  a  mind  capable  of 
heavenly  grandeur,  and  if  capable,  then  made  for  it. 


There  is  no  life  so  humble  that,  if  it  be  true  and  genuinely 
human  and  obedient  to  God,  it  may  not  hope  to  shed  some  of 
His  light.  There  is  no  life  so  meager  that  the  greatest  and 
wisest  of  us  can  afford  to  despise  it.  We  cannot  know  at  what 
moment  it  may  flash  forth  with  the  life  of  God. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Life  is  rather  a  state  of  embryo,  a  preparation  for  life  ;  a  man 
is  not  completely  born  till  he  has  passed  through  death. 

—  Franklin. 


Brethren,  it  is  the  prismatic  halo  and  ring  of  eternity  round 
this  poor  glass  of  time  that  gives  it  all  its  dignity,  all  its  mean- 
ing.    The  lives  that  are  lived  before  God  cannot  be  trifles. 


As  one  climbs  a  mountain  roadway,  and  looks  off  on  the 
landscape  through  the  forest  trees  or  from  some  overtopping 
crag,  at  each  step  he  sees  more  and  more  of  the  outlying 
beauty  of  field  and  lake  and  forest  and  hill  and  river,  till  he 
reaches  the  summit,  where  the  whole  vast  scene  opens  to  the 
view,  and  enthuses  his  soul  with  delight.  So  life  should  be  a 
_cpnstant  lookout,  through  the  gray  mists,  through  the  falling 
shadows,  through  the  running  tears,  till  he  comes  to  the  shin- 
ing top  of  life  in  God  Himself,  where  the  fogs  lift,  and  the 
shadows  fall,  and  the  view  is  all  undisturbed. 

—  T.  B.   ROMEYN. 


382  LIFE. 

A  picture  without  sky  has  no  glory.     This  present,  unless 

we  see  gleaming  beyond  it  the  eternal  calm  of  the  heavens, 

above  the  tossing  tree  tops  with  withering  leaves,  and  the  smoky 

chimneys,  is  a  poor  thing  for  our  eyes  to  gaze  at,  or  our  hearts 

to  love,  or  our  hands  to  toil  on. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Life  is   great  if  properly  viewed  in  any  aspect ;  it  is  mainly 
great  when  viewed  in  connection  with  the  world  to  come. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


There  is  no  human  life  so  poor  and  small  as  not  to  hold  many 

a  divine  possibility. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Life  and  religion  are  one,  or  neither  is  any  thing. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Let  the  current  of  your  being  set  towards  God,  then  your  life 

will  be  filled  and  calmed  by  one  master-passion  which  unites 

and  stills  the  soul. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Man's  life  is  so  interwoven  with  the  grand  life  of  his  Maker 

that  it  admits  of  no  adequate  or  rational  interpretation  except 

when  the  Creator  as  Supreme  and  the  creatures  of  His  hand  as 

subordinate,  are  seen  working  in  unison. 

—  Charles  H.  Anthony. 


I  believe  that  we  cannot  live  better  than  in  seeking  to  become 

better. 

—  Socrates. 


Making  their  lives  a  prayer. 

—  Whittier. 


LIFE.  383 

While  we  seek  to  fill  up  life  in  a  way  that  will  best  -secure  the 

ends  of  our  existence  here,  our  whole  plan  and  course  of  action 

should  be  such  as  will  not  hinder  but  serve  our  preparation  for 

a  future  world. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Pray  for  and  work  for  fullness  of  life  above  every  thing  ;  full 
red  blood  in  the  body ;  full  honesty  and  truth  in  the  mind  ;  and 
the  fullness  of  a  grateful  love  for  the  Saviour  in  your  heart. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


I  find  death  perfectly  desirable  ;  but  I  find  life  perfectly  beau- 
tiful. 


Every  day  that  is  born  into  the  world  comes  likes  a  burst  of 
music,  and  rings  itself  all  the  way  through  ;  and  thou  shalt  make 
of  it  a  dance,  a  dirge,  or  a  grand  life-march  as  thou  wilt. 

—  Ladies'  Repository. 


Act  as  if  you  expected  to  live  a  hundred  years,  but  might  die 

to-morrow. 

—  Ann  Lee. 


Nor  love  thy  lif^,  nor  hate  ;  but  what  thou  livest, 
Live  well  ;  how  long,  or  short,  permit  to  Heaven. 

—  Milton. 


We  live  in  deeds,  not  years  ;  in  thoughts,  not  breaths  ; 
In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 
We  should  count  time  by  heart-throbs.    He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most,  feels  the  noblest,  acts  the  best. 

—  P.  J.  Bailey. 


I  would  not  choose  to  go  where  I  would  be  afraid  to  die,  nor 
could  I  bear  to  live  without  a  good  hope  for  hereafter. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


384  LIFE. 

Life  iz  short,  art  long,  opportunity  fleeting,  experiment  uncer- 
tain, and  judgment  difficult. 

—  Hippocrates. 


A  few  years  hence  and  he  will  be  beneath  the  sod  ;  but  those 
cliffs  will  stand,  as  now,  facing  the  ocean,  incessantly  lashed  by 
its  waves,  yet  unshaken,  immovable  ;  and  other  eyes  will  gaze 
on  them  for  their  brief  day  of  life,  and  then  they,  too,  will  close. 

— -H.  P.   LiDDON. 


They  waste  life  in  what  are  called  good  resolutions  —  partial 
efforts  at  reformation,  feebly  commenced,  heartlessly  con- 
ducted, and  hopelessly  concluded. 

—  Maturin. 


It  is  infamy  to  die,  and  not  be  missed. 

—  Carlos  Wilcox 


And  thus  does  life  go  on,  until  death  accomplishes  the  catas- 
trophe in  silence,  takes  the  worn  frame  within  his  hand,  and,  as 
if  it  were  a  dried-up  scroll,  crumbles  it  in  his  grasp  to  ashes. 
The  monuments  of  kingdoms,  too,  shall  disappear.  Still  the 
globe  shall  move ;  still  the  stars  shall  biJrn  ;  still  the  sun  shall 
paint  its  colors  on  the  day,  and  its  colors  on  the  year.  What, 
then,  is  the  individual,  or  what  even  is  the  race  in  the  sublime 
recurrings  of  Time  ?  Years,  centuries,  cycles,  are  nothing  to 
these.     The  sun  that  measures  out  the  ages  of  our  planet  is  not 

a  second-hand  on  the  great  dial  of  the  universe. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Oh,  I  believe  that  there  is  no  a^aay;  that  no  love,  no  life,  goes 

ever  from  us ;  it  goes  as  He  went,  that   it  may  come  again, 

deeper  and  closer  and  surer,  and  be  with  us  always,  even  to  the 

end  of  the  world. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


LITERATURE.  385 


The  highest  Hfe  is  a  broken  cohimn  ;  the  fairest  Hfe,  a  tar- 
nished gem  ;  the  richest  life,  an  unripened  fruit. 

—  John  Humpstone. 


This  earth  will  be  looked  back  on  like  a  lowly  home,  and  this 
life  of  ours  be  remembered  like  a  short  apprenticeship  to  duty. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


This  is  life's  greatest  moment,  when  the  soul  unfolds  capac- 
ities which  reach  beyond  earth's  boundaries. 

—  I.  T.  Hecker. 


Life  !  we've  been  long  together 
Through  pleasant  and  through  cloudy  weather ; 
'Tis  hard  to  part  when  friends  are  dear, — 
Perhaps  'twill  cost  a  sigh,  a  tear. 
Then  steal  away,  give  little  warning, 
Choose  thine  own  time, 
Say  not  "  Good-night,"  but  in  some  brighter  clime. 
Bid  me  "  Good-morning." 

—  A.  L.  Barbauld. 


LITERATURE. 

A  beautiful  literature  springs  from  the  depth  and  fullness  of 
intellectual  and  moral  life,  from  an  energy  of  thought  and  feel- 
ing, to  which  nothing,  as  we  believe,  ministers  so  largely  as  en- 
lightened religion. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


God  be  thanked  for  books !  they  are  the  voices  of  the  distant 
and  the  dead,  and  make  us  heirs  of  the  spiritual  life  of  past  ages. 
Books  are  the  true  levelers.  They  give  to  all  who  will  faith- 
fully use  them  the  society,  the  spiritual  presence,  of  the  best  and 
greatest  of  our  race. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 
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386  LITTLE  THINGS. 


From  the  hour  of  the  invention  of  printing,  books,  and  not 
kings,  were  to  rule  the  world.  Weapons  forged  in  the  mind, 
keen-edged,  and  brighter  than  a  sunbeam,  were  to  supplant  the 
sword  and  battle-axe.  Books  !  lighthouses  built  on  the  sea  of 
time  !  Books  !  by  whose  sorcery  the  whole  pageantry  of  the 
world's  history  moves  in  solemn  procession  before  our  eyes. 
From  their  pages  great  souls  look  down  in  all  their  grandeur, 
undiramed  by  the  faults  and  follies  of  earthly  existence,  conse- 
crated by  time. 

—  E.  P.  Whipple. 


Be  less  concerned  about  the  number  of  books  you  read,  and 
more  about  the  good  use  you  make  of  them.  The  best  of  books 
is  the  Bible. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


The  great  standard  of  literature  as  to  purity  and  exactness  of 

style  is  the  Bible. 

—  Blair. 


Thou  mayest  as  well  expect  to  grow  stronger  by  always  eat- 
ing, as  wiser  by  always  reading. 

—  Fuller. 


It  is  right  for  you,  young  men,  to  enrich  yourselves  with  the 
■spoils  of  all  pure  literature;  but  he  who  would  make  a  favorite 
•of  a  bad  book,  simply  because  it  contains  a  few  beautiful  pas- 
sages, might  as  well  caress  the  hand  of  an  assassin   because  of 

the  jewelry  which  sparkles  on  his  fingers. 

—  Joseph  Parker. 


LITTLE   THINGS. 
Love's  secret  is  to  be  always  doing  things  for  God,  and  not 

to  mind  because  they  are  such  little  ones. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


LITTLE  THINGS.  387 


At  Toulon,  Napoleon,  looking  out  of  the  batteries,  drew  back 
a  step  to  let  some  one  take  his  place.  The  next  moment  the 
new  arrived  was  killed.  That  step  brought  the  French  Em- 
pire, and  made  possible  the  bloody  roll  of  its  victories  and  de- 
feats. The  rout  at  Waterloo  turned  on  a  shower  of  rain  hin- 
dering Grouchy's  advance.  The  resolution  of  a  moment,  with 
some  men,  has  been  the  turning-point  of  infinite  issues  to  a 
world. 

—  J.  C.  Geikie. 


One  of  the  best  things  in  the  gospel  of  Jesus  is  the  stress  it 
lays  on  small  things.  It  ascribes  more  value  to  quality  than  to 
quantity;  it  teaches  that  God  does  not  ask  how  much  we  do, 
but  how  we  do  it, 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


Let  us  be  content  to  do  little,  if  God  sets  us  at  little  tasks. 

It  is  but  pride  and  self-will  which   says,   "Give  me  something 

huge   to   fight, — and  I  should  enjoy  that  —  but  why  make  me 

sweep  the  dust  ?  " 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Most  people  would  succeed  in  small  things  if  they  were  not 

troubled  with  great  ambitions. 

—  Longfellow. 


The  reason  why  those  who  are  converted  to  Christ  often 
make  so  poor  a  work  of  rectifying  their  old  habits,  is  that  they 
lay  down  their  work  in  the  very  places  where  it  needs  to  be 
prosecuted  most  carefully,  that  is,  in  their  common  employ- 
ments.    They  do  not  live  to  God  in  that  which  is  least. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


All  the  mischiefs  which  befall  Christian  character,  and  de- 
stroy its  growth,  are  such  as  lie  in  the  ordinary  humble  duties 
of  life. 


388  LITTLE  THINGS. 


Let  us  try  always  to  feel  that  in  the  commonest  things  we 
may  hear  the  command  of  God,  that  the  trifles  of  each  day  — ■ 
trifles  though  they  be  —  vibrate  and  sound  with  the  reverbera- 
tion of  His  great  voice. 


The  best  things  are  nearest ;  light  in  your  eyes,  flowers  at 
your  feet,  duties  at  your  hand,  the  path  of  God  just  before  you. 
Then  do  not  grasp  at  the  stars,  but  do  life's  plain  common 
work  as  it  comes,  certain  that  daily  duties  and  daily  bread  are 
the  sweetest  things  of  life. 


For  honesty  is  before  honor  ;  and  though  man  must  write 
his  poems  in  sounding  words,  God's  poems  are  printed  best  in 
the  brave  and  silent  duties  of  common  life. 

—  Edward  Garrett. 


We  are  to  work  after  no  set  fashion  of  high  endeavor  ;  but 

to  walk  with  Jesus,  performing,  as  it   were,  a  ministry  on  foot, 

that  we  may  stop  at  the  humblest  matter,  and  prove  our  fidelity 

there. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


There  are  no  trifles  in  the  moral  universe  of  God.  Speak 
me  a  word  to-day  ;  —  it  shall  go  ringing  on  through  the  ages. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 

My  brother,  life  is  all  great.  Life  is  great  because  it  is  the 
aggregation  of  littles.  As  the  chalk  cliffs  that  rear  themselves 
hundreds  of  feet  above  the  crawling  sea  beneath,  are  all  made 
up  of  the  minute  skeletons  of  microscopic  animalculae ;  so  life, 
mighty  and  awful  as  having  eternal  consequences,  life  that 
towers  beetling  over  the  sea  of  eternity,  is  made  up  of  these 
minute  incidents,  of  these  trifling  duties,  of  these  small  tasks  ; 
and  if  thou  art  not  "  faithful  in  that  which  is  least,"  thou  art 
unfaithful  in  the  whole. 


LONGING  FOR  GOD.  389 

God,  who  prepares  His  work  for  the  ages,  accomplishes  it 
by  the  feeblest  instruments.  It  is  the  method  of  His  provi- 
dence to  produce  great  results  from  inconsiderable  means. 
The  law  which  prevades  the  kingdom  of  nature  is  discerned 
in  the  history  of  mankind.  Truth  makes  silent  progress,  like 
the  Avater  that  trickles  behind  the  rocks,  and  loosens  them  from 
the  mountain  on  which  they  rest.  Suddenly  the  hidden  opera- 
tion is  revealed,  and  a  single  day  suffices  to  lay  bare  the  work 
of  years,  if  not  of  ages. 

—  John  Lanahan. 


Duty  is  duty,  conscience  is  conscience,  right  is  right,  and 
wrong  is  wrong,  whatever  sized  type  they  may  be  printed  in. 
"  Large  "  or  "  small"  are  not  words  for  the  vocabulary  of  con- 
science. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


LONGING  FOR  GOD. 

If  we  would  gain  light  either  on  the  theory  or  the  practice 
of  religion:  i.  We  must  sincerely  desire  the  light.  2.  We 
must  use  the  light  we  already  have.  3.  We  must  patiently 
seek  light  in  the  double  way  of  prayer  and  rational  inquiry. 
Never,  as  long  as  the  world  stands,  will  any  religiously  benighted 
soul  thus  patiently  desire  and  pray  and  labor  for  the  break  of 
day,  without  at  last  seeing  the  eyelids  of  the  morn  unsealed, 
and  the  painfully  dusky  east  gradually  redden  into  the  sun. 

—  E.  F.  Burr. 


That  soul  is  on  the  certain  path  toward  light  which,  sincerely 
desiring  the  light,  constantly  submits  to  the  claims  of  the  light 
as  they  are  made  known.  That  soul  cannot  stay  in  darkness, 
any  more  than  a  flower  opening  its  petals  broadly  to  the  sun 
can  stay  in  shadow. 

—  Wayland  Hoyt. 


390  LONGING  FOR  GOD. 

There  is  no  long  interval  between  the  sense  of  thirst  and  the 

trickling  of  the  stream  over  the  parched  lip  ;  but  ever  it  is 

flowing,  flowing  past  us,  and  the  desire  is  but  the  opening  of 

the  lips  to  receive  the  limpid,  and  life-giving  waters.     No  one 

ever  desired  the  grace  of  God,  really  and  truly  desired  it,  but 

just  in  proportion  as  he  desired  it,  he  got  it  ;  just  in  proportion 

as  he  thirsted,  he  was  satisfied. 

—  Alexander  Maclarex. 


The  soul  that  rightly  receives  Christ  is  in  a  longing  condi- 
tion ;  never  did  the  hart  pant  for  the  water  brooks,  never  did 
the  hireling  desire  the  shadow,  never  did  a  condemned  person 
long  for  a  pardon  more  than  the  soul  longs  for  Christ. 

—  John  Flavel. 


A  living  man  must  have  a  living  God,  or  his  soul  will  perish 

in  the  midst  of  earthly  plenty,  and  will  thirst  and  die  whilst  the 

water  of  earthly  delights  is  running  all  around  him.     We  are 

made  to  need  J>ersons  not  things. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Our  yearnings  are  homesicknesses  for  heaven  ;  our  sighings 
are  for  God,  just  as  children  that  cry  themselves  asleep  away  from 
home,  and  sob  in  their  slumber,  know  not  that  they  sob  for  their 
parents.  The  soul's  inarticulate  moanings  are  the  affections 
yearning  for  the  Infinite,  and  having  no  one  to  tell  them  what  it 
is  that  ails  them. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Come  !  for  I  need  Thy  love. 

More  than  the  flower  the  dew,  or  grass  the  rain ; 
Come  like  Thy  Holy  Dove, 

And  let  me  in  Thy  sight  rejoice  to  live  again. 

—  Jones  Very. 


LOOKING  TO  JESUS.  391 


LOOKING  TO  JESUS. 

My  friends,  look  to  Christ,  and  not  to  yourselves.  That  is 
what  is  the  matter  with  a  great  many  sinners  ;  instead  of  look- 
ing to  Christ,  they  are  looking  at  the  bite  of  sin. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Those  who  are  weak  in  grace  dwell  more  upon  their  sins  than 
upon  the  Saviour  ;  more  upon  their  misery  than  upon  free  grace 
and  mercy  ;  more  upon  that  which  may  feed  their  fears  than 
upon  that  which  may  strengthen  their  faith  ;  more  upon  the 
cross  than  the  crown. 


One  of  Satan's  devices  to  keep  poor  souls  in  a  sad,  doubting, 
and  questioning  condition  is  causing  them  to  be  always  posing 
and  musing  upon  sin ;  to  mind  their  sins  more  than  their 
Saviour  :  yea,  so  to  mind  their  sins  as  to  forget  and  neglect 
their  Saviour.  Their  eyes  are  so  fixed  upon  their  disease  that 
they  cannot  see  their  remedy,  though  it  be  near  ;  and  they  do 
so  muse  upon  their  debts  that  they  have  neither  mind  nor  heart 
to  think  of  their  surety.  — Thomas  Brooks. 


How  can  we  in  practice  copy  Jesus  ?  How  do  you  write  a 
copy  in  your  copy-book  ?  By  constantly  looking  at  the  top  line, 
imitating  its  capital  letters,  small  letters,  up-strokes,  down- 
strokes,  evensfoJ>s.     So  be  always  "looking  unto  Jesus." 

—  Eugene  Stock. 


Alas !  alas !  for  the  coldness,  the  vagrancy,  and  the  infre- 
quency  of  the  thoughts  which  we  offer  to  Him  who  ever  thinks 
of  us,  and  whom  it  is  our  life  to  know  and  keep  in  our  hearts. 
Alas  !  alas  !  for  the  satire  on  Christian  life,  as  we  often  see  it, 
which  that  exhortation  and  its  accompanying  motives  contain, 
"  Holy  brethren,  partakers  of  the  heavenly  calling  —  consider  — 
Christ  Jesus." 


392  LOVE. 


LOVE. 


Love  is  the  emblem  of  eternity  ;  it  confounds  all  notion  of 
time ;  effaces  all  memory  of  a  beginning,  all  fear  of  an  end. 

—  Madame  de  SxAJiL. 


It  is  love  that  asks,  that   seeks,  that    knocks,  that  finds,  and 

that  is  faithful  to  what  it  finds. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Love  is  the  greatest  thing  that  God  can  give  us,  for  Himself 
is  love  ;  and  it  is  the  greatest  thing  we  can  give  to  God,  for  it 
will  also  give  ourselves,  and  carry  with  it  all  that  is  ours. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Love  is  the  crowning  grace  of  humanity,  the  holiest  right  of 

the  soul,  the  golden  link  which  binds  us  to  duty  and  truth,  the 

redeeming  principle  that  chiefly  reconciles  the  heart  to  life,  and 

is  prophetic  of  eternal  good. 

—  Petrarch. 


Love  is  a  passion 

Which  kindles  honor  into  noble  acts. 

—  Dryden. 


Joy  is  love  exulting  ;  peace  is  love  in  repose  ;  long-suffering 
is  love  on  trial ;  gentleness  is  love  in  society ;  goodness  is  love 
in  action  ;  faith  is  love  on  the  battle-field ;  meekness  is  love  at 
school ;  and  temperance  is  love  in  training. 


Humble  love, 
And  not  proud  reason,  keeps  the  door  of  heaven  ; 
Love  finds  admission,  where  proud  science  fails. 

—  Young. 


LOVE.  393 

Of  all  earthly  music  that  which  reaches  farthest  into  heaven 
is  the  music  of  a  loving  heart. 


Love  reflects  the  thing  beloved. 

—  Tennyson. 


Affection  is  the  broadest  basis  of  a  good  life. 

—  George  Eliot. 


Heaven's  harmony  is  universal  love. 

COWPER. 


Of  the  systems  above  us,  angelic  and  seraphic,  we  know  little  ; 
but  we  see  one  law,  simple,  efficient,  and  comprehensive  as  that 
of  gravitation, —  the  law  of  love, —  extending  its  sway  over  the 
whole  of  God's  dominions,  living  where  He  lives,  embracing 
every  moral  movement  in  its  universal  authority,  and  producing 
the  same  harmony,  where  it  is  obeyed  as  we  observe  in  the 
movements  of  nature. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


The  love  that  gushes  for  all  is  the  real  elixir  of  life  —  the 
fountain  of  bodily  longevity.  It  is  the  lack  of  this  that  always 
produces  the  feeling  of  age. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


God  be  thanked  that  there  are  some  in  the  world   to  whose 

hearts  the  barnacles  will  not  cling. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


The  incarnation  of  God  in  Christ  reveals  this  truth,  that  the 
love  that  seeks  and  saves  the  lost  is  a  love  that  suffers.  On  the 
one  side  there  is  loss,  Gethsemane  and  the  rugged  burden  of 
Golgotha,  but  on  the  other  is  gain,  the  gain  of  a  world's  redemp- 
tion. 

—  Wesley  R.  Davis. 


394  LOVE. 

If  there  is  any  thing  that  keeps  the  mind  open  to  angel  visits, 
and  repels  the  ministry  of  ill,  it  is  human  love. 

—  N.  P.  Willis. 


Love   would   master   self ;  and    having   made    the    mastery 
stretch  onward  and  upward  toward  infinitude. 

—  Donald  G.  Mitchell. 


Learn  the  new  commandment  of  the  Son  of  God.  Not  to 
love  merely,  but  to  love  as  He  loved.  Go  forth  in  this  spirit  to 
your  life-duties;  go  forth, — children  of  the  cross,  to  carry 
every  thing  before  you,  and  win  victories  for  God  by  the  con- 
quering power  of  a  love  like  His. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Ah,  how  skillful  grows  the  hand 
That  obeyeth  Love's  command  ! 
It  is  the  heart,  and  not  the  brain, 
That  to  the  highest  doth  attain. 
And  he  who  followeth  Love's  behest 
Far  excelleth  all  the  rest ! 

—  Longfellow. 

The  most  beautiful  sight  this  earth  affords  is  a  man  or  woman 
so  filled  with  love  that  duty  is  only  a  name,  and  its  perform- 
ance the  natural  outflow  and  expression  of  the  love  which  has 
become  the  central  principle  of  their  life. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Be  loving,  and  you  will  never  want  for  love ;  be  humble,  and 
you  will  never  want  for  guiding. 

—  D.  M.  Craik. 


I  have  often  had  occasion  to  observe,  that  a  warm  blunder- 
ing man  does  more  for  the  world  than  a  frigid  wise  man. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD.  395 


LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

Saviour  !  teach  me,  day  by  day, 
Love's  sweet  lesson  to  obey ; 
Sweeter  lesson  cannot  be, 
Loving  Him  who  first  loved  me. 


Charity  is  the  very  livery  of  Christ. 

—  Latimer. 


Love  is  a  golden  key  to  let  in  Christ,  and  a  strong  lock  to 
keep  out  others. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Divine  love  is  a  sacred  flower,  which  in  its  early  bud  is  hap- 
piness, and  in  its  full  bloom  is  heaven. 

—  E.  L.  Hervey. 


Christ  is  not  valued  at  all  unless  He  be  valued  above  all. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


The  true  measure  of  loving  God  is  to  love  Him  without 
measure. 

—  St.  Bernard. 


Between  God  and  man,  between  the  gospel  and  each  soul, 
the  interpreter  is  Love. 

—  Vinet. 


God  is  all  love,  and  the  more  we  are  like  Him  the  more  we 
shall  love  ;  the  trouble  is  not  in  the  quantity  but  the  quality  of 
our  love.  If  it  were  wholly  pure,  wholly  unselfish,  it  could 
not  be  too  deep  or  intense  ;  for  all  true  loving  lifts  us  to  a 
higher  plane,  bringing  us  nearer  to  God  and  the  eternal  good- 
ness. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


396  LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

To  be  like  Christ  in  His  love  is  far  more   than  to  be  like 

Hirn  in  His  knowlege,  if  we  were  forced  to  choose  between 

them  ;  but    they  harmonize  and  strengthen  each  other ;  more 

knowledge  will  help  us  to  love  more ;  and  more  love  help  us  to 

know  more. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Love  is  the  active,  working  principle  in  all  true  faith.  It  is 
its  very  soul,  without  which  it  is  dead.    "  Faith  works  by  love." 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 

But  how  shall  this  love  be  demonstrated  .''  After  what  method 
shall  it  be  expressed  ?  Not  by  secret  musings  alone  ;  not  by  the 
chanting  of  religious  sonnets  alone  ;  not  by  grateful  remem- 
brances of  Him  —  at  His  table  only  — but  by  deeds  of  love 
towards  those  who  in  a  real  sense  represent  Him,  because  par- 
takers of  that  nature,  our  common  humanity,  which  He  con- 
descended to  assume. 

—  William  Adams. 


Consider  that  as  a  principle  of  love  is  the  main  principle  in 
the  heart  of  a  real  Christian,  so  the  labor  of  love,  is  the  main 

business  of  the  Christian  life. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


True  love  goes  ever  straight  forward,  not  in  its  own  strength, 

but  esteeming  itself  as  nothing.     Then  indeed  we  are  truly 

happy.     The  cross  is  no  longer  a  cross  when  there  is  no  sc//  to 

suffer  under  it. 

—  Fenelon. 


A  mightier  love  for  the  Son  of  God,  to  overpower  and  sub- 
due and  lead  captive  these  wayward  and  truant  affections  of  the 

natural  heart  —  this  is  what  is  needed. 

—  A.  J.  Gordon. 


LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD.  397 

All  true  love  to  God  is  preceded  in  the  heart  by  these  two 

things  —  a  sense  of  sin,  and  an  assurance  of  pardon.     There  is 

no  love  possible — real,  deep,  genuine,  worthy  of  being  called 

love  of  God  —  which  does  not  start  with  the  belief  of  my  own 

transgression,  and  with  the  thankful  reception  of  forgiveness  in 

Christ. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  disciple  whom  Jesus  loved  leaned  on  His  bosom.     Dear 

friend,  where  are  you  ? 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


Her  heart  was  a  passion-flower,  bearing  within  it  the  crown 

of  thorns  and  the  cross  of  Christ, 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Dear  Saviour  !  we  are  Thine, 

By  everlasting  bands; 
Our  hearts,  our  souls,  we  would  resign 

Entirely  to  Thy  hands. 


—  Doddridge. 


Love  Christ,  and  then  the  eternity  in  the  heart  will  not  be  a 

great   aching  void,  but  will  be    filled  with  the    everlasting   life 

which  Christ  gives  and  is. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Give  me  a  baptism  of  glowing  love. 

Thy  power  and  presence  wheresoe'er  I  rove  ; 

And  my  last  prayer,  all  other  prayers  above  — 

Oh,  give  to  me 
More  of  Thyself,  Lord  Jesus  :  more  of  Thee  ! 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


Lord,    thou  knowest  all  things ;  Thou  knowest  that  I  love 
Thee  !  —  Bible.    - 


398  LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

Let  us  learn  how  the  love  of  Christ,  received  into  the  heart, 
triumphs  gradually  but  surely  over  all  sin,  transforms  character, 
turning  even  its  weakness  into  strength,  and  so,  from  the  depths 
of  transgression  and  the  very  gates  of  hell,  raises  men  to  God. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Prostrate,  see  Thy  cross  I  grasp, 
And  Thy  pierced  feet  I  clasp  ; 
Gracious  Jesus,  spurn  me  not  ; 
On  me,  with  compassion  fraught, 

Let  Thy  glances  fall. 
From  Thy  cross  of  agony, 
My  Beloved,  look  on  me  ; 
Turn  me  wholly  unto  Thee  ; 
"Be  thou  whole,"  say  openly  : 

"  I  forgive  thee  all." 

—  St.  Bernard. 


Christ  is  not  sweet  till  sin  be  made  bitter  to  us. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Lovest  thou  mc  ?   This  is  the  one  test  question  of  our  religion : 
for  he  that  loveth  is  born  of  God. 

—  William  Adams. 


Jesus,  Master,  I  am  Thine  ; 

Keep  me  faithful,  keep  me  near  ; 
Let  Thy  presence  in  me  shine 

All  my  homeward  way  to  cheer. 
Jesus,  at  Thy  feet  I  fall. 

Oh,  be  Thou  my  All  in  All. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


No  man  loveth  God  except  the  man  who  has  ^xstleanied thdX 
God  loves  him, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD.  399 


For  they  the  mind  of  Christ  discern 
Who  lean,  like  John,  upon  His  breast. 

—  J.  G.  VVhittier. 

How  shall  we  test  our  love  ? 

How  shall  the  real  be  known 

From  that  which  takes  its  form  ? 

Love  "  seeketh  not  her  own." 

—  Mrs.  M.  F.  Butts. 


None  know  how  to  prize  the  Saviour,  but  such  as  are  zealous 

in  pious  works  for  others. 

—  Lady  Huntingdon. 


Earthly  joy  can  take  but  a  bat-like  flight,  always  checked, 

always  limited,  in  dusk  and  darkness.      But  the  love  of  Christ 

breaks  through  the  vaulting,  and  leads  us  up  into  the  free  sky 

above,  expanding  to  the  very  throne  of  Jehovah,  and  drawing  us 

still  upward  to  the  infinite  heights  of  glory. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


Fade,  fade,  each  earthly  joy  ; 

Jesus  is  mine  ! 
Break  every  earthly  tie  ;  * 

Jesus  is  mine  ; 

Dark  is  the  wilderness  ; 

Earth  has  no  resting-place ; 

Jesus  alone  can  bless  ; 

Jesus  is  mine. 

—  Horatius  Bonar. 


Pure  love  is  in  the  will  alone  ;  it  is  no  sentimental  love,  for 

the  imagination  has  no  part  in  it  ;  it  loves,  if  we  may  so  express 

it,  without  feeling,  as  faith  believes  without  seeing. 

—  Fenelon. 


400  LOVE  TO  CHRIST  AND  GOD. 

Love  is  the  foundation  of  all  obedience.  Without  it, 
morality  degenerates  into  mere  casuistry.  Love  is  the  founda- 
tion of  all  knowledge.  Without  it  religion  degenerates  into  a 
chattering  about  Moses  and  doctrines  and  theories  ;  a  thing 
that  will-neither  kill  nor  make  alive,  that  never  gave  life  to  a 
single  soul  or  blessing  to  a  single  heart,  and  never  put  strength 
into  any  hand  in  the  conflict  and  strife  of  daily  life. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Mourning  after  an  absent  God  is  an  evidence  of  a  love  as 
strong,  as  rejoicing  in  a  present  one. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


To  love  God,  we  must  know  Him  as  manifested  in  Christ, — 
know  Him  as  incarnated  in  human  form,  —  know  Him  as  re- 
vealing His  holiness.  His  tenderness.  His  pity,  His  yearning 
love,  and  condescending  grace,  in  the  suffering,  glorified  Re- 
deemer. 


Oh  !  make  me  Thine  forever ; 

And  should  I  fainting  be, 
Lord  !  let  me  never,  never. 

Outlive  my  love  to  Thee  ! 

—  Gerhardt. 


When  a  man  is  told  that  the  whole  of  religion  and  morality 
is  summed  up  in  the  two  commandments,  to  love  God,  and  to 
love  our  neighbor,  he  is  ready  to  cry,  like  Charoba  in  Gebir,  at 
the  first  sight  of  the  sea,  "  Is  this  the  mighty  ocean  ?  is  this 
all .'  "  Yes,  all ;  but  how  small  a  part  of  it  do  your  eyes  sur- 
vey !  Only  trust  yourself  to  it;  launch  out  upon  it;  sail 
abroad  over  it ;  you  will  find  it  has  no  end  ;  it  will  carry  you 
round  the  world. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


MALICE.  401 

Apart  from  the  positive  woes  of  perdition,  an  eternity  of 
wretchedness  grows  from  the  want  of  love  to  Christ  as  nat- 
urally as  the  oak  grows  from  the  acorn,  or  the  harvest  from 
the  scattered  grain.  It  is  not  that  love  to  Christ  merits  heaven; 
it  does  far  better,  it  makes  heaven.  It  is,  as  it  were,  the  organ 
of  sensation  that  takes  note  of  heaven's  blessedness.  ^^ 

—  A.  A  Boyd. 


Nothing  satisfies  God  but  the  voluntary  sacrifice  of  love. 
The  pain  of  Christ  gave  God  no  pleasure  —  only  the  love  that 
was  tested  by  pain  —  the  love  of  perfect  obedience. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


How  shall  I  do  to  love  ?     Believe.     How  shall  I  do  to  be- 
lieve ?     Love. 

—  Leighton. 


M.. 

MALICE. 
We  are  strangers  to  Christian  love,  if  we  harbor  malice  or 
revenge  in  our  hearts  toward  any  of  our  fellow-creatures,  what- 
ever treatment  we  receive  at  their  hands. 

—  Charles  Backus. 


To  be  useful   as  a  Christian,  a  man  must  keep  himself  free 

from   all  malign   feelings,   from   all  bitterness  of   resentment. 

Even    righteous  indignation    must   not   drag  Love  from    her 

throne.     Over   all   the  soul's  passions   Love  must  preside  in 

serene  majesty.     The  Christian  worker  must  learn   (and  the 

sooner  the  better)  if  he  has  not  already  learned,  that  there  is 

something  better  for  a  Christian   than  to  plan   revenge,  and 

nurse  resentment,  and   call   down   fire  from  heaven,  even   on 

those  who  show  themselves  base  and  unworthy. 

—  Prof.  Ballard. 
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403  MAN. 

Beware  of  that  which  becomes  the  slanderer's  Hfe,  of  magni- 
fying every  speck  of  evil  and  closing  the  eye  to  goodness,  till  at 
last  men  arrive  at  the  state  in  which  generous,  universal  love 
(which  is  heaven)  becomes  impossible,  and  a  suspicious,  univer- 
sal hate  takes  possession  of  the  heart,  and  that  is  hell. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  is  no  cure  for  ossification  of  the  heart.  Oh,  that  mis- 
erable state,  when  to  the  jaundiced  eye  all  good  transforms  it- 
self into  evil,  and  the  very  instruments  of  health  become  the 
poison  of  disease. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


MAN. 
Man  is  the  crowning  of  history  and  the  realization  of  poetry, 
the  free  and  living  bond  which   unites  all  nature  to  that  God 
who  created  it  for  Himself. 

—  F.   GODET. 


Let  us  not  undervalue  the  dignity  of  human  nature.  Man, 
although  fallen,  still  retains  some  traces  of  his  primeval  glory 
and  excellence  —  broken  columns  of  a  celestial  temple,  mag- 
nificent, even  in  its  ruins. 

—  John  McC.  Holmes. 


How  poor,  how  rich,  how  abject,  how  august. 
How  complicate,  how  wonderful  is  man  ! 

—  Young. 


The  older  I  grow  —  and  I  now  stand  upon  the  brink  of  eter- 
nity —  the  more  comes  back  to  me  that  sentence  in  the  Catechism 
which  I  learned  when  a  child,  and  the  fuller  and  deeper  its  mean- 
ing becomes,  "What  is  the  chief  end  of  man?   To  glorify  God 

and  enjoy  Him  forever." 

—  Thomas  Carlyle. 


MAN.  403 

What  a  chimera  is  man  !  what  a  confused  chaos  !  what  a  sub- 
ject of  contradiction  !  a  professed  judge  of  all  things,  and  yet 
a  feeble  worm  of  the  earth!  the  great  depositary  and  guardian 
of  truth,  and  yet  a  mere  huddle  of  uncertainty !   the  glory  and 

the  scandal  of  the  universe  ! 

—  Pascal. 


Man  has  wants  deeper  than  can  be  supplied  by  wealth  or  na- 
ture or  domestic  affections.     His  great  relations  are  to  his  God 

and  to  eternity. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


In  that  vast  march,  the  van   forgets  the  rear;  the  individual 

is  lost ;  and  yet  the  multitude  is  many  individuals.      He  faints 

and  falls  and  dies ;  man  is  forgotten  ;  but  still  mankind  move 

on,  still  worlds  revolve,  and  the  will  of  God  is  done  in  earth  and 

heaven. 

—  G.  W.  Curtis. 


The  Divine  government  of  the  world  is  like  a  stream  that 
rolls  under  us  ;  men  are  only  as  bubbles  that  rise  on  its  sur- 
face ;  some  are  brighter  and  larger,  and  sparkle  longer  in  the 
sun  than  others  ;  but  all  must  break  ;  whilst  the  mighty  current 

rolls  on  in  its  wonted  majesty  ! 

—  David  Thomas. 


But  if,  indeed,  there  be  a  nobler  life  in  us  than  in  these 
strangely  moving  atoms  ;  if,  indeed,  there  is  an  eternal  differ- 
ence between  the  fire  which  inhabits  them,  and  that  which  ani- 
mates us, —  it  must  be  shown,  by  each  of  us  in  his  appointed 
place,  not  merely  in  the  patience,  but  in  the  activity  of  our 
hope,  not  merely  by  our  desire,  but  our  labor,  for  the  time  when 
the  dust  of  the  generations  of  men  shall  be  confirmed  for  foun- 
dations of  the  gates  of  the  city  of  God. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


404  MANHOOD. 


MANHOOD. 

Power  in  its  measure  and  degree  is  the  measure  of  manhood. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 

Give  us  an  age  in  which  Christian  manhood  shall  assert  itself 
as  the  highest  earthly  thing  and  the  noblest  earthly  estate.  Give 
us  an  age  that,  instead  of  whining  and  groaning  under  the  truth, 
shall  rejoice  in  the  truth.  Give  us  an  age  which,  lifted  into 
identity  with  its  highest  possessions,  shall  be  made  by  those 
possessions  patient,  pure,  heroic,  and  honorable. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Obedience,  submission,  discipline,  courage  —  these  are  among 

the  characteristics  which  make  a  man. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


The   man,  whom  I    call    deserving    the    name,  is  one  whose 
thoughts  and  exertions  are  for  others  rather  than  himself. 

—  Walter  Scott. 

The  finest  fruit  earth  holds  up  to  its  Maker  is  a  finished  man. 

—  Humboldt. 


A  Christian  is  the  gentlest  of  men  ;  but  then  he  is  a  man, 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


There  is  a  great  deal  more  correctness  of  thought  respecting 
manhood  in  bodily  things  than  in  moral  things.  For  men's 
ideas  of  manhood  shape  themselves  as  the  tower  and  spire  of 
cathedrals  do,  that  stand  broad  at  the  bottom,  but  grow  taper- 
ing as  they  rise,  and  end,  far  up,  in  the  finest  lines,  and  in  an 
evanishing  point.  Where  they  touch  the  ground  they  are  most, 
and  where  they  reach  to  the  heaven  they  are  least. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


MANLINESS.  405 


I  long  to  have  the  children  feel  that  there  is  nothing  in  this 
world  more  attractive,  more  earnestly  to  be  desired  than  man- 
hood in  Jesus  Christ. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


MANLINESS. 


The  manliness  of  Christian  love,  and  the  putting  away  from 
ourselves  of  all  fear,  because  we  are  "  perfected  in  love,"  is  one 
of  the  highest  lessons  that  the  gospel  teaches  us,  and  one  of  the 
greatest  things  which  the  gospel  gives  us. 

-Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  conscience  of  every  man  recognizes  courage  as  the  foun- 
dation of  manliness,  and  manliness  as  the  perfection  of  human 
character. 

—  Thomas  Hughes. 


In  proportion  as  man  gets  back  the  spirit  of  manliness,  which 
is  self-sacrifice,  affection,  loyalty  to  an  idea  beyond  himself,  a 
God  above  himself,  so  far  will  he  rise  above  circumstances,  and 
wield  them  at  his  will. 

=— Charles  Kingsley. 

"  The  work  of  men  "  —  and  what  is  that  ?  Well,  we  may  any 
of  us  know  very  quickly,  on  the  condition  of  being  wholly  ready 
to  do  it.  But  many  of  us  are  for  the  most  part  thinking,  not 
of  what  we  are  to  do,  but  of  what  we  are  to  get  ;  and  the  best 
of  us  are  sunk  into  the  sin  of  Ananias,  and  it  is  a  mortal  one  — 
we  want  to  keep  back  part  of  the  price  ;  and  we  continually  talk 
of  taking  up  our  cross,  as  if  the  only  harm  in  a  cross  was  the 
weight  of  it —  as  if  it  was  only  a  thing  to  be  carried,  instead  of 
to  be  —  crucified  upon.  "They  that  are  Christ's  have  crucified 
the  flesh,  with  the  affections  and  lusts." 

—  John  Ruskin. 


406  MEDITATION. 


MEDITATION. 

Meditation  is  the   soul's  perspective  glass,  whereby,  in  her 
long  remove,  she  discerneth  God,  as  if  He  were  nearer  at  hand. 

—  Owen  Feltham. 


Profound  meditation  in  solitude  and  silence  frequently  exalts 
the  mind  above  its  natural  tone,  fires  the  imagination,  and  pro- 
duces the  most  refined  and  sublime  conceptions.  The  soul 
then  tastes  the  purest  and  most  refined  delight,  and  almost  loses 
the  idea  of  existence  in  the  intellectual  pleasure  it  receives.  The 
mind  on  every  motion  darts  through  space  into  eternity  ;  and 
raised,  in  its  free  enjoyment  of  its  powers  by  its  own  enthusiasm, 
strengthens  itself  in  the  habitude  of  contemplating  the  noblest 
subjects,  and  of  adopting  the  most  heroic  pursuits. 

—  Zimmerman. 


It  is  not  he  that  reads  most,  but  he  that  meditates  most  on 
Divine  truth,  that  will  prove  the  choicest,  wisest,  strongest 
Christian. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


For  with  all  our  pretension  to  enlightenment,  are  we  not  now 
a  talking,  desultory,  rather  than  a  meditative  generation  ? 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


It  is  an  excellent  sign,  that  after  the  cares  and  labors  of  the 

day,  you  can  return  to  your  pious  exercises  and  meditations  with 

undiminished  attention. 

—  Hannah  More. 


Night  by  night  I  will  lie  down  and  sleep  in  the  thought  of 
God,  and  in  the  thought,  too,  that  my  waking  may  be  in  the 
bosom  of  the  Father  ;  and  some  time  it  will  be,  so  I  trust. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


MEEKNESS  — MEMORY.  407 


Avoid  all  refined  speculations  ;  confine  yourself  to  simple 
reflections,  and  recur  to  them  frequently.  Those  who  pass 
too  rapidly  from  one  truth  to  another  feed  their  curiosity  and 
restlessness  ;  they  even  distract  their  intellect  with  too  great  a 
multiplicity  of  views.  Give  every  truth  time  to  send  down  deep 
root  into  the  heart. 

—  Fenelon. 


MEEKNESS. 


Meekness  is  the  grace  which,  from  beneath  God's  footstool, 
lifts  up  a  candid  and  confiding  eye,  accepting  God's  smile  of 
Fatherly  affection,  and  adoring  those  perfections  which  it  can- 
not comprehend. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


He  was  oppressed,  and  He  was  afilicted,  yet  He  opened  not 
His  mouth  :  He  is  brought  as  a  lamb  to  the  slaughter,  and  as 
a  sheep  before  her  shearers  is  dumb,  so  He  openeth  not  His 
mouth. 

—  Bible. 


MEMORY. 

What  thousands  and  millions  of  recollections  there  must  be 
in  us  !  And  every  now  and  then  one  of  them  becomes  known 
to  us ;  and  it  shows  us  what  spiritual  depths  are  growing  in  us, 
what  mines  of  memory. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


The  pure  memories  given 
To  help  our  joy  on  earth,  when  earth  is  past, 
Shall  help  our  joy  in  heaven, 

—  Margaret  J.  Preston. 


'Tis  the  plague  of  devils  to  think  on  what  they  are. 


408  MERCY. 

Certainly  it  is  one  of  the  most  blessed  things  about  "  the  faith 
that  is  in  Christ  Jesus,"  that  it  makes  a  man  remember  his  own 
sinfulness  with  penitence,  not  with  pain  —  that  it  makes  the 
memory  of  past  transgressions  full  of  solemn  joy,  because  the 
memory  of /^7i-/ transgressions  but  brings  to  mind  the  depth  and 
rushing  fullness  of  that  river  of  love  which  has  swept  them  all 
away  as  far  as  the  east  is  from  the  west.  Oh,  my  brother,  you 
cannot  forget  your  sins  ;  but  it  lies  within  your  own  decision 
whether  the  remembrance  shall  be  thankfulness  and  blessedness, 
or  whether  it  shall  be  pain  and  loss  forever. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


My  friend,  picture  to  yourself  this  —  a  human  spirit  shut  up 
with  the  companionship  of  its  forgotten  and  dead  transgressions  ! 
There  is  a  resurrection  of  acts  as  well  as  of  bodies.  Think 
what  it  will  be  for  a  man  to  sit  surrounded  by  that  ghastly  com- 
pany, the  ghosts  of  his  own  sins !  and  as  each  forgotten  fault 
and  buried  badness  comes,  silent  and  sheeted,  into  that  awful 
society,  and  sits  itself  down  there,  think  of  him  greeting  each 
with  the  question,  "  Thou  too  ?  What !  are  ye  all  here  ?  Hast 
thou  found  me,  O  mine  enemy  ?"  and  from  each  bloodless, 
spectral  lip  there  tolls  out  the  answer,  the  knell  of  his  life,  "  I 
have  found  thee,  because  thou  hast  sold  thyself  to  work  evil  in 
the  sight  of  the  Lord." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


MERCY. 

Consider  this. 
That  in  the  course  of  justice  none  of  us 
Should  see  salvation  ;  we  do  pray  for  mercy  ; 
And  that  same  prayer  doth  teach  us  all  to  render 

The  deeds  of  mercy. 

—  Shakspeare. 


MERIT.  409 

Who  will  not  mercy  unto  others  show, 
How  can  he  mercy  ever  hope  to  have  ? 

—  Edmund  Spenser. 


God  loves  our  mercy  to  one  another  ;  but  not  upon  condi- 
tions at  variance  with  sanctity  to  Him. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Kind  hearts  are  here ;  yet  would  the  tenderest  one 
Have  limits  to  its  mercy  ;   God  has  none. 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


Mercy  to  him  that  shows  it  is  the  rule. 

~  Cow  PER. 


Nothing  humbles  and  breaks  the  heart  of  a  sinner  like  mercy 

and  love.     Souls  that  converse  much  with   sin  and  wrath,  may 

be  much  terrified  ;  but  souls  that  converse   much  with  grace 

and  mercy,  will  be  much  humbled. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


MERIT. 

He  who  thinks  to  be  justified  by  any  strength  or  merit  of  his 
own,  and  not  by  faith,  puts  himself  in  the  place  of  God. 

—  William  Farel. 


Merit  is  a  work  for  the  sake  of  which  Christ  gives  rewards. 
But  no  such  work  is  to  be  found,  for  Christ  gives  by  promise. 
Just  as  if  a  prince  should  say  to  me,  "  Come  to  me  in  my  castle, 
and  I  will  give  you  a  hundred  florins."  I  do  a  work,  certainly, 
in  going  to  the  castle,  but  the  gift  is  not  given  me  as  the  re- 
ward of  my  work  in  going,  but  because  the  prince  promised  it 

to  me. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


410  MILLENNIUM. 


MILLENNIUM. 
Thus  everywhere  and  always  God's  agents  —  small  and  great 
—  are  at  work,  unsettling  the  wrong,  establishing  the  right,  and 
carrying  the  links  of  Truth's  golden  chain  around  the  world. 


When,  O  crowned  Jesus  ;  when,  O  loving  Saviour  ;  when,  O 
patient  and  just  Judge  —  when  wilt  Thou  come  forth  from  Thy 
hiding,  and  change  tears  to  smiles,  and  groans  to  joys.?  When 
shall  that  choral  song  burst  forth,  sweeping  through  the  air,  and 
circling  about  Thy  throne,  which  shall  proclaim  the  redemp- 
tion of  the  world  to  the  Lord  God  ? 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Wearily  have  the  years  passed,  I  know  ;  wearily  to  the  pale 
watcher  on  the  hill  who  has  been  so  long  gazing  for  the  day- 
break ;  wearily  to  the  anxious  multitudes  who  have  been  waiting 
for  his  tidings  below.  Often  has  the  cry  gone  up  through  the 
darkness,  "  Watcher,  what  of  the  night .'"  and  often  has  the  dis- 
appointing answer  come,  "  It  is  night  still  ;  here  the  stars  are 
clear  above  me,  but  they  shine  afar,  and  yonder  the  clouds 
lower  heavily,  and  the  sad  night  winds  blow."  But  the  time  shall 
come,  and  perhaps  sooner  than  we  look  for  it,  when  the  coun- 
tenance of  that  pale  watcher  .shall  gather  into  intenser  expect- 
ancy, and  when  the  challenge  shall  be  given,  with  the  hopeful- 
ness of  a  nearer  vision,  "  Watcher,  what  of  the  night  ?"  and  the 
answer  will  come,  "  The  darkness  is  not  so  dense  as  it  was  ; 
there  are  faint  streaks  on  the  horizon's  verge;  mist  is  in  the 
valleys,  but  there  is  a  radiance  on  the  distant  hill.  It  comes 
nearer  —  that  promise  of  the  day.  The  clouds  roll  rapidly 
away,  and  they  are  fringed  with  amber  and  gold.  It  is,  it  is  the 
blest  sunlight  that  I  feel  around  me  —  Morning  !  It  is  morn- 
ing !" 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


MINISTERS.  411 


The  glory  of  the   Lord   shall  be  revealed,  and  all  flesh  shall 
see  it  together ;  for  the  mouth  of  the  Lord  hath  spoken  it. 

—  Bible. 


MINISTERS. 
Our  high  mission,  our  noble  calling,  is  to  build  up  souls,  to 
perfect  the  Christian  life,  and  to  make  manhood  acceptable  to 
God,  and  radiant  in  the  sight  of  all  men. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Your  great  employment  is   to  bring  the  individual  souls  of 
men  to  Christ, 

—  E.  N.  Kirk, 


The  minister  is  to  be  a  live  man,  a  real  man,  a  true  man,  a 
simple  man,  great  in  his  love,  great  in  his  life,  great  in  his  work, 
great  in  his  simplicity,  great  in  his  gentleness. 

—  John  Hall. 


I  do  not  envy  a  clergyman's  life  as  an  easy  life,  nor  do  I  envy 
the  clergyman  who  makes  it  an  easy  life. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


Be  ashamed  of  nothing  but  sin. 

—  Methodist  Discipline. 


A  true  minister  is  a  man  whose  manhood  itself  is  a  strong 
and  influential  argument  with  his  people.  He  lives  in  such 
relations  with  God,  and  in  such  genuine  sympathy  with  man, 
that  it  is  a  pleasure  to  be  under  the  unconscious  influence  of 
such  a  mind. 

It  is  not  the  way  to  convert  a  sinner  to  knock  him  down  first 
and  then  reason  with  him. 

—  S.  Iren^us  Prime. 


413  MINISTERS. 


Learn  in  Christ  how  possible  it  is  to  be  strong  and  mild,  to 
blend  in  fullest  harmony  the  perfection  of  all  that  is  noble, 
lofty,  generous  in  the  soldier's  ardor  of  heroic  devotion  ;  and 
of  all  that  is  calm,  still,  compassionate,  tender  in  the  priest's 
waiting  before  God  and  mediation  among  men. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Thou  must  be  true  thyself, 

If  thou  the  truth  wouldst  teach  ; 

Thy  soul  must  overflow,  if  thou 
Another's  soul  wouldst  reach  ; 

It  needs  an  overflowing  heart 
To  give  the  lips  full  speech. 

Think  truly,  and  thy  thoughts 
Shall  the  world's  famine  feed , 

Speak  truly,  and  each  word  of  thine 
Shall  be  a  fruitful  seed  ; 

Live  truly,  and  thy  life  shall  be 
A  great  and  noble  creed. 


If  you  would  lift  me,  you  must  be  on  higher  ground. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


Only  a  loving  heart  can  effectually  present  a  loving  gospel  ; 
only  one  who  himself  loves  sinners,  and  is  willing  to  deny  him- 
self for  their  sakes,  can  faithfully  and  persuasively  represent 
Him  who  loved  and  gave  Himself  for  sinners. 

—  Sunday-School  Times. 


"  He  commanded  that  something  should  be  given  her  to 
eat."  Has  anybody's  daughter  or  any  body's  son  been  raised 
from  spiritual  death  in  your  congregation,  or  in  your  class  re- 
cently ?     If  so,  give  the  revived  soul  something  to  eat. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


MINISTERS.  413 


The  minister,  who  would  be  most  Hke  the  Master,  must  go 
and,  like  Him,  lay  the  warm,  kindly  hand  on  the  leper,  the 
diseased,  the  wretched.  He  must  touch  the  blind  eyes  with 
something  from  himself.  The  tears  must  be  in  his  own  eyes 
over  the  dead  who  are  to  be  raised  to  spiritual  life.  Jesus  is 
our  great  exemplar. 

—  John  Hall. 

That  pastor  effects  the  most  in  the  end  who  comes  into 
closest  personal  contact  with  his  charge.  No  amount  of  or- 
ganizing, no  skill  in  creating  machinery  and  manipulating 
"committees"  is  a  substitute  for  this.  Who  feels  the  power 
of  a  tear  in  the  eye  of  a  committee  ? 

—  John  Hall. 

I  find  on  inquiring  among  successful  pastors,  successful  in 
the  sense  of  winning  men  to  Christ  in  profession,  that  they  de- 
pend largely  on  personal  contact. 

—  D.  A.    GOODSELL. 


As  preachers  we  are  to  promote  Christian  culture,  by  bring- 
ing the  dead  branches  to  the  living  Vine,  that,  grafted  into  it, 
without  a  rag  of  human  righteousness  between,  the  life  of 
Him  may  enter  them  ;  and  by  keeping  them,  as  far  as  teach- 
ing and  example  can  do  it,  abiding  in  Him,  that  they  may  bring 
forth  fruit. 

—  John  Hall. 


Every  discourse  of  a  true  minister  has  an  influence  for  good 
or  evil,  and  that  for  eternity.  Every  word  tells  for  the  ever- 
lasting rise  or  fall,  weal  or  woe,  life  or  death,  of  souls.  In 
every  sentence  we  touch  chords  that  shall  send  their  vibrations 
through  the  endless  future  ;  that  shall  peal  in  the  thunder  of  a 
guilty  conscience,  or  resound  in  the  music  of  a  purified 
spirit. 


414  MINISTERS. 


You  want  to  be  radiant,  eloquent  ministers,  ministers  of 
great  influence  and  success.  Do  you  want  to  sit  on  the  Lord's 
right  hand  and  on  His  left  ?  Then  give  Him  your  heart,  so 
that  in  humility,  in  gentleness,  in  unfailing  sweetness,  in 
patience  under  all  circumstances,  you  shall  be  like  Him. 


He  that  would  speak  Divine  things  in  a  language  which  living 
men  of  to-day  can  comprehend,  must  keep  up  with  the  re- 
searches and  discoveries  of  men  who  study  nature,  and  put  her 
words  into  the  speech  of  the  present. 

—  T-  H.  Vincent. 


One  great  want  of  the  times  is  a  commanding  ministry  —  a 
ministry  of  a  piety  at  once  sober  and  earnest,  and  of  mightiest 
moral  power.  Give  us  these  men,  "  full  of  faith  and  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,"  who  will  proclaim  old  truths  with  new  energy, 
not  cumbering  them  with  massive  drapery  nor  hiding  them  be- 
neath piles  of  rubbish.  Give  us  these  men  !  men  of  sound 
speech,  who  will  preach  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,  not  with  fal- 
tering tongue  and  averted  eye,  as  if  the  mind  blushed  at  its 
own  credulity  —  not  distilling  into  it  an  essence  so  subtle  and 
so  speedily  decomposed  that  a  chemical  analysis  alone  can  de- 
tect the  faint  odor  Avhich  tells  it  has  been  there  —  but  who  will 
preach  it  apostlewise,  that  is,  "first  of  all,"  at  once  a  principle 
shrined  in  the  heart  and  a  motive  mighty  in  the  life  —  the 
source  of  all  morals,  and  the  inspiration  of  all  charity  —  the 
sanctifier  of  every  relationship,  and  the  sweetener  of  every  toil. 
Give  us  these  men!  men  of  zeal  untiring  —  whose  hearts  of 
constancy  quail  not  although  dull  men  sneer,  and  proud  men 
scorn,  and  timid  men  blush,  and  cautious  men  deprecate,  and 
wicked  men  revile. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


Many  young  ministers  are  poor  men,  but  that  is  no  reason, 
gentlemen,  why  you  should  be  poor  ministers. 


MINISTERS.  415 


What  is  ministerial  success  ?  Crowded  churches,  full  aisles, 
attentive  congregations,  the  approval  of  the  religious  world, 
much  impression  produced  ?  Elijah  thought  so  ;  and  when  he 
discovered  his  mistake,  and  found  out  that  the  Carmel  applause 
subsided  into  hideous  stillness,  his  heart  well-nigh  broke  with 
disappointment.  Ministerial  success  lies  in  altered  lives,  and 
obedient,  humble  hearts,  unseen  worth  recognized  in  the  judg- 
ment-day. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 


Do  not  fear  the  alleged  "current  of  opinion."  It  was  thus 
that  Edwards,  Brainard,  Dwight,  and  Payson,  preached,  and 
the  noblest  and  most  enduring  things  in  New  England  were 
the  result.  If  the  sentiment  of  the  time  is  against  their  way, 
so  much  the  worse  for  the  sentiment !  Paul  and  Peter  and 
John  and  James  so  "  reproved  and  rebuked  and  exhorted,  with 
all  long-suffering  and  doctrine."  —  John  Hall. 


This  is  the  ministry  and  its  work  —  not  to  drill  hearts  and 
minds  and  consciences  into  right  forms  of  thought  and  mental 
postures,  but  to  guide  to  the  living  God  who  speaks. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


We  are  to  be  neither  book-worms  nor  male  gossips,  but 
Christian  gentlemen,  with  a  side  towards  mental  culture,  and  a 
side  to  practical  life.  We  are  to  learn  how  to  talk  to  the  people 
by  being  with  the  people,  and  we  are  to  learn  how  to  raise  them 
up  by  raising  ourselves.  We  are  never  to  forget  that  ministry 
is  service,  not  mastery.  *'  Ourselves  your  servants  for  Jesus' 
sake." 

-D.    A.   GOODSELL. 


There  are  passages  of  the  Bible  that  are  soiled  forever  by  the 
touches  of  the  hands  of  ministers  who  delight  in  the  cheap 
jokes  they  have  left  behind  them.  —  Phillips  Brooks. 


416  MIRACLES. 


MIRACLES. 

A  miracle  is  a  supernatural  event,  whose  antecedent  forces 
are  beyond  our  finite  vision,  whose  design  is  the  display  of  al- 
mighty power  for  the  accomplishment  of  almighty  purposes, 
and  whose  immediate  result,  as  regards  man,  is  his  recognition 
of  God  as  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  all  things,  and  of  His  will  as 
the  only  supreme  law. 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


The  miracles  of  earth  are  the  laws  of  heaven. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


When  I  look  to  my  guiltiness,  I  see  that  my  salvation  is  one 
of  our  Saviour's  greatest  miracles,  either  in  heaven  or  earth. 

—  Rutherford. 


Once  a  single  word  of  the  Saviour  suddenly  calmed  a 
furiously  agitated  sea  ;  one  look  of  Him  at  us,  and  of  ours 
towards  Him  ought  always  to  perform  the  same  miracle  within 


us. 


It  was  a  great  thing  to  open  the  eyes  of  a  blind  man,  but  it 

is  a  greater  thing  to  open   the  eyes  of  a  blind  soul.       It  was  a 

great  thing  to  bring  a  dead  body  back  to  life,  but  it  is  a  greater 

miracle  to  bring  a  soul  dead  in  sin  back  to  life.     My  friends, 

have  you  ever   felt  the  touch  of  this  Jesus  ?    Oh  !  that  we  all 

might  feel  His  touch,  that  we  might  look  and  be   healed  and 

live. 

—  A.  E.  Kittredge. 


For  when  self-seeking  turns  to  love. 
Which  knows  not  mine  and  thine. 

The  miracle  again  is  wrought, 
And  water  changed  to  wine. 


MISSIONS.  417 


MISSIONS. 

Men  may  glorify  the  fatherhood  of  God,  and  the  brotherhood 
of  man,  but  such  beliefs  will  never  send  missionaries  to  face  the 
malarial  belt  of  Africa,  or  the  cannibals  of  the  South  Pacific. 
Only  such  tremendous  truths  as  gather  around  Sinai  and  Cal- 
vary —  man's  redemption,  life  and  death,  heaven  and  hell —  can 
inspire  to  such  undertakings. 

Palestine  was  the  West  Point  and  Annapolis  for  the  world. 
In  that  little  country  God  was  training  up  a  people  out  of  whom, 
when  the  fullness  of  the  time  should  come,  His  gospel  cadets 
should  emerge,  fitted  by  all  the  training  of  all  their  national 
history  for  going  out  among  the  heathen  and  proclaiming  the 
unsearchable  riches  of  Christ. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Evangelism  is  not  merely  a  work  of  love.  It  is  the  sheer  law 
of  self-preservation.  The  heathenism  which  is  creeping  along 
the  fences  of  society  is  scattering  its  seeds  on  both  sides.  As  we 
love  our  neighbor,  we  must  try  to  do  him  good;  but  if  we  love 
only  ourselves  and  our  homes,  we  must  be  at  work  to  make  the 
world  better.  If  Christians  do  not  make  the  world  better,  the 
world  will  surely  make  the  church  worse. 


A  man  ?nay  make  his  way  across  the  Atlantic  in  a  skiff,  for 
all  I  know;  but  if  you  are  intending  to  cross  the  sea,  take  my 
advice,  and  secure  passage  in  a  first-class  steamer,  and  you 
will  be  more  likely  to  get  there.  So  it  is  with  these  heathen 
millions.  I  do  not  know  but  some  of  them  may  drift,  and  we 
shall  find  them  in  the  city  of  God.  But  I  do  know  that  by  giv- 
ing them  the  gospel,  by  building  up  and  supporting  among 
them  a  Christian  church,  we  shall  greatly  multiply  their  chances 

for  heaven. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler. 
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418  MISSIONS. 


Every  impulse  and  stroke  of  missionary  power  on  earth  is 
from  the  heart  of  Christ.  He  sows,  and  there  is  a  harvest.  He 
touches  nations,  and  there  arises  a  brotherhood,  not  only  civil- 
ized by  His  light,  but  sanctified  by  His  love.  The  isles  of  the 
ocean  wait  for  Him.  He  spreads  His  net  and  gathers  of  every 
kind,  and  lo  !  the  burden  of  the  sea  is  not  only  fishes,  but  fish- 
ermen, who  go  and  gather  and  come  again.  If  there  are  ac- 
tivity, free  giving,  ready  going,  a  full  treasury,  able  men  who 
say,  "Here  am  I,  send  me,"  it  is  because  through  all  the  organ- 
ization Christ  lives,  and  His  personal  Spirit  works.  There  is 
no  other  possible  spring  for  that  enthusiasm. 

—  Bishop    Huntington. 


The  movement  has  indeed  been  slow,  and  not  such  as  man 
would  have  expected  ;  but  it  has  been  analogous  to  the  great 
movements  of  God  in  His  providence  and  in  His  works.  So, 
if  we  may  credit  the  geologists,  has  this  earth  reached  its  pres- 
ent state.  So  have  moved  on  the  great  empires.  So  retribution 
follows  crime.  So  rise  the  tides.  So  grows  the  tree  with  long 
intervals  of  repose  and  apparent  death.  So  comes  on  the 
spring,  with  battling  elements  and  frequent  reverses,  with  snow- 
banks and  violets,  and,  if  we  had  no  experience,  we  might  be 
doubtful  what  the  end  would  be.  But  we  know  that  back  of 
all  this,  beyond  these  fluctuations,  away  in  the  serene  heavens, 
the  sun  is  moving  steadily  on  ;  that  these  very  agitations  of 
the  elements  and  seeming  reverses,  are  not  only  the  sign,  but 
the  result  of  his  approach,  and  that  the  full  warmth  and  radi- 
ance of  the  summer  noontide  are  sure  to  come.  So,  O  Divine 
Redeemer,  Sun  of  Righteousness,  come  Thou  !  So  will  He 
come.  It  may  be  through  clouds  and  darkness  and  tempest ; 
but  the  heaven  where  He  is,  is  serene  ;  He  is  "  traveling  in 
the  greatness  of  His  strength  ;  "  and  as  surely  as  the  throne  of 
■God  abides,  we  know  He  shall  yet  reach  the  height  and  splen- 
dor of  the  highest  noon,  and  that  the  light  of  millennial  glory 
shall  yet  flood  the  earth.  — Mark  Hopkins. 


MORALITY.  419 


On  the  American  Continent,  what  a  wonderful  amalgama- 
tion of  races  we  have  witnessed,  how  wonderfully  they  have 
been  fused  into  that  one  American  people  !  —  type  and  earnest 
of  a  larger  fusion  which  Christianity  will  yet  accomplish,  when, 
by  its  blessed  power,  all  tribes  and  tongues  and  races  shall  be- 
come one  holy  family.  The  present  popularity  of  beneficences 
promises  well  for  the  missionary  cause  in  the  future.  Men's 
hearts  are  undergoing  a  process  of  enlargement.  Their  sym- 
pathies are  taking  a  wider  scope.  The  world  is  getting  closer, 
smaller,  quite  a  compact  affair.     The  world  for  Christ  will  yet 

be  realized. 

—  David  Livingstone. 


MORALITY. 

Morality  rests  upon  a  sense  of  obligation  ;  and  obligation  has 

no  meaning  except  as  implying  a  Divine  command,  without 

which  it  would  cease  to  be. 

—  J.  A.  Froude. 


Morality  without  religion  is  only  a  kind  of  dead  reckoning, 

—  an  endeavor  to  find  our  place  on  a  cloudy  sea  by  measuring 

the  distance  we  have  run,  but  without  any  observation  of  the 

heavenly  bodies. 

—  Longfellow. 


All  systems  of  morality  are  fine.  The  gospel  alone  has  ex- 
hibited a  complete  assemblage  of  the  principles  of  morality, 
divested  of  all  absurdity.  It  is  not  composed,  like  your  creed, 
of  a  few  common-place  sentences  put  into  bad  verse.  Do  you 
wish  to  see  that  which  is  really  sublime  ?     Repeat  the  Lord's 

Prayer. 

—  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


To   give  a  man  a  full  knowledge  of  true   morality,  I  would 
send  him  to  no  other  book  than  the  New  Testament. 


420  MOTIVE— MURMURING. 


MOTIVE. 

It  is  not  the  motive,  properly  speaking,  that  determines  the 
working  of  the  will ;  but  it  is  the  will  that  imparts  strength  to 
the  motive.  As  Coleridge  says:  "It  is  the  man  that  makes 
the  motive,  and  not  the  motive  the  man." 

—  James  McCosh. 


In  the  eye  of  that  Supreme  Being  to  whom  our  whole  in- 
ternal frame  is  uncovered,  dispositions  hold  the  place  of  actions. 

—  Blair. 


In  general,  we  do  well  to  let  an  opponent's  motives  alone. 
We  are  seldom  just  to  them.  Our  own  motives  on  such  occa- 
sions are  often  worse  than  those  we  assail. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


MURMURING. 

I  have  noticed   this,  that  when  a  man  is  full  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  he  is  the  very  last  man  to  be  complaining  of  other  people. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Nothing  is  easier  than  fault-finding.  No  talent,  no  self-de- 
nial, no  brains,  no  character,  is  required  to  set  up  in  the 
grumbling  business.  But  those  that  are  moved  by  a  genuine 
desire  to  do  good  have  little  time  for  murmuring  or  complaint. 

—  Robert  West. 


Some  people  are  never  content  with  their  lot,  let  what  will 
happen.  Clouds  and  darkness  are  over  their  heads,  alike 
whether  it  rain  or  shine.  To  them  every  incident  is  an  acci- 
dent, and  every  accident  a  calamity. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


MYSTERY.  421 


From  mad  dogs  and  grumbling  professors  may  we  all  be  de- 
livered, and  may  we  never  take  the  complaint  from  either  of 
them.  — C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


MYSTERY 
Whoever  believes  in  a  God  at  all,  believes  in  an  infinite  mys- 
tery ;  and  if   the  existence  of  God  is  such  an  infinite  mystery, 
we  can  very  well  expect  and  afford  to  have  many  of  His  ways 
mysterious  to  us. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


There  is  no  religion  without  mysteries.     God  Himself  is  the 
great  secret  of  Nature. 

—  Chateaubriand. 


Where  is  the  subject  that  does  not  branch  out  into  infinity  ? 


For  every  grain  of  sand  is  a  mystery ;  so  is  every  daisy  in 
summer,  and  so  is  every  snow-flake  in  winter.  Both  upwards 
and  downwards,  and  all  around  us,  science  and  speculation 
pass  into  mystery  at  last. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Augustine,  the  father  of  theologians,  was  walking  on  the 
ocean  shore  and  pondering  over  the  truth,  "  three  distinct  per- 
sons, not  separate,  but  distinct;  and  yet  but  one  God  ;  "  and 
he  came  upon  a  little  boy  that  was  playing  with  a  colored  sea- 
shell,  scooping  a  hole  in  the  sand,  and  then  going  down  to  the 
waves  and  getting  his  shell  full  of  water  and  putting  it  into  the 
hole.  Augustine  said,  "  What  are  you  doing,  my  little  fellow  ?  " 
The  boy  replied,  "  I  am  going  to  pour  the  sea  into  that  hole." 
"Ah,"  said  Augustine,  "  that  is  what  I  have  been  attempting. 
Standing  at  the  ocean  of  infinity,  I  have  attempted  to  grasp  it 
with  my  finite  mind." 

—  Joseph  Dare. 


422  MYSTERY. 

Were  there  no  mysteries  in  the  Bible,  we  should  doubt  its 
being  the  transcript  of  the  Eternal  Mind.  The  "mystery  of 
godliness"  adapts  it  to  our  ruined  race.  Those  mysteries  of 
the  Bible  are  like  the  mountains  of  the  world  ;  they  give  grand- 
eur to  the  landscape  and  fertility  to  the  soil. 

—  Joseph  Dare. 


The  mysteries  of  the  Bible  should  teach  us,  at  one  and  the 
same  time,  our  nothingness  and  our  greatness  ;  producing  hu- 
mility, and  animating  hope.  I  bow  before  these  mysteries.  I 
knew  that  I  should  find  them,  and  I  pretend  not  to  remove  them. 
But  whilst  I  thus  prostrate  myself,  it  is  with  deep  gladness  and 
exultation  of  spirit.  God  would  not  have  hinted  the  mystery, 
had  He  not  hereafter  designed  to  explain  it.  And,  therefore, 
are  my  thoughts  on  a  far-off  home,  and  rich  things  are  around 
me,  and  the  voices  of  many  harpers,  and  the  shinings  of  bright 
constellations,  and  the  clusters  of  the  cherub  and  the  seraph  ; 
and  a  whisper,  which  seems  not  of  this  earth,  is  circulating 
through  the  soul,  "  Now  we  see  through  a  glass  darkly,  but 
then  face  to  face  ;  now  I  know  in  part,  but  then  shall  I  know 
even  as  also  I  am  known." 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


The  Bible  tells  me  explicitly  that  Christ  was  God  ;  and  it  tells 
me,  as  explicitly  that  Christ  was  man.  It  does  not  go  on  to  state 
the  modus  or  manner  of  the  union.  I  stop,  therefore,  where  the 
Bible  stops.  I  bow  before  a  God-man  as  my  Mediator,  but  I 
own  as  inscrutable  the  mysteries  of  His  person. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


In  viewing  the  scheme  of  redemption,  I  seem  like  one  view- 
ing a  vast  and  complicated  machine  of  exquisite  contrivance  ; 
what  I  comprehend  of  it  is  wonderful,  what  I  do  not,  is,  per- 
haps, more  so  still. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


MYSTERY.  423 

Providence  is  a  greater  mystery  than  revelation. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


That  great  chain  of  causes,  which,  linking  one  to  another, 
even  to  the  throne  of  God  Himself,  can  never  be  unraveled  by 
any  industry  of  ours.  —  Burke. 


Ah,  what  a  life  is  theirs  who  live  in  Christ  ; 

How  vast  the  mystery  ! 
Reaching  in  height  to  heaven,  and  in  its  depth 

The  unfathomed  sea  ! 


We  know,  and  we  feel,  that  the  vast  business  of  our  redemp- 
tion, arranged  in  the  councils  of  the  far-back  eternity,  and  acted 
out  amid  the  wonderings  and  throbbings  of  the  universe,  could 
not  have  been  that  stupendous  transaction  which  gave  God 
glory  by  giving  sinners  safety,  if  the  inspired  account  brought 
its  dimensions  within  the  compass  of  a  human  arithmetic,  or 
defined  its  issues  by  the  lines  of  a  human  demarcation. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


The  nature  of  Christ  is,  I  grant  it,  from  one  end  to  another, 
a  web  of  mysteries  ;  but  this  mysteriousness  does  not  corre- 
spond to  the  difficulties  which  all  existence  contains.  Let  it  be 
rejected,  and  the  whole  world  is  an  enigma  ;  let  it  be  accepted, 
and  we  possess   a  wonderful  explanation  of  the  history  of  man. 

—  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


Between  the  mysteries  of  death  and  life 

Thou  standest,  loving,  guiding, —  not  explaining; 

We  ask,  and  Thou  art  silent, —  yet  we  gaze. 

And  our  charmed  hearts  forget  their  drear  complaining ; 

No  crushing  fate,  no  stony  destiny ! 

Thou  Lamb  that  hast  been  slain,  we  rest  in  Thee. 

—  H.  B.  Stowe. 


424  MYSTERY. 


Can  any  thing  be  more  mysterious  than  the  union  of  soul  and 
body,  unless  it  be  the  still  greater  mystery,  which  some  have 
professed  to  believe,  that  matter  can  be  so  organized  as  to  pro- 
duce the  amazing  intellectual  results  which  we  witness  in  man  ? 
In  believing  our  own  existence  we  believe  a  mystery  as  great  as 

any  that  the  Christian  religion  presents. 

—  William  Wirt. 


At  some  turning  point  of  your  life,  when  some  great  joy 
flashed,  or  some  great  shadow  darkened  upon  you  all  at  once  ; 
when  some  crisis  that  wanted  an  instantaneous  decision  ap- 
peared,—  why,  what  regions  of  thought,  purpose,  plan,  resolu- 
tion, what  wildernesses  of  desolate  sorrow,  and  what  paradises 
of  blooming  gladness,  your  soul  has  gone  through  in  a  moment. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  live  in  the  midst  of  infinite  existence  ;  and  widely  as  we 
can  see,  and  vastly  as  we  have  discovered,  we  have  but  crossed 
the  threshold,  we  have  but  entered  the  vestibule  of  the  Creator's 
temple.  In  this  temple  there  is  an  everlasting  worship  of  life, 
an  anthem  of  many  choruses,  a  hymn  of  incense  that  goes  up 
forever. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


We  are  children  shut  up  as  yet  in  the  narrow  hollow  of  our 
native  valley,  with  all  the  universe,  outside  the  closely  engird- 
ling hills,  for  a  great  wonderland,  of  which  we  dream  childish 
dreams,  as  the  light  of  morning  or  evening  kindles  from  beyond. 
"Laws  of  Nature" — what  dost  thou  know  of  them,  O  man.' 
Look  out  on  the  great  miracles  of  nature,  blooming  in  flowers 
and  stars,  away  to  the  gates  of  the  city  of  God,  what  dost  thou 

know  oi  its  laws  and  wonders  .'' 

—  J.  C.  Geikie. 


Lo,  these  are  parts  of  His  ways ;  but  how  little  a  portion  is 
heard  of  Him.  — Bible. 


NATIONAL.  425 


We  comprehend  the  earth  only  when  we  have  known  heaven. 
Without  the  spiritual  world  the  material  world  is  a  dishearten- 
ing enigma. 

—  Joseph  Joubert. 


N. 

NATIONAL 

With  the  exception  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  a  privilege 
not  required  under  the  Jewish  government,  simply  because  it 
did  not  allow  of  imprisonment,  there  is  not  a  single  feature  of 
free  government  that  is  not  distinctly  developed  in  the  Bible. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


It  is  when  the  hour  of  conflict  is  over  that  history  comes  to  a 
right  understanding  of  the  strife,  and  is  ready  to  exclaim,  "  Lo, 
God  is  here,  and  we  knew  Him  not  !" 

—  George  Bancroft. 


No  advanced  thought,  no  mystical  philosophy,  no  glittering 
abstractions,  no  swelling  phrases  about  freedom,  not  even 
science  with  its  marvelous  inventions  and  discoveries,  can  help 
us  much  in  sustaining  this  republic  ;  still  less  can  godless 
theories  of  creation,  or  any  infidel  attempt  to  rule  out  the  Re- 
deemer from  His  rightful  supremacy  in  our  hearts,  afford  any 
hope  of  security.     That  way  lies  despair. 

—  Robert  C.  Winthrop. 


In  the  study  of  such  events  we  do  well  to  remember  that  the 
hand  once  nailed  to  the  tree  holds  the  chain  that  binds  the  past, 
the  present,  and  the  future.  His  way  is  in  the  sea,  His  path  is 
in  the  great  waters,  and  His  footsteps  are  not  known.  But  wis- 
dom marks  His  plans  ;  truth  and  justice  attend  their  develop- 
ment, and  out  of  seeming  evil  He  brings  triumphant  good. 

— John  Lanahan, 


426  NATIONAL. 


Human  society  reposes  on  religion.  Civilization  without  it 
would  be  like  the  lights  that  play  in  the  northern  sky  —  a  mo- 
mentary flash  on  the  face  of  darkness  ere  it  again  settles  into 
eternal  night.  Wit  and  wisdom,  sublime  poetry  and  lofty  phi- 
losophy, cannot  save  a  nation,  else  ancient  Greece  had  never 
perished.  Valor,  law,  ambition,  cannot  preserve  a  people,  else 
Rome  had  still  been  mistress  of  the  world.  The  nation  that 
loses  faith  in  God  and  man  loses  not  only  its  most  precious 
jewel,  but  its  most  purifying  and  conserving  force. 


Of  all  the  dispositions  and  habits  which  lead  to  political 
prosperity,  religion  and  morality  are  indispensable  supports. 
In  vain  would  that  man  claim  the  tribute  of  patriotism  who 
should  labor  to  subvert  those  pillars  of  human  happiness,  those 
firmest  props  of  the  duties  of  men  and  citizens. 

—  George  Washington. 


It  must  never  be  forgotten  that  religion  gave  birth  to  Anglo- 
American  society.  In  the  United  States,  religion  is  therefore 
commingled  with  all  the  habits  of  the  nation  and  all  the  feel- 
ings of  patriotism  ;  whence  it  derives  a  peculiar  force. 

—  De  Tocqueville. 


Make  us  mindful  of  Thy  mercies  in  the  past,  and  faithful  to 
the  memories  and  traditions  of  truth  and  justice,  of  religion 
and  patriotism,  in  those  that  have  gone  before  us. 

—  Bishop  W.  C.  Doane. 


Says  Oliver  Cromwell  :  "  What  are  all  histories  but  God 
manifesting  Himself,  that  He  hath  shaken  down  and  trampled 
under  foot  whatsoever  He  hath  not  planted  ?  "  History  is  not 
a  series  of  jumbled  happenings.  God  is  in  the  facts  of  history 
as  truly  as  He  is  in  the  march  of  the  seasons,  the  revolution  of 
the  planets,  or  the  architecture  of  the  worlds. 

—  John  Lanahan. 


NATURE.  427 


The  whole  track  of -history  is  marked  with  the  ruin  of  em- 
pires which  having   been  founded  in  injustice,  or  perpetuated 

by  wrong,  were  ultimately  destroyed. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Sow  but  one  seed  of  primal  evil  in  the  moral  soil  of  a  nation, 

it  will  grow  to  be  a  tree  as  broad  as  the  sky,  —  to  take  fruitful- 

ness  from  the  earth  wherein  it  is  rooted,  and  to  cover  it  instead 

with  barrenness  and  gloom. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


To  avert  national  decay,  then,  the  moral   character  must  be 

guarded.     The  mighty  heart  of  the  nation  must  be  kept  sound, 

so  that  its  pulses,  when  once  roused,  will,  like   the  ocean  in  its 

strength,  sweep   all   before   it.      So   long  as  the  moral  tone  is 

preserved,  the  sun  of  our  glory  will  not  set ;  there  will  come 

no  national  decay  and  death. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


If  the  great  questions  of  the  beginning  of  this  century  were 

mainly  political,   those   which   will   convulse  the   world  at   its 

close  will  be  social. 

• — ■  De  Tocqueville. 


NATURE. 

Every  object  in  nature  is  impressed  with  God's  footsteps, 
and  every  day  repeats  the  wonders  of  creation.  There  is  not 
an  object,  be  it  pebble  or  pearl,  weed  or  rose,  the  flower-span- 
gled sward  beneath,  or  the  star-spangled  sky  above,  not  a  worm 
or  an  angel,  a  drop  of  water  or  a  boundless  ocean,  in  which  in- 
telligence may  not  discern,  and  piety  adore,  the  providence  of 
Him  who  took  our  nature  that  He  might  save  our  souls. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


He  hath  made  every  thing  beautiful  in  his  time. 


428  NATURE. 

If  we  can  hear  the  voice  of  God  in  alL  sounds,  see  the  sweep 
of  His  will  in  all  motions,  catch  hints  of  His  taste  in  all  beauty, 
follow  the  reach  of.  His  imagination  in  all  heights  and  distances, 
and  trace  the  delicate  ministry  of  His  love  in  all  the  little 
graces  and  utilities  that  spring  and  blossom  about  us  as  thick  as 
the  grass,  we  shall  tread  God's  world  with  reverent  feet  as  if  it 
were  a  temple.  The  pure  and  solemn  eyes  of  the  indwelling 
soul  will  look  forth  upon  us  from  every  thing  which  His  hands 
have  made.  Nature  will  be  to  us,  not  some  dark  tissue  of  cloth 
of  mystery  flowing  from  some  unseen  loom,  but  a  vesture  of 
light  in  which  God  has  enrobed  Himself ;  and  with  worshipful 
fingers  we  shall  rejoice  to  touch  even  the  hem  of  His  garment. 

—  T-  H.  EcoB. 


When  I  consider  the  multitude  of  associated  forces  which 
are  diffused  through  nature  —  when  I  think  of  that  calm  bal- 
ancing of  their  energies  which  enables  those  most  powerful  in 
themselves,  most  destructive  to  the  world's  creatures  and  econ- 
omy, to  dwell  associated  together  and  be  made  subservient  to 
the  wants  of  creation,  I  rise  from  the  contemplation  more  than 
ever  impressed  with  the  wisdom,  the  beneficence,  and  grandeur, 
beyond  our  language  to  express,  of  the   Great   Disposer  of  us 

all. 

—  Faraday. 

We  might  almost  accuse  nature  of  falsehood.  One  sees  him- 
self behind  a  mirror  when  nothing  is  there.  A  straight  pole 
leaning  in  a  pool  is  bent  to  appearance.  The  sun  seems  to  rise 
and  set,  but  moves  not  at  all.  We  see  it  before  it  rises  and  after 
it  sets.  These  and  numberless  other  cases  might  be  adduced  to 
prove  the  deceitfulness  of  nature.  Nay,  they  prove  rather  that 
education  is  the  law  of  our  being,  and  that  here,  as  elsewhere, 
he   who  would  not  be   self-deceived,  must  study  nature's  laws, 

must  become  educated. 

—  D.  J.  Pratt. 


NATURE.  429 

Vast  chain  of  being  !  which  from  God  began, 
Natures  ethereal,  human,  angel,  man, 
Beast,  bird,  fish,  insect,  what  no  eye  can  see, 
No  glass  can  reach,  from  infinite  to  Thee, 
From  Thee  to  nothing. 

—  Pope. 


I  hold  that  we  have  a  very  imperfect  knowledge  of  the  works 
of  nature  till  we  view  them  as  works  of  God, —  not  only  as 
works  of  mechanism,  but  works  of  intelligence ,  not  only  as 
under  laws,  but  under  a  Lawgiver,  wise  and  good. 

—  James  McCosh. 

So  distinguished  by  a  Divine  wisdom,  power,  and  goodness, 
are  God  s  works  of  creation  and  providence,  that  all  nature,  by 
the  ^gentle  voices  of  her  skies  and  streams,  of  her  fields  and 
forests,  as  well  as  by  the  roar  of  breakers,  the  crash  of  thunder, 
the  rumbling  earthquake,  the  fiery  volcano,  and  the  destroying 
hurricane,  echoes  the  closing  sentences  of  this  angel  hymn, 
"  Holy,  holy,  holy  is  the  Lord  God  Almighty,  the  whole  earth 
is  full  of  His  glory !  " 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


There's  nothing  bright  above,  below. 
From  flowers  that  bloom,  to  stars  that  glow, 
But  in  its  light  my  soul  can  see 
Some  feature  of  Thy  Deity. 

—  T.  Moore. 


All  things  and  all  acts  and  this  whole  wonderful  universe 
proclaim  to  us  the  Lord  our  Father,  Christ  our  love,  Christ  our 
hope,  our  portion,  and  our  joy.  Oh,  brethren,  if  you  would  know 
the  meaning  of  the  world,  read  Christ  in  it.  If  you  would  see 
the  beauty  of  earth,  take  it  for  a  prophet  of  something  higher 
than  itself, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


430  NATURE. 

These,  as  they  change,  Ahiiighty  Father !     these 
Are  but  the  varied  God.     The  roUing  year 
Is  full  of  Thee.     Forth  in  the  pleasing  Spring 
Thy  beauty  walks,  Thy  tenderness  and  love. 

—  James  Thomson. 

It  is  good  for  any  man  to  be  alone  with  nature  and  himself, 

or  with  a  friend  who  knows  when  silence  is  more  sociable  than 

talk, — 

"  In  the  wilderness  alone 

There  where  nature  worships  God." 

It  is  well  to  be  in  places  where  man  is  little,  and  God  is  great, — 

where  what  he  sees  all  around  him  has  the  same  look  as  it  had 

a  thousand  years  ago,  and  will  have  the  same,  in  all  likelihood, 

when  he  has  been  a  thousand  years  in  his  grave.     It  abates  and 

rectifies  a  man,  if  he  is  worth  the  process. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


The  best  thing  is  to  go  from  nature's  God  down  to  nature  ; 
and  if  you  once  get  to  nature's  God,  and  believe  Him,  and 
love  Him,  it  is  surprising  how  easy  it  is  to  hear  music  in  the 
waves,  and  songs  in  the  wild  whisperings  of  the  winds ;  to  see 
God  everywhere  in  the  stones,  in  the  rocks,  in  the  rippling 
brooks,  and  hear  Him  everyAvhere,  in  the  lowing  of  cattle,  in 
the  rolling  of  thunder,  and  in  the  fury  of  tempests.  Get  Christ 
first,  put  Him  in  the  right  place,  and  you  will  find  Him  to  be 
the  wisdom  of  God  in  your  own  experience. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Only  let  us  love  God,  and  then  nature  will  compass  us  about 
like  a  cloud  of  Divine  witnesses ;  and  all  influences  from  the 
earth,  and  things  on  the  earth,  will  be  ministers  of  God  to  do 
us  good.  Only  let  there  be  God  within  us,  and  then  every 
thing  outside  us  will  become  a  godlike  help. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


NEARNESS  TO  GOD  AND  CHRIST.  431 

The  very  voices  of  the  night,  sounding  like  the  moan  of  the 
tempest,  may  turn  out  to  be  the  disguised  yet  tender  "voices 
of  God,"  calHng  away  from  all  earthly  footsteps,  to  mount  with 
greater  singleness  of  eye  and  ardor  of  aim  the  alone  ladder  of 
safety  and  peace  —  upward,  onward,  heavenward,  homeward. 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


God  is  infinite  ;  and  the  laws  of  nature,  like  nature  itself,  are 
finite.  These  methods  of  working,  therefore,  —  which  corre- 
spond to  the  physical  element  in  us,  —  do  not  exhaust  His 
agency.  There  is  a  boundless  residue  of  disengaged  energy 
beyond. 

—  James  Martineau. 

Nature  —  faint  emblem  of  Omnipotence  ! 
Shaped  by  His  hand  —  the  shadow  of  His  light  — 
The  veil  in  which  He  wraps  His  majesty. 

Call  nature  the  grand  revelation !  Is  it  more  to  go  to  nature 
and  know  it  than  to  know  God  1  Are  there  deeper  depths  in 
nature,  higher  sublimities,  thoughts  more  captivating  and  glori- 
ous t  In  the  mineral  and  vegetable  shapes  are  there  finer 
themes  than  in  the  life  of  Jesus  ?  In  the  storms  and  glorious 
pilings  of  the  clouds,  are  there  manifestations  of  greatness  and 
beauty  more  impressive  than  in  the  tragic  sceneries  of  the 
cross  ?  Nature  is  the  realm  of  things,  the  supernatural  is  the 
realm  of  powers.  —  Horace  Bushnell. 


NEARNESS  TO  GOD  AND  CHRIST. 

Still,  still  with  Thee,  when  purple  morning  breaketh, 
When  the  bird  waketh,  and  the  shadows  flee  ; 

Fairer  than  morning,  lovelier  than  the  daylight. 
Dawns  the  sweet  consciousness,  —  I  am  with  Thee. 

—  H.  B.  Stowe. 


433  NEARNESS  TO  GOD  AND  CHRIST. 

My  Christian   brethren,  if  the  crowd  of    difificuhies  which 

stand   between  your  souls  and  God  succeed  in  keeping  you 

away,  all  is  lost.     Right  into  the  Presence  you  must  force  your 

way,  with  no  concealment,  baring  the  soul  with  all  its  ailments 

before  Him,  asking,  not  the  arrest  of  the  consequences  of  sin, 

but  the  cleansing  of  the  conscience  "  from  dead  works  to  serve 

the  living  God,"  so  that  if  you  must  suffer,  you  will  suffer  as  a 

forgiven  man. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Seekest  thou  a  place  at  my  right  hand  ?  Nay,  I  give  thee  a 
more  wondrous  dignity.  "  To  him  that  overcometh  will  I 
grant  to  sit  with  me  in  my  throne." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Thou  wilt  draw  nigh  ! 
Father  —  it  is  no  dream  that  Thou  art  near  — 
No  dream  that,  in  my  sin  and  misery, 

I  may  look  up  to  Thee, — 
May  hide  beneath  the  shadow  of  Thy  wings, 
From  all  the  restlessness  of  outward  things. 
And  from  my  own  heart's  self-accusing  fears  — 

For  Thou  art  nigh. 

—  Hetty  Bowman. 


O,  to  have  the  soul  bathed  all  day  long  in  this  thought,  "  as 
the  pebble  in  the  willow  brook  "  until  the  words  come  like  the 
tears,  because  the  heart  is  full,  and  we  cannot  help  it ;  to  feel, 
in  the  darkest  hour,  that  there  is  an  unseen  Spectator  whose 
eyes  rest  on  us  like  morning  on  the  flowers  ;  and  that  in  the 
severest  sorrow,  we  can  sink  into  a  presence  full  of  love  and 
sympathy,  deeper  than  ever  breathed  from  earth  or  sky  or  lov- 
ing hearts —  a  presence  in  which  all  fears  and  anxieties  melt 
away  as  ice-crystals  in  the  warm  ocean.     This  is  heaven. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


NEARNESS  TO  GOD  AND  CHRIST.  433 

Let  us  keep  to  Christ,  and  cling  to  Him,  and  hang  on  Him, 
so  that  no  power  can  remove  us. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Nearer,  O  Christ,  to  Thee.  Nearer  to  the  open  side  ;  nearer 
to  the  eyes  that  wept  in  love  because  I  was  a  sinner  ;  nearer  to 
the  scarred  hand  that  wields  the  sceptre  of  dominion. 

—  T.  M.  Eddy. 


It  is  not  by  change  of  place  that  we  can  come  nearer  to  Him 
who  is  in  every  place,  but  by  the  cultivation  of  pure  desires 
and  virtuous  habits. 

—  St.  Augustine, 


With  Thee  in  shady  solitudes  I  walk. 
With  Thee  in  busy,  crowded  cities  talk  ; 
In  every  creature  own  Thy  forming  power, 
In  each  event  Thy  providence  adore. 

—  A.  L.  Barbauld. 


When  you  have  honestly  and  penitently  sought  out  Christ,, 
and  confessed  your  sins  to  Him,  and  put  yourself  wholly  in 
His  hands,  then  stay  there.  Follow  Him.  Keep  close  to  Him, 
and  Him  alone.  In  your  store,  in  your  shop,  in  your  field,  in 
your  home,  or  wherever  you  are,  be  ever  saying,  "  Now,  Jesus, 
Lead  me  !     Teach  me  Thy  way  !     Hold  fast  to  my  hand  !  " 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


Blessed  God,  pity  the  soul  whose  extremest  horror  is  the 
doom  of  an  eternal  departure  from  Thee.  Draw  my  spirit  into 
the  holiest  and  the  nearest  union  with  Thyself  that  is  possible 
while  it  dwells  in  this  flesh !  And  let  me  here  commence  that 
delightful  residence  and  converse  with  God,  which  nor  death, 
nor  judgment  shall  ever  destroy,  nor  shall  a  long  eternity  ever 
put  a  period  to  it. 

—  Elizabeth  Rowe. 
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434  NEGLIGENCE -OBEDIENCE. 

Thus  while  I  journey  on,  my  Lord  to  meet, 
My  thoughts  and  meditations  are  so  sweet. 
Of  Him  on  whom  I  lean,  my  strength,  my  stay, 
I  can  forget  the  sorrows  of  the  way. 

HORATIUS  BONAR. 


NEGLIGENCE. 

Negligence  is  the  rust  of  the  soul  that  corrodes  through  all 
her  best  resolves. 

—  Owen  Feltham. 


How  shall  we  escape,  if  we  neglect  so  great  salvation  ? 


OBEDIENCE. 

To  be  a  Christian  is  to  obey  Christ  no  matter  how  you  feel. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


True  obedience  to  God  is  the  obedience  of  faith  and  good 
works  ;  that   is,  he  is  truly  obedient  to  God  who  trusts  Him, 

and  does  what  He  commands. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


I  find  the  doing  of  the  will  of  God  leaves  me  no  time  for 
disputing  about  His  plans. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


The  virtue  of  paganism  was  strength ;  the  virtue  of  Chris- 
tianity is  obedience. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


OBEDIENCE.  435 


The  history  of  all  the  great  characters  of  the  Bible  is  sum- 
med up  in  this  one  sentence:  —  they  acquainted  themselves 
with  God,  and  acquiesced  in  His  will  in  all  things. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Every  man  obeys  Christ  as  he  prizes  Christ,  and  no  other- 
wise. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


"  Sir,"  said  the  Duke  of  Wellington  to  an  officer  of  engineers, 
who  urged  the  impossibility  of  executing  the  directions  he  had 
received,  "  I  did  not  ask  your  opinion,  I  gave  you  my  orders, 
and  I  expect  them  to  be  obeyed."  Such  should  be  the  obedi- 
ence of  every  follower  of  Jesus. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


"Arise,  take  up  thy  bed  and  walk."  You  are  on  your  bed 
now.  You  put  yourself  there  by  your  own  sin.  You  have 
kept  yourself  there  by  your  own  choice.  Every  sinner  is  a  sin- 
ner because  he  chooses  to  be  ;  and  you  are  no  exception. 
Jesus  commands  you  to  repent  and  trust  Him  and  follow  Him. 
The  moment  you  are  willing  to  obey.  He  gives  you  strength  to 
obey. 

T.    L.   CUYLER. 


O  that  we  could  take  that  simple  view  of  things,  as  to  feel 
that  the  one  thing  which  lies  before  us  is  to  please  God ! 
What  gain  is  it  to  please  the  world,  to  please  the  great,  nay, 
even  to  please  those  whom  we  love,  compared  with  this  ?  What 
gain  is  it  to  be  applauded,  admired,  courted,  followed, — com- 
pared with  this  one  aim  of    "  not   being  disobedient   to   the 

heavenly  vision? " 

—  J.  H.  Newman. 


He  praiseth  God  best  that  serveth  and  obeyeth  Him  most  ; 
the  life  of  thankfulness  consists  in  the  thankfulness  of  the  life. 


436  OBEDIENCE. 


The  sound  convert  takes  a  luholc  Christ,  and  takes  Him  for 
all  intents  and  purposes,  without  exceptions,  without  limitations, 
without  reserves.  He  is  willing  to  have  Christ,  upon  His  own 
terms,  upon  any  terms.  He  is  willing  to  bear  the  dominion  of 
Christ  as  well  as  have  deliverance  by  Christ.  He  saith  with 
Paul,  "  Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  have  me  to  do  ?  " 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


Let  the  ground  of  all  thy  religious  actions  be  obedience  ; 
examine  not  why  it  is  commanded,  but  observe  it  because  it  is 
commanded.  True  obedience  neither  procrastinates  nor  ques- 
tions. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 


O  God,  the  strength  of  all  those  who  put  their  trust  in  Thee  ; 
mercifully  accept  our  prayer;  and  because  through  the  weak- 
ness of  our  mortal  nature,  we  can  do  no  good  thing  without 
Thee,  grant  us  the  help  of  Thy  grace,  that  in  keeping  Thy 
commandments  we  may  please  Thee,  both  in  will  and  deed  ; 
through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


Poor,  sad  Humanity 
Through  all  the  dust  and  heat 
Turns  back  with  bleeding  feet, 
By  the  weary  road  it  came, 
Unto  the  simple  thought 
By  the  Great  Master  taught, 
And  that  remaineth  still, 
Not  he  that  repeateth  the  name. 
But  he  that  doeth  the  will  ! 

—  Longfellow. 


Worship  is  easier  than  obedience.       Men  are  ever  readier  to 
serve  the  priest  than  to  obey  the  prophet. 

—  A.  M.   Fairbairn. 


OBSTINACY  — OCCUPATION.  437 


I  believe  that  the  fewer  the  laws  in  a  home  the  better;  but 
there  is  one  law  which  should  be  as  plainly  understood  as  the 
shining  of  the  sun  is  visible  at  noonday,  and  that  is,  implicit  and 
instantaneous  obedience  from  the  child  to  the  parent,  not  only 
for  the  peace  of  the  home,  but  for  the  highest  good  of  the  child. 

A.    E.    KiTTREDGE. 


This  is  the  secret  of  Christ's  kingship  —  "  He  became 
obedient  —  wherefore  God  also  hath  highly  exalted  Him."  And 
this  is  the  secret  of  all  obedience  and  all  command.  Obedience 
to  a  law  above  you  subjugates  minds  to  you  who  never  would 
have  yielded  to  mere  will. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


OBSTINACY. 

An  obstinate  man  does  not  hold  opinions,  but  they  hold  him  ; 
for  when  he  is  once  possessed  with  an  error,  it  is,  like  a  devil, 
only  cast  out  with  great  difficulty. 

—  Bishop  Butler. 


His  still  refuted  quirks  he  still  repeats. 
New-raised  objections  with  new  quibbles  meets  : 
Till  smking  in  the  quicksand  he  defends. 
He  dies  disputing,  and  the  contest  ends. 

COWPER. 


OCCUPATION. 

One  of  the  best  maxims  in  determining  our  course  in  life  is, 
to  select,  at  the  outset,  that  in  which  virtue  and  principle  will 
be  least  likely  to  be  put  to  a  test,  and  in  which,  from  the  nature 
of  the  calling,  a  man  may  bring  around  him  such  associations 
and  influences  as  will  be  an  auxiliary  in  keeping  him  in  the 
path  of  virtue. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


438  OLD  AGE. 

Levi's  station  in  life  was  the  receipt  of  custom  ;  and  Peter's, 
the  shore  of  GaHlee  ;  and  Paul's,  the  antechambers  of  the  High- 
Priest, —  which  "  station  in  life  "  each  had  to  leave,  with  brief 

notice. 

-John  Ruskin. 


Let  parents  who  hate  their  offspring  rear  them  to  hate  labor, 
and  to  inherit  riches;  and  before  long  they  will  be  stung  by 
every  vice,  racked  by  its  poison,  and  damned  by  its  penalty. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


O  God,  impress  upon  me  the  value  of  time,  and  give  regula- 
tion to  all  my  thoughts  and  to  all  my  movements. 

—  Chalmers. 


OLD  AGE. 

The  day  of  life  spent  in  honest  and  benevolent  labor  comes 
in  hope  to  an  evening  calm  and  lovely  ;  and  though  the  sun  de- 
clines, the  shadows  that  he  leaves  behind  are  only  to  curtain 

the  spirit  unto  rest. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Thanks  to  that  regular  and  temperate  course  of  life  I  have 
ever  lived,  I  am  still  capable  of  taking  an  active  part  in  these 
public  scenes  of  business.  In  fine,  he  who  fills  up  every  hour 
of  his  life  in  such  kind  of  labors  as  those  I  have  mentioned,  will 
insensibly  slide  into  old  age  without  perceiving  its  arrival  ;  and 
his  powers,  instead  of  being  suddenly  and  prematurely  extin- 
guished, will  gradually  decline  by  the  gentle  and  natural  effect 

of  accumulated  years. 

—  Cicero. 


The  second  childhood  of  a  saint  is  the  early  infancy  of  a 

happy  immortality,  as  we  believe. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


OLD  AGE.  431> 

It  is  not  so  bad  a  thing  to  grow  old  ;  it  is  only  getting  a  little 

nearer  home  ;  a  little  nearer  to  immortal  youth. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Age  is  not  all  decay ;  it  is  the  ripening,  the  swelling  of  the 
fresh  life  within,  that  withers  and  bursts  the  husk. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


My  God  !  my  time  is  in  Thine  hands.  Should  it  please  Thee 
to  lengthen  my  life,  and  complete,  as  Thou  hast  begun,  the 
work  of  blanching  my  locks,  grant  me  grace  to  wear  them  as  a 

crown  of  unsullied  honor. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


An  aged  Christian  with  the  snow  of  time  on  his  head  may 
remind  us  that  those  points  of  earth  are  whitest  that  are  nearest 
heaven. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


Nobler  than  a  ship  safely  ending  a  long  voyage,  and  sublimer 
than  the  setting  sun,  is  the  old  age  of  a  just  and  kind  and  use- 
ful life. 


The  years  of  old  age  are  stalls  in  the  cathedral  of  life  in  which 
for  aged  men  to  sit  and  listen  and  meditate  and  be  patient  till 
the  service  is  over,  and  in  which  they  may  get  themselves  ready 
to  say  "  Amen  "  at  the  last,  with  all  their  hearts  and  souls  and 
strength. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Lonely  and  old,  in  the  dusk  I  am  waiting. 
Till  the  dark  boatman  with  soft  muffled  oar 

Glides  o'er  the  waves,  and  I  hear  the  keel  grating, — 
See  the  dim  beckoning  hand  on  the  shore, 

Wafting  me  over  the  welcoming  river 
To  gardens  and  homes  that  are  shining  forever  ! 


440  OPINION  -  ORDER  —  PARDON. 


OPINION. 

The  world  is  governed  much  more  by  opinion  than  by  laws. 

It  is  not  the  judgment  of  courts,  but  the  moral  judgment  of 

individuals  and  masses  of  men,  which  is  the  wall  of  defense 

around  property  and  life. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


It  is  more  true  to  say  that  our  opinions  depend  upon  our 
lives  and  habits  than  to  say  that  our  lives  depend  upon  our 
opinions,  which  is  only  now  and  then  true. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


ORDER. 

Order  is  the  sanity  of  the  mind,  the  health  of  the  body,  the 
peace  of  the  city,  the  security  of  the  State. 

—  Robert  Southey. 


Order  is  the  law  of  all  intelligible  existence. 

—  Prof.  Blackie. 


Order  is  heaven's  first  law. 

—  Pope. 


P. 

PARDON. 


God  forgives ;  forgives  not  capriciously,  but  with  wise,  defi- 
nite. Divine  pre'arrangement ;  forgives  universally,  on  the 
ground  of  an  atonement,  and  on  the  condition  of  repentance 
and  faith. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


PARENTS.  441 


God  pardons  like  a  mother  that  kisses  the  offense  into  ever- 
lasting forgetfuhiess. 


Almighty  God,  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  Maker  of 
all  things,  Judge  of  all  men:  We  acknowledge  and  bewail  our 
manifold  sins  and  wickedness  which  we,  from  time  to  time, 
most  grievously  have  committed,  by  thought,  word,  and  deed 
against  Thy  Divine  Majesty,  provoking  most  justly  Thy  wrath 
and  indignation  against  us.  We  do  earnestly  repent,  and  are 
heartily  sorry  for  these  our  misdoings.  The  remembrance  of 
them  is  grievous  unto  us.  Have  mercy  upon  us,  have  mercy 
upon  us,  most  merciful  Father  ;  for  Thy  Son  our  LoM  Jesus 
Christ's  sake  forgive  us  all  that  is  past ;  and  grant  that  we  may 
ever  hereafter  serve  and  please  Thee  in  newness  of  life,  to  the 
honor  and  glory  of  Thy  name  ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen.  — Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


PARENTS. 

You  that  are  parents,  discharge  your  duty ;  though  you  can- 
not impart  grace  to  your  children,  yet  you  may  impart  knowl- 
edge. Let  your  children  know  the  commandments  of  God. 
"  Ye  shall  teach  them  your  children."  You  are  careful  to  leave 
your  children  a  portion  ;  leave  the  oracles  of  heaven  with  them; 
instruct  them  in  the  law  of  God.  If  God  spake  all  these  words, 
you  may  well  speak  them  over  again  to  your  children. 

—  T.  Watson. 


Let  France  have  good  mothers,  and  she  will  have  good  sons. 

—  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


The  first  essential,  then,  if  we  would  train  up  our  children 
to  be  pure  and  kind  and  spiritual,  is  to  be  careful  that  our 
daily  lives  are  a  model  for  them  to  copy.  Not  that  we  can  be 
absolutely  holy,  but  we  can  be  Christlike. 


442  PASSIONS  — PATIENCE. 

I  suppose  that  every  parent  loves  his  child  ;  but  I  know, 
without  any  supposing,  that  in  a  large  number  of  homes  the 
love  is  hidden  behind  authority,  or  its  expression  is  crowded 
out  by  daily  duties  and  cares. 

A.  E.  KiTTREDGE. 


PASSIONS. 

We  should  employ  our  passions  in  the  service  of  life,  not 

spend  life  in  the  service  of  our  passions. 

—  Richard  Steele. 


Our  headstrong  passions  shut  the  door  of  our  souls  against 

God. 

—  Confucius. 


PATIENCE. 

The  disciples  of  a  patient  Saviour  should  be  patient  them- 
selves. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Dispose  thyself  to  patience  rather  than  to  comfort,  and  to  the 
bearing  of  the  cross  rather  than  to  gladness. 

— Thomas  a  Kempis. 


Patience  is  enduring  love  ;  experience  is  perfecting  love  ;  and 

hope  is  exulting  love. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


Patience  is  the  ballast  of  the  soul  that  will  keep  it  from  roll- 
ing and  tumbling  in  the  greatest  storms. 

—  Bishop  Hopkins. 


A  true  Christian  man  is  distinguished  from  other  men,  not  so 
much  by  his  beneficent  works,  as  by  his  patience. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


PATIENCE.  443 


Christ  commands  you  to  take  up  His  cross  and  follow  Him, 
not  that  He  may  humble  you,  or  lay  some  penance  upon  you, 
but  that  you  may  surrender  the  low  self-will  and  the  feeble 
pride  of  your  sin,  and  ascend  into  the  sublime  patience  of  heav- 
enly charity. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


It  is  not  necessary  for  all  men  to  be  great  in  action.     The 
greatest  and  sublimest  power  is  often  simple  patience. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Therefore,  let  us  be  patient,  patient  ;  and  let  God  our  Father 
teach  His  own  lesson.  His  own  way.  Let  us  try  to  learn  it  well 
and  quickly  ;  but  do  not  let  us  fancy  that  He  will  ring  the 
school-bell,  and  send  us  to  play  before  our  lesson  is  learnt. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Not  without  design  does  God  write  the  music  of  our  lives. 
Be  it  ours  to  learn  the  time,  and  not  be  discouraged  at  the  rests. 
If  we  say  sadly  to  ourselves,  "There  is  no  music  in  a  rest,"  let 
us  not  forget  "  there  is  the  making  of  music  in  it."  The  mak- 
ing of  music  is  often  a  slow  and  painful  process  in  this  life. 
How  patiently  God  works  to  teach  us  !  How  long  He  waits  for 
us  to  learn  the  lesson  ! 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Patience  !  why,  it  is  the  soul  of  peace  ;  of  all  the  virtues  it  is 
nearest  kin  to  heaven  ;  it  makes  men  look  like  gods.  The  best 
of  men  that  ever  wore  earth  about  Him  was  a  Sufferer, —  a  soft, 
meek,  patient,  humble,  tranquil  spirit  ;  the  first  true  gentleman 
that  ever  breathed. 

—  Thomas  Decker. 


It  is  easy  finding  reasons  why  other  folks  should  be  patient. 

—  George  Eliot. 


444  PATIENCE. 


When  I  am  about  my  work,  sometimes  called  unexpectedly 
and  suddenly  from  one  thing  to  another,  I  whisper  in  my  heart, 
"  Lord,  help  me  to  be  patient,  help  me  to  remember,  and  help 
me  to  be  faithful.  Lord,  enable  me  to  do  all  for  Christ's  sake, 
and  to  go  forward,  leaning  on  the  bosom  of  His  infinite  grace." 

—  Mary  Lyon. 


The  holier  one  is,  the  more  forbearing  and  loving  he  is ;  the 

more  tender  and  patient  and  anxious  to  help  others  in  every 

way.     Think  how  forbearing  and  loving  Christ  is  when  we  do 

wrong ;  and  there  we  are  to  be  like  Him. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Help  us,  O  Lord !  with  patient  love  to  bear 

Each  other's  faults,  to  suffer  with  true  meekness; 

Help  us  each  other's  joys  and  griefs  to  share. 
But  let  us  turn  to  Thee  alone  in  weakness. 


Show  yourself  a  Christian  by  suffering  without  murmuring. 

In  patience  possess  your  soul  —  they  lose  nothing  who  gain 

Christ. 

—  Rutherford. 


In  your  patience  ye  are  strong. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


Never  think  that  God's  delays  are  God's  denials.     Hold  on  ! 

hold  fast  !  hold  out  !    Patience  is  genius. 

—  Count  de  Buffon. 


Teach  me  to  feel  that  Thou  art  always  nigh  ; 

Teach  me  the  struggles  of  the  soul  to  bear  ; 
To  check  the  rising  doubt,  the  rebel  sigh  ; 

Teach  me  the  patience  of  unanswered  prayer. 

—  George  Croly. 


PATRIOTISM  — PEACE.  445 


PATRIOTISM. 
To  be  a  good  patriot,  a  man  must  consider  his  countrymen  as 
God's  creatures,   and   himself  as    accountable    for    his  acting 
towards  them. 

—  Bishop  Berkeley. 


It  should  be  the  work  of  a  genuine  and  noble  patriotism  to 
raise  the  life  of  the  nation  to  the  level  of  its  privileges ;  to  har- 
monize its  general  practice  with  its  abstract  principles ;  to  re- 
duce to  actual  facts  the  ideals  of  its  institutions ;  to  elevate  in- 
struction into  knowledge  ;  to  deepen  knowledge  into  wisdom  ; 
to  render  knowledge  and  wisdom  complete  in  righteousness  ; 
and  to  make  the  love  of  country  perfect  in  the  love  of  man. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


That  is  a  true  sentiment  Avhich  makes  us  feel  that  we  do  not 
love  our  country  less,  but  more,  because  we  have  laid  up  in  our 
minds  the  knowledge  of  other  lands  and  other  institutions  and 
other  races,  and  have  had  enkindled  afresh  within  us  the  instinct 
of  a  common  humanity,  and  of  the  universal  beneficence  of  the 
Creator. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


PEACE. 

When  Christ  was  about  to  leave  the  world,  He  made  His  will. 
His  soul  He  committed  to  His  father  ;  His  body  He  bequeathed 
to  Joseph  to  be  decently  interred  ;  His  clothes  fell  to  the  sol- 
diers ;  His  mother  He  left  to  the  care  of  John  ;  but  what  should 
He  leave  to  His  poor  disciples  that  had  left  all  for  Him  ?  Silver 
and  gold  He  had  none  ;  but  He  left  them  that  which  was  in- 
finitely better.  His  peace. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


In  moderating,  not  in  satisfying  desires,  lies  peace. 


446  PEACE. 

You  may  assuredly  find  perfect  peace,  if  you  are  resolved  to 
do  that  which  your  Lord  has  plainly  required, —  and  content 
that  He  should  indeed  require  no  more  of  you, —  than  to  do 
justice,  to  love  mercy^  and  to  walk  humbly  with  Him. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


After  love  comes  peace.  A  great  many  people  are  trying  to 
make  peace.  But  that  has  already  been  done.  God  has  not 
left  it  for  us  to  do  ;  all  that  we  have  to  do  is  to  enter  into  it. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


If  there  is  any  thing  that  can  render  the   soul  calm,  dissipate 

its  scruples,  and  dispel   its  fears,  sweeten  its  sufferings  by  the 

anointing  of  love,  impart  strength   to  it  in  all  its  actions,  and 

spread  abroad  the  joy  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  its  countenance  and 

words,  it  is  a  simple,  free,  and  child-like  repose  in  the  arms  of 

God. 

— Fenelon. 


How  different  the  peace  of  God  from  that  of  the  world  !  It 
calms  the  passions,  preserves  the  purity  of  the  conscience,  is 
inseparable  from  righteousness,  unites  us  to  God  and  strength- 
ens us  against  temptations.      The  peace  of  the  soul  consists  in 

an  absolute  resignation  to  the  will  of  God. 

—  Fenelon. 


Let  my  soul  calm  itself,  O  Christ,  in  Thee. 

—  H.  B.  Stowe. 


There  have  been   keen   agonies,  sore  heart-aches,  but  they 

have  been  short,  and  a  sweet  peace  abides.     Can  it  be  His 

peace .''     Is  it  possible  that  to  such  a  weak,  sinful  creature  as  I, 

the  Comforter  has  indeed  come  1    I  must  believe  this,  and  that 

it  is  His  presence  that  cheers  me. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


PEACE.  447 

Patience  and  resignation  are  the  pillars 
Of  human  peace  on  earth. 

—  Young. 


The  promise  is:  "  Thou  wilt  keep  him  in  perfect  peace 
whose  mind  is  stayed  on  Thee."  Now,  as  long  as  our  minds 
are  stayed  on  our  dear  selves,  we  shall  never  have  peace. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  mistake  we  make  is  to  look  for  a  source  of  comfort  in 
ourselves :  self-contemplation,  instead  of  gazing  upon  God. 
In  other  words,  we  look  for  comfort  precisely  where  comfort 
never  can  be. 

—  F.  W,  Robertson. 


We  shall  never  be  at  peace  with  ourselves  until  we  yield  with 
glad  supremacy  to  our  higher  faculties. 

—  Joseph  Cook. 


What  produced  this  divine  serenity,  subject  to  no  moods, 
clouded  by  no  depression,  this  perpetual  Sunday  of  the  heart  ? 
It  w-as  not  merely  good  nature,  not  the  accident  of  a  happy  or- 
ganization. It  was  deeper  than  that.  It  was  the  perfect  poise 
resulting  from  a  Christian  experience.  It  was  the  habit  of 
looking  to  God  in  love  and  to  man  in  love. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke, 


It  is  not  that  I  feel  less  weak,  but  Thou 
Wilt  be  my  strength.     It  is  not  that  I  see 
Less  sin,  but  more  of  pardoning  love  in  Thee, 
And  all-sufficient  grace.     Enough  !     And  now 
All  fluttering  thought  is  stilled  ;  I  only  rest. 
And  feel  that  Thou  art  near,  and  know  that  I  am  blest. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal, 


448  PENITENCE. 


I  could  not  live  in  peace  if  I  put  the  shadow  of  a  willful  sin 
between  myself  and  God. 

—  George  Eliot. 


And  so,  in  calm  expectation  of  a  blessed  future  and  a  fin- 
ished work  which  will  explain  the  past,  in  honest  submission 
of  our  way  to  God,  in  supreme  delight  in  Him  who  is  the  glad- 
ness of  our  joy,  the  secret  of  tranquillity  will  be  ours. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Let   not    thy  peace    depend  on  the  tongues  of    men ;    for 
whether  they  judge  well  of  thee  or  ill,  thou  art  not  on  that  ac- 
count other  than  thyself.    Where  are  true  peace  and  true  glory?  _ 
Are  they  not  in  God  ? 

—  Edward  Garrett. 


Two  sorts  of  peace  are   more   to   be   dreaded  than  all  the 
troubles  in  the  world  —  peace  with  sin,  and  peace  in  sin. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


PENITENCE. 

The  law  can  never  save  us ;  and  he  is  nearest  to  the  forgive- 
ness of  the  gospel  who,  with  a  contrite  heart,  discerns  most 
clearly  and  feels  most  profoundly  that  perfection  of  the  Divine 
statute  which  impeaches  and  condemns  him. 

—  William  Adams. 


Prostrate,  dear  Jesus,  at  Thy  feet, 

A  guilty  rebel  lies  ; 

And  upwards,  to  Thy  mercy-seat, 

Presumes  to  lift  his  eyes. 

—  S.  Stennett. 


Christian  penitence  is  something  more  than  a  thought  or  an 

emotion  or  a  tear  ;   it  is  action. 

—  William  Adams. 


PERFECTION.  449 


Know  what  your  sin  is  and  confess  it  ;  but  do  not  imagine 
that  you  have  approved  yourself  a  penitent  by  confessing  sin 
in  the  abstract. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Break  my  hard  heart, 

Jesus  my  Lord ; 
In  the  inmost  part 

Hide  Thy  sweet  word. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


PERFECTION. 
There  is  but  one  true  good  for  a  spiritual  being,  and  this  is 
found  in  its  perfection.     Men  are  slow  to  see  this  truth  ;  and 
yet  it  is  the  key  to  God's  providence,  and  to  the  mysteries  of 
life. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Those  who  disbelieve  in  virtue  because  man  has  never  been 
found  perfect,  might  as  reasonably  deny  the  sun  because  it  is 
not  always  noon. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


It  is  a  union  with  a  Higher  Good  by  love,  that  alone  is  end- 
less perfection.  The  only  sufficient  object  for  man  must  be 
something  that  adds  to  and  perfects  his  nature,  to  which  he 
must  be  united  in  love  ;  somewhat  higher  than  himself,  yea, 
the  highest  of  all,  the  Father  of  spirits.  That  alone  completes 
a  spirit  and  blesses  it,  —  to  love  Him,  the  spring  of  spirits. 

—  Archbishop  Leighton. 

That  is  the  true  perfection  of  man  to  find  out  his  imperfec- 
tions. 

—  St.  Augustine. 
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450  PERSECUTION  — PERSEVERANCE. 


PERSECUTION. 
It  has  become  a  settled  principle  that  nothing  which  is  good 
and  true  can  be  destroyed  by  persecution,  but  that  the  effect 
ultimately  is  to  establish  more  firmly,  and  to  spread  more 
widely,  that  which  it  was  designed  to  overthrow.  It  has  long 
since  passed  into  a  proverb  that  "  the  blood  of  the  martyrs  is 
the  seed  of  the  church." 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Christianity    has     made     martyrdom     sublime,    and    sorrow 
triumphant. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


PERSEVERANCE. 
Perseverance  is  the  master  impulse  of  the  firmest  souls,  the 
discipline  of  the   noblest  virtues,  and  the  guaranty  of  acquisi- 
tions the  most  invigorating  in  their  use  and  inestimable  in  their 
worth. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


The  practice  of  perseverance  is  the  discipline  of  the  noblest 
virtues.  To  run  well,  we  must  run  to  the  end.  It  is  not  the 
fighting  but  the  conquering  that  gives  a  hero  his  title  to  re- 
nown. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Invariably  will  you  find  perseverance  exemplified  as  the 
radical  principle  in  every  truly  great  character.  It  facilitates, 
perfects,  and  consolidates  the  execution  of  the  plan  conceived, 
and  renders  profitable  its  results  when  attained.  By  continuing 
to  advance  steadily  in  the  same  way,  light  constantly  increases, 
obstacles  disappear,  efficient  habits  are  confirmed,  experience  is 
acquired,  the  use  of  the  best  means  is  reduced  to  easy  action, 
and  success  becomes  more  sure. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


PIETY.  451 

The  imperial  heroes  who  rule  over  the  opinions  of  their  fel- 
low men  for  good  or  ill,  are  victory-organized  ;  they  march 
towards  the  execution  of  their  purpose^  as  if  they  were  intent  on 
the  conquest  of  a  world.  With  a  bold  front  and  piercing  eye, 
they  are  repelled  by  no  obstacles,  and  entertain  not  the  slight- 
est doubt  as  to  a  final  triumph  ;  days  and  nights,  like  their  for- 
tune, health,  and  every  thing  dear  in  existence,  they  consecrate 
to  the  success  of  their  particular  enterprise.  As  with  hooks  of 
steel,  they  grapple  the  most  stubborn  difficulties,  and  relax 
neither  hand  nor  foot  so  long  as  there  remains  one  vital  energy 

in  their  will. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


The  character  and  conquest  of  the  invincible  champion  are 
ever  the  same.  A  Lacedaemonian  died  while  writing  with  his 
own  blood  on  a  rock  —  "  Sparta  has  conquered!"  But,  O,  there 
is  an  illustration  higher  and  better  than  any  derived  from  mere 
earthly  annals.  Jesus  veiled  His  glory  in  the  skies  ;  shrouded 
divinity  in  mortality,  and  with  godhead  and  humanity  coalesced 
in  His  person,  entered  the  lists  with  more  than  mortal  strife 
against  the  powers  of  hell.  He  drank  the  bitter  cup  with  sub- 
limer  resignation  than  the  sages  of  earth  ever  knew  ;  contended 
victoriously  where  finite  champions  must  inevitably  have  been 
destroyed  ;  fell,  like  the  strong  man,  destroying  His  foes  by  His 
death  ;  persevered  on  our  behalf  in  all  the  fearful  descent  from 
the  august  throne  of  the  Eternal  to  the  stony  floor  of  the  cold 
'and  gloomy  sepulchre  ;  that  Hope's  sweet  fountain  might  gush 
up  for  mankind  in  Golgotha,  and  Salvation  plant  her  banner 
with  immortal  triumph  at  the  portal  of  the  conquered  tomb. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


PIETY. 
Piety   does  not  mean  that  a  man  should  make  a  sour  face 
about  things,  and  refuse  to  enjoy  in  moderation  what   his  Maker 
has  given,  — Thomas  Carlyle. 


452  PIETY. 

In  theory,  piety  is  reverence  and  love  fgr  God  ;  and  in  prac- 
tice, it  is  the  exercise  of  all  our  powers  in  obedience  to  the 
Divine  will.  Combining  the  theory  and  practice,  we  have  the 
richest    treasure    known  on    earth  —  love  for    God  shown    in 

obedience  to  God. 

—  D.  W.  Gates. 


In  periods  that  are  wanting  in  inspiration  piety  always  as- 
sumes the  character  of  caution.  It  degenerates  from  a  free  and 
joyful  devotion  to  a  melancholy  and  anxious  slavery. 

—  J.  H.  Seelye. 


What  you  cannot  lift  before  His  pure  eyes  and  think  of  Him 
while  you  enjoy,  is  not  for  you.  Friendship,  schemes,  plans, 
ambitions,  amusements,  speculations,  studies,  loves,  businesses 
—  can  you  call  on  the  name  of  the  Lord  while  you  put  these 
cups  to  your  lips  ?     If  not,  fling  them  behind  you, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christian  piety  annihilates  the  egotism  of  the  heart ;  worldly 

politeness  vails  and  represses  it. 

—  Pascal. 


There  is  no  piety  in  the  world  which  is  not  the  result  of  cul- 
tivation, and  which  cannot  be  increased  by  the  degree  of  care 
and  attention  bestowed  upon  it. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Young  men,  you  who  have  any  piety  at  all,  what  sort  is  it  ? 
Is  it  a  hot-house  plant,  which  must  be  framed  and  glassed,  lest 
March,  that  bold  young  fellow,  should  shake  the  life  out  of  it  in 
his  rough  play  among  the  flowers  ?  or  is  it  a  hardy  shrub,  which 
rejoices  when  the  wild  winds  course  along  the  heather  or  howl 
above  the  crest  of  Lebanon  ''  We  need,  believe  me,  the  bravery 
of  godliness  to  bear  true  witness  for  our  Master  now. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


PIETY.  453 

Young  men,  terminate,  I  beseech  you,  in  your  own  experience, 
the  sad  divorce  which  has  too  often  existed  between  intellect 
and  piety.  Take  your  stand,  unswerving,  heroic,  by  the  altar 
of  truth  ;  and  from  that  altar  let  neither  sophistry  nor  ridicule 
expel  you.  Let  your  faith  rest  with  a  child's  trust,  with  a  mar- 
tyr's grip,  upon  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  great  moral  lesson  which  Saul's  history  leaves  for  the  in- 
struction of  mankind  is  this  :  That  without  true  piety  the  finest 
qualities  of  character  and  the  highest  position  in  society  will 
utterly  fail  to  make  a  true  and  noble  man.  If  Saul's  heart  had 
been  true  to  God,  he  would  have  been  one  of  the  grandest  speci- 
mens of  humanity  ;  but,  lacking  this  true  obedience  to  God,  he 
made  his  life  an  utter  failure,  and  his  character  amoral  wreck, 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


The  piety  that  keeps  the  Sabbath  with  a  great  zeal  of  devo- 
tion, yet  fails  to  keep  itsjDossessor  honest  on  Monday,  is  not  the 
kind  that  is  stamped  in  the  mint  of  heaven. 

—  Herrick  Johnson, 


What  smoky  prayers  ! —  one  earnest  petition,  and  then  a 
thousand  wandering  thoughts  !  What  smoky  faith! — a  joyful 
sight  of  the  Saviour's  sufficiency,  and  then  a  long  season  of  in- 
ward complacency  occasioned  by  that  sight  !  Self-righteous 
efforts  to  extirpate  self-righteousness,  and  most  legal  endeavors 
to  elaborate  faith  !  What  smoky  affections  ! —  gleams  of  love  to 
God,  followed  by  long  intervals  of  estrangement ! —  spurts  of 
self-sacrifice,  followed  by  systematic  worldliness  !  Fits  of  fury 
against  some  besetting  sin,  followed  by  abject  surrender  to  its 
power  !  Ah,  brethren,  if  the  Saviour  were  human.  He  would  set 
His  foot  on  this  fuming  profession  ;    He  would  extinguish  this 

smoking  flax. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


454  PITY  —  POVERTY. 


We  must  watch  over  pious  impressions,  and  cultivate  them, 
or  they  will  never  become  vigorous  and  enduring. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Think  of  a  woman  by  the  side  of  a  dying  sister,  or  a  sick 
child,  or  a  sorrowing  friend,  or  a  broken-hearted  and  broken- 
spirited  man,  without  a  word  of  heaven  in  her  mouth  —  without 
so  much  as  the  ability  to  whisper  "Our  Father,"  or  even  to 
point  her  finger  hopefully  towards  the  stars. 

—  T.  G.  Holland. 


PITY. 

More  helpful  than  all  wisdom  is  one  draught  of  simple  human 
pity  that  will  not  forsake  us. 

—  George  Eliot. 


POVERTY. 


The  world's  proverb  is,  "  God  help  the  poor,  for  the  rich 
can  help  themselves;  "  but  to  our  mind,  it  is  just  the  rich  who 
have  most  need  of  Heaven's  help.  Dives  in  scarlet  is  worse  off 
than  Lazarus  in  rags,  unless  Divine  lo^fe  shall  uphold  him. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


There  is  not  such  a  mighty  difference  as  some  men  imagine 
between  the  poor  and  the  rich ;  in  pomp,  show,  and  opinion, 
there  is  a  great  deal,  but  little  as  to  the  pleasures  and  satisfac- 
tions of  life.  They  enjoy  the  same  earth  and  air  and  heavens; 
hunger  and  thirst  make  the  poor  man's  meat  and  drink  as 
pleasant  and  relishing  as  all  the  varieties  which  cover  the  rich 
man's  table  ;  and  the  labor  of  a  poor  man  is  more  healthful, 
and  many  times  more  pleasant,  too,  than  the  ease  and  softness 

of  the  rich. 

—  Bishop  Sherlock. 


POWER.  455 

It  was   Lazarus   faith,  not   his  poverty,  which   brought  him 
into  Abraham's  bosom. 

—  Trench. 


It  is  not  poverty  so  much  as  pretense  that  harasses  a  ruined 
man. 

—  W.  Irving. 


As  no  one  can  adventure  nearer  the  throne  of  God  by  virtue 
of  his  rank,  his  wealth,  or  his  talent,  so  no  one  is  Yt^^i  farther 
from  that  throne  by  his  low  condition,  or  by  his  poverty  of 
wealth,  of  learning,  or  of  intellect.  The  prince  and  the  sage 
are  not  more  welcome  to  heaven  than  the  poor  and  ignorant. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


Aspirations  pure  and  high  — 
Strength  to  do  and  to  endure  — 

Heir  of  all  the  Ages,  I  — 
Lo !  I  am  no  longer  poor  ! 

—  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr. 

POWER. 

It  is  not  possible  to  found  a  lasting  power  upon  injustice, 
perjury,  and  treachery. 

—  Demosthenes. 


What  elements  of  power  we  wield !  Truth  unmixed  with 
error,  flashing  as  God's  own  lightning  in  its  brightness,  resist- 
less if  properly  wielded,  as  that  living  flame  !  O  what  agencies  ! 
The  Holy  Ghost  standing  and  pleading  with  us  to  so  work 
that  He  may  help  us,  the  very  earth  coming  to  the  help  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  And  yet  I  am  painfully  impressed  that  we 
are  not  wielding  the  elements  of  Christian  achievement  nearly 
up  to  their  maximum. 

—  T.  M.  Eddy. 


456  PRAISE  — PRAYER. 

Great  men   are   they  who  see  that  spiritual  is  stronger  than 
any  material  force. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


There  is  no  surer  mark  of  a  low  and  unregenerate  nature 
than  this  tendency  of  power  to  loudness  and  wantonness  in- 
stead of  quietness  and  reverence.  To  souls  baptized  in  Chris- 
tian nobleness  the  largest  sphere  of  command  is  but  a  wider 
empire  of  obedience,  calling  them,  not  to  escape  from  holy  rule, 

but  to  its  full  impersonation. 

—  James  Martineau. 


PRAISE. 


Praise  is  the  best  auxiliary  to  prayer;  and  he  who  most  bears 
in  mind  what  has  been  done  for  him  by  God  will  be  most  em- 
boldened to  supplicate  fresh  gifts  from  above. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Do  not  fancy,  as  too  many  do,  that  thou  canst  praise  God 
by  singing  hymns  to  Him  in  church  once  a  week,  and  disobey- 
ing Him  all  the  week  long.  He  asks  of  thee  works  as  well  as 
words;  and  more,  He  asks  of  thee  works  first  and  words  after. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Praise  consists  in  the  love  of  God,  in  wonder  at  the  goodness 
of  God,  in  recognition  of  the  gifts  of  God,  in  seeing  God  in  all 
things  He  gives  us,  ay,  and  even  in  the  things  that  He  refuses 
to  us ;  so  as  to  see  our  whole  life  in  the  light  of  God  ;  and  see- 
ing this,  to  bless  Him,  adore  Him,  and  glorify  Him. 

—  Manning. 


PRAYER. 
True  prayer  is  an  earnest  soul's  direct  converse  with  its  God. 

—  T.   L.  CUYLER. 


PRAYER.  457 

A  prayer  in   its  simplest  definition  is  merely  a  wish  turned 

Godward. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Prayer  is  the  breath  of  a  new-born  soul,  and  there  can  be  no 

•Christian  life  without  it. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


True  prayer  is  only  another  name  for  the  love  of  God.     Its 

excellence  does  not  consist  in  the  multitude  of  our  words  ;  for 

our  Father  knoweth   what  things  we  have  need  of  before  we 

ask  Him.      The  true  prayer  is  that  of  the  heart,  and  the  heart 

prays  only  for   what  it   desires.     To   pray,  then,  is  to  desire  — 

but  to  desire  what  God  would  have  us  desire. 

—  Fenelon. 


A  life  of  prayer  is  a  life  whose  litanies  are  ever  fresh  acts  of 
self-devoting  love. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Prayer  is  an  offering  up  of  our  desires  unto  God,  for  things 
agreeable  to  His  will,  in  the  name  of  Christ,  with  confession  of 
our  sins,  and  thankful  acknowledgment  of  His  mercies. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


Worship  is  the  earthly  act  by  which  we  most  distinctly  recog- 
nize our  personal  immortality  ;  men  who  think  that  they  will  be 
extinct  a  few  years  hence  do  not  pray.  In  worship  we  spread 
out  our  insignificant  life,  which  yet  is  the  work  of  the  Creator's 
hands,  and  the  purchase  of  the  Redeemer's  blood,  before  the 
Eternal  and  All-Merciful,  that  we  may  learn  the  manners  of  a 
higher  sphere,  and  fit  ourselves  for  companionship  with  saints 
and  angels,  and  for  the  everlasting  sight  of  the  face  of  God. 

H.  P.  LiDDON. 


458  PRAYER. 

Prayer  is  not  conquering  God's  reluctance,  but  taking  hold 
upon  God's  willingness. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Prayer  is  the  act  by  which  man,  detaching  himself  from  the 
embarrassments  of  sense  and  nature,  ascends  to  the  true  level 
of  his  destiny. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 


Prayer  is  so  mighty  an  instrument  that  no  one  ever  thor- 
oughly mastered  all  its  keys.  They  sweep  along  the  infinite 
scale  of  man's  wants  and  God's  goodness. 

—  Hugh  Miller. 


Prayer  is  not  eloquence,  but  earnestness  ;  not  the  definition 
of  helplessness,  but  the  feeling  of  it ;  not  figures  of  speech,  but 
compunction  of  soul. 

—  Hannah  More. 


Prayer,  then,  does  not  consist  in  sweet  feelings,  nor  in  the 
charms  of  an  excited  imagination,  nor  in  that  illumination  of 
the  intellect  that  traces  with  ease  the  sublimest  truths  of  God ; 
nor  even  in  a  certain  consolation  in  the  view  of  God  ;  all  these 
things  are  external  gifts  from  His  hand,  in  the  absence  of  which 
love  may  exist  even  more  purely,  as  the  soul  may  then  attach 
itself  immediately  and  solely  to  God,  instead  of  to  His  mercies. 

—  Fenelon. 


Prayer  is  the  pulse  of  the  renewed  soul  ;  and  the  constancy 
of  its  beat  is  the  test  and  measure  of  the  spiritual  life. 

OCTAVIUS  WiNSLOW. 


The  best  and  sweetest  flowers  of  paradise  God  gives  to  His 
people  when  they  are  upon  their  knees.  Prayer  is  the  gate  of 
heaven.  —Thomas  Brooks. 


PRAYER.  459 

We  lay  it  down  as  an  elemental  principle  of  religion,  that  no 

large  growth  in  holiness  was  ever   gained  by  one  who  did  not 

take  time  to  be  often  and  long  alone  with  God.     No  otherwise 

can  the  great  central  idea  of  God  enter  into  a  man's  life,  and 

dwell  there  supreme. 

—  Austin  Phelps. 


Any  heart  turned  Godward  feels  more  joy 

In  one  short  hour  of  prayer,  than  e'er  was  raised 

By  all  the  feasts  of  earth  since  its  foundation. 

—  P.J.Bailey. 


Cease  not  to  pray  ; 
On  Jesus  as  your  all  rely. 
Would  you  live  happy  — happy  die  ; 
Take  time  to  pray. 


A  good  man's  prayers 
Will  from  the  deepest  dungeon  climb  to  heaven's  height, 
And  bring  a  blessing  down. 

—  Joanna  Bailie. 


Prayer  moves  the  hand  which  moves  the  world. 

—  J.  A.  Wallace. 


Consider  how  august  a  privilege  it  is,  when  angels  are  present, 
and  archangels  throng  around,  when  cherubim  and  seraphim 
encircle  with  their  blaze  the  throne,  that  a  mortal  may  approach 
with  unrestrained  confidence,  and  converse  with  heaven's  dread 
Sovereign  !    O,  what  honor  was  ever  conferred  like  this  ? 

—  Chrysostom. 


Our  prayers  are  ships.  We  send  them  to  no  uncertain  port. 
They  are  destined  for  the  throne  of  grace  ;  and  while  they  take  a 
cargo  of  supplications  from  us,  they  come  back  argosies  laden 
with  the  riches  of  Divine  grace. 


460.  PRAYER. 

Prayer  pulls  the  rope  below,  and  the  great  bell  rings  above 
in  the  ears  of  God.  Some  scarcely  stir  the  bell,  for  they  pray 
so  languidly  ;  others  give  but  an  occasionarpluck  at  the  rope; 
but  he  who  wins  with  heaven  is  the  man  who  grasps  the  rope 
boldly  and  pulls  continuously,  with  all  his  might. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


O  Thou  by  whom  we  come  to  God  — 

The  Life,  the  Truth,  the  Way  ; 
The  path  of  prayer  Thyself  hast  trod  ; 

Lord,  teach  us  how  to  pray. 

—  J.  Montgomery. 


When  we  pray  to  God  with  entire  assurance,  it  is  Himself  who 
has  given  us  the  spirit  of  prayer. 

—  St.  Cyprian. 


In  presenting  the  Divine  promises  at  the  throne  of  grace,  we 
present  the  best  of  names  at  a  bank  that  is  solvent.  Let  us, 
when  we  would  pray,  consider  well  whether  we  have  a  promise 
for  our  plea. 

—  R.  M.  Offord. 


Let  faith  each  meek  petition  fill, 

And  waft  it  to  the  skies  ; 
And  teach  our  heart  'tis  goodness  still 

That  grants  it  or  denies. 

—  J.  D.  Carlyle. 


A  certain  joyful,  though  humble,  confidence  becomes  us  when 
we  pray  in  the  Mediator's  name.  It  is  due  to  Him  ;  when  we 
pray  in  His  name  it  should  be  without  wavering.  Remember 
His  merits,  and  how  prevalent  they  must  be.  "  Let  us  there- 
fore come  boldly  to  the  throne  of  grace." 

—  Nehemiah  Adams. 


PRAYER.  461 

Good  prayers  never  come  creeping  home.     I  am  sure  I  shall 
receive  what  I  ask  for  or  what  I  should  ask. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


For  spiritual  blessings,  let  our  prayers  be  importunate,  per- 
petual, and  persevering ;  for  temporal  blessings,  let  them  be 
general,  short,  conditional,  and  modest. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


The  prayer  that  begins  with  trustfulness,  and  passes  on  into 
waiting,  even  while  in  sorrow  and  sore  need,  will  always  end  in 
thankfulness  and  triumph  and  praise. 

— ^  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Be  not  afraid  to  pray  —  to  pray  is  right. 

Pray  if  thou  canst  with  hope  ;  but  ever  pray. 
Though  hope  be  weak  or  sick  with  long  delay ; 

Pray  in  the  darkness,  if  there  be  no  light. 

—  Hartley  Coleridge. 


Ah,  what  is  it  we  send  up  thither,  where  our  thoughts  are 
either  a  dissonance  or  a  sweetness  and  a  grace  ? 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Patience  and  perseverance  are  never  more  thoroughly  Chris- 
tian graces  than  when  features  of  prayer. 

—  S.  Iren/Eus  Prime. 

Are  we  to  suppose  that  the  only  being  in  the  universe  who 
cannot  answer  prayer  is  that  One  who  alone  has  all  power  at 
His  command  ?  The  weak  theology  that  professes  to  believe 
that  prayer  has  merely  a  subjective  benefit  is  infinitely  less  sci- 
entific than  the  action  of  the  child  who  confidently  appeals  to  a 
Father  in  heaven. 

—  Prof.  Dawson, 


463  PRAYER. 

Cold  prayers  shall  never  have  any  warm  answers.  God  will 
suit  His  returns  to  our  requests.  Lifeless  services  shall  have 
lifeless  answers.     When  men  are  dull,  God  will  be  dumb. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Ah !  well  it  is  for  us  that  God  is  a  loving  Father,  Avho  takes 
our  very  prayers  and  thanksgivings  rather  for  what  we  vicaii 
than  for  what  they  arc;  just  as  parents  smile  on  the  trailing 
weeds  that  their  ignorant  little  ones  bring  them  for  flowers. 

—  Edward  Garrett. 


Then  let  us  earnest  be. 

And  never  faint  in  prayer ; 
He  loves  our  importunity, 

And  makes  our  cause  His  care. 

—  John  Newton. 


Expect  an  answer.    If  no  answer  is  desired,  why  pray  ?    True 
prayer  has  in  it  a  strong  element  of  expectancy. 

—  R.  M.  Offord. 


How  can  He  grant  you  what  you  do  not  desire  to  receive  .-^ 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Easiness  of  desire  is  a  great  enemy  to  the  success  of  a  good 
man's  prayer.  Our  prayers  upbraid  our  spirits  when  we  beg 
tamely  for  those  things  for  which  we  ought  to  die ;  which  are 
more  precious  than  imperial  sceptres,  richer  than  the  spoils  of 

the  sea  or  the  treasures  of  Indian  hills. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


The  reason  why  we  obtain  no  more  in  prayer,  is  because  we 
expect  no  more.  God  usually  answers  us  according  to  our  own 
hearts. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


PRAYER.  463 

My  words  fly  up,  my  thoughts  remain  below  ; 
Words  without  thoughts  never  to  heaven  go. 

—  Shakspeare. 


Every  prayer  is  a  wish,  but  wishes  are  not  prayers.  In  the 
heart  of  every  prayer  is  a  sense  of  need,  but  a  sense  of  need  is 
not  prayer.  Prayer  is  asking  for  a  felt  need ;  not  asking  the 
Universe,  but  God.  No  one  can  intelligently  ask  who  does  not 
believe  that  he  can  and  may  be  heard.  No  one  can  persever- 
ingly  ask,  who  thinks  that  asking  will  bring  nothing.  Persons 
who  believe  that  the  whole  influence  of  prayer  is  simply  the 
effect  of  their  own  thoughts  upon  themselves,  never  pray.  They 
cannot  pray.  The  mouth  may  utter  right  words  ;  the  heart  is 
not  in  them.  Some  prayers  are  not  prayers,  for  those  who  say 
them  do  not  really  wish  for  the  things  they  mention.  But  the 
difficulty  with  most  prayers  is  that  there  is  no  grasp  of  the  idea 
of  God  —  there  is  no  aski/ig.     ''  Ask,  and  ye  shall  receive." 

—  The  Christian  Advocate. 


There  is  much  seeking  for  God  that  does  not  amount  to 
searching  for  Him  with  all  the  heart.  There  is  much  praying, 
and  too  little  prayer.  There  are  many  petitions,  but  too  little 
expectation.  There  is  too  reckless  a  rushing  into  the  presence 
of  God,  and  too  little  patient  waiting  to  hear  what  He  will  speak. 
True  prayer  has  to  do  directly  with  the  infinitely  high  and  holy 
God  ;  and  true  prayer  ever  finds  Him,  and  in  finding  Him  gets 
all  that  Divine  wisdom  and  love  can  bestow  upon  the  seeker, 
consistently  with  God's  glory  and  the  creature's  highest  good. 
—  The  Christian  Intelligencer. 


He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best 

All  things  both  great  and  small : 
For  the  dear  God  who  loveth  us. 

He  made  and  loveth  all. 

—  Coleridge. 


464  PRAYER. 

He  that   loveth  little  prayeth   little ;    he   that  loveth  much 
prayeth  much. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


O  Lord,  we  rejoice  that  we  are  Thy  making,  though  Thy 
handiwork  is  not  very  clear  in  our  outer  man  as  yet.  We  bless 
Thee  that  we  feel  Thy  hand  making  us.  What  if  it  be  in 
pain }  Evermore  we  hear  the  voice  of  the  potter  above  the 
hum  and  grind  of  His  wheel.  Father,  Thou  only  knowest  how 
we  love  Thee.     Fashion  the  clay  to  Thy  beautiful  will. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Like  an  echo  from  a  ruined   castle,  prayer   is  an   echo  from 
the  ruined  human  soul  of  the  sweet  promise  of  God. 

—  Wm.  Arnot. 


He  who  has  a  pure  heart  will  never  cease  to  pray  ;  and  he 

who  will  be  constant  in  prayer,  shall  know  what  it  is  to  have  a 

pure  heart. 

—  La  Combe. 


As  in  poetry,  so  in  prayer,  the  whole  subject  matter  should 
be  furnished  by  the  heart,  and  the  understanding  should  be  al- 
lowed only  to  shape  and  arrange  the  effusions  of  the  heart  in 
the  manner  best  adapted  to  answer  the  end  designed.  From 
the  fullness  of  a  heart  overflowing  with  holy  affections,  as  from 
a  copious  fountain,  we  should  pour  forth  a  torrent  of  pious, 
humble,  and  ardently  affectionate  feelings  ;  while  our  under- 
standings only  shape  the  channel  and  teach  the  gushing  streams 
of  devotion  where  to  flow,  and  when  to  stop. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


^^  Continuing  instant  in  prayer."     The   Greek  is   a  metaphor 

taken  from  hunting   dogs   that  never  give  over  the  game  till 

they  have  got  their  prey. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


PRAYER.  465 

Have  you  never  observed  how  free  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  of 
any  material  that  can  tempt  to  subtle  self-inspection  in  the  art 
of  devotion  ?  It  is  full  of  an  outflowing  of  thought  and  of 
emotion  toward  great  objects  of  desire,  great  necessities,  and 
great  perils. 

—  Austin  Phelps. 


For  "we  know  not  what  we  should  pray  for  as  we  ought;  " 
but  love  leads  us  on,  abandons  us  to  all  the  operations  of 
grace,  puts  us  entirely  at  the  disposal  of  God's  will,  and  thus 
prepares  us  for  all  His  designs. 

—  Fenelon, 


Not  what  we  wish,  but  what  we  want, 

O  let  Thy  grace  supply  : 
The  good,  unasked,  in  mercy  grant, 

The  ill,  though  asked,  deny. 


There  is  something  in  every  act  of  prayer  that  for  a  time 
stills  the  violence  of  passion,  and  elevates  and  purifies  the 
affections. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


When  Christ  went  up  into  a  mountain  apart  to  pray.  He  dis- 
missed the  multitude,  to  teach  us  that  when  we  address  our- 
selves to  God,  we  must  first  dismiss  the  multitude.  We  must 
send  away  the  multitude  of  worldly  cares,  worldly  thoughts, 
worldly  concerns  and  business,  when  we  would  call  upon  God 
in  duty. 

BURKITT. 


Prayers  born  out  of  murmuring  are  always  dangerous.  When, 
therefore,  we  are  in  a  discontented  mood,  let  us  take  care  what 
we  cry  for,  lest  God  give  it  to  us,  and  thereby  punish  us. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 
3° 


466  PRAYER. 

I  think  that  if  we  would,  every  evening,  come  to  our  Master's 

feet,  and  tell  Him  where  we  have  been,  what  we  have  done, 

what  we  have  said,  and  what  were  the  motives  by  which  we  have 

been  actuated,  it  would  have  a  salutary  effect  upon  our  whole 

conduct. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


Prayer  is  so  necessary,  and  the  source  of  so  many  blessings, 
that  he  who  has  discovered  the  treasure  cannot  be  prevented 
from  having  recourse  to  it,  whenever  he  has  an  opportunity. 

—  Fenelon. 


Religion    is  no  more  possible  without    prayer  than  poetry 
Avithout  language,  or  music  without  atmosphere. 

—  James  Martineau. 


There  is  no  burden  of  the  spirit  but  is  lightened  by  kneeling 
under  it.  Little  by  little,  the  bitterest  feelings  are  sweetened 
by  the  mention  of  them  in  prayer.  •  And  agony  itself  stops 
swelling,  if  we  can  only  cry  sincerely,  "  My  God,  my  God  !" 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


Lord !  Thou  art  with  Thy  people  still ;  they  see  Thee  in  the 
night-watches,  and  their  hearts  burn  within  them  as  Thou  talkest 
with  them  by  the  way.  And  Thou  art  near  to  those  that  have 
not  known  Thee  ;  open  their  eyes  that  they  may  see  Thee  —  see 
'Thee  weeping  over  them,  and  saying,  "  Ye  will  not  come  unto 
me  that  ye  might  have  life  " —  see  Thee  hanging  on  the  cross 
and  saying,  "  Father,  forgive  them,  for  they  know  not  what  they 
do  " — see  Thee  as  Thou  wilt  come  again  in  Thy  glory  to  judge 
them  at  the  last.     Amen. 

—  George  Eliot. 

Trouble  and  perplexity  drive  me  to  prayer,  and  prayer  drives 

away  perplexity  and  trouble. 

—  Melanchthon. 


PRAYER.  467 

Prayer,  with  our  Lord,  was  a  refuge  from  the  storm  ;  ahiiost 

every  word  He  uttered  during  that  last  tremendous  scene  was 

prayer  ;  prayer    the  most  earnest,  the  most   urgent,  repeated, 

continued,  proceeding  from   the  recesses  of  the  soul,  private, 

solitary  ;    prayer  for  deliverance,  prayer  for   strength  ;   above 

every  thing  prayer  for  resignation. 

—  William  Paley. 


By  Thine  agony  and  bloody  sweat ;  by  Thy  cross  and  pas- 
sion ;  by  Thy  precious  death  and  burial ;  by  Thy  glorious  res- 
urrection and  ascension  ;  and  by  the  coming  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 

good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


From  coldness  to  Thy  merits  and  death,  from  error  and  mis- 
understanding, from  the  loss  of  our  glory  in  Thee,  from  the  un- 
happy desire  of  becoming  great,  from  self-complacency,  from 
untimely  projects,  from  needless  perplexity,  from  the  murmur- 
ing spirit  and  devices  of  Satan,  from  the  influence  of  the  spirit 
of  this  world,  from  hypocrisy  and  fanaticism,  from  the  deceit- 
fulness  of  sin  —  preserve  us,  gracious  Lord  ! 

—  Moravian  Litany. 


We  kneel,  how  weak  ;  we  rise,  how  full  of  power  ! 

W^hy,  therefore,  should  we  do  ourselves  this  wrong, 

Or  others  —  that  we  are  not  always  strong. 
That  we  are  ever  overborne  with  care. 

That  we  should  ever  weak  or  heartless  be, 
Anxious  or  troubled,  when  with  us  is  prayer, 

And  joy  and  strength  and  courage  are  with  Thee  } 

—  Trench, 


We  shall  all  find,  by  and  by,  that  the  most  natural  thing  in 
the  world  for  all  wisdom  to  do  is  to  sit  at  the  feet  of  Christ,  and 
ask  for  that  which  nothing  else  than  prayer  can  compass. 


468  PRAYER. 

I  have  been  driven  many  times  to  my  knees,  by  the  over- 
whehning  conviction  that  I  had  nowhere  else  to  go.  My  own 
wisdom,  and  that  of  all  about  me  seemed  insufficient  for  that 
day. 

—  Abraham  Lincoln. 


The  Divine  Wisdom  has  given  us  prayer,  not  as  a  means 
whereby  to  obtain  the  good  things  of  earth,  but  as  a  means 
whereby  we  learn  to  do  without  them  ;  not  as  a  means  whereby 
we  escape  evil,  but  as  a  means  whereby  we  become  strong  to 
meet  it. 

—  F,  W.  Robertson. 


Prayer  will  make  a  man  cease   from  sin,  or  sin  will  entice  a 
man  to  cease  from  prayer. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


The  church  converteth  the  whole  world  by  blood  and  prayer. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Happy  are  they  who  freely  mingle  prayer  and  toil  till  God 
responds  to  the  one  and  rewards  the  other. 

—  S.  Iren^us  Prime. 


From  the  violence  and  rule  of  passion,  from  a  servile  will, 
and  a  commanding  lust,  from  pride  and  vanity,  from  false  opin- 
ion and  ignorant  confidence ;  from  improvidence  and  prodigal- 
ity, from  envy  and  the  spirit  of  slander  ;  from  sensuality,  from 
presumption  and  from  despair ;  from  a  state  of  temptation  and 
a  hardened  spirit ;  from  delaying  of  repentance  and  persever- 
ing in  sin  ;  from  unthankfulness  and  irreligion,  and  from  seduc- 
ing others  ;  from  all  infatuation  of  soul,  folly,  and  madness  ; 
from  willfulness,  self-love,  and  vain  ambition  ;  from  a  vicious 
life  and  an  unprovided  death,  good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


PRAYER,  409 

Faithful  prayer  always  implies  correlative  exertion  ;  and  no 
man  can  ask  honestly  and  hopefully  to  be  delivered  from  temp- 
tation, unless  he  has  himself  honestly  and  firmly  determined  to 
do  the  best  he  can  to  keep  out  of  it. 

—  John  Ruskix. 


Whatever  we  are  directed  to  pray  for,  we  are  also  exhorted 
to  work  for  ;  we  are  not  permitted  to  mock  Jehovah,  asking 
that  of  Him  which  we  deem  not  worth  our  pains  to  acquire. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Prayer  was  never  meant  to  be  a  substitute  for  labor  —  an 
easy  way  of  throwing  our  responsibilities  upon  God.  The  old 
classic  story  of  the  teamster  whose  cart  stuck  in  the  mud,  and 
who  fell  to  crying  to  Hercules  for  help  instead  of  using  effort 
himself,  and  was  told  by  the  god  he  invoked  to  put  his  own 
shoulder  to  the  wheel,  shows  that  even  a  heathen  mind  could 
see  that  faith  was  never  meant  to  exclude  works. 


When  we  pray  for  any  virtue,  we  should  cultivate  the  virtue 
as  well  as  pray  for  it ;  the  form  of  your  prayers  should  be  the 
rule  of  your  life  ;  every  petition  to  God  is  a  precept  to  man. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Sometimes  a  fog  will  settle  over  a  vessel's  deck  and  yet  leave 
the  topmast  clear.  Then  a  sailor  goes  up  aloft  and  gets  a  look- 
out which  the  helmsman  on  deck  cannot  get.  So  prayer  sends 
the  soul  aloft  ;  lifts  it  above  the  clouds  in  which  our  selfishness 
and  egotism  befog  us,  and  gives  us  a  chance  to  see  which  way 
to  steer. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Every  praying  Christian  will  find  that  there  is  no  Gethsemane 
without  its  angel. 

—  Binney. 


470  PRAYER. 

Not  every  hour,  nor  every  day,  perhaps,  can  generous  wishes 

ripen  into  kind  actions  ;  but  there  is  not  a  moment  that  cannot 

be  freighted  with  prayer. 

^Wm.  Mountford. 


Ejaculations  are  short  prayers  darted  up  to  God  on  emer- 
gent occasions.  They  are  the  artillery  of  devotion,  and  their 
principal  use  is  against  the  fiery  darts  of  the  devil. 

—  Thomas  Fuller. 

I  like  ejaculatory  prayer ;  it  reaches  heaven  before  the  devil 
can  get  a  shot  at  it. 

—  Rowland  Hill.- 


When  does  the  building  of  the  Spirit  really  begin  to  appear 
in  a  man's  heart  ?  It  begins,  so  far  as  we  can  judge,  when  he 
first  pours  out  his  heart  to  God  in  prayer. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


There  is  nothing  about  which  a  young  Christian  should  be 
more  anxious  than  maintaining  the  spirit,  the  love,  the  practice 
of  private  prayer  ;  and  nothing  which  should  more  seriously 
alarm  him  than  any  disposition  to  neglect  it. 

—  John  Angel  James. 

There  it  is  —  in  such  patient  silence  —  that  we  accumulate 
the  inward  power  which  we  distribute  and  spend  in  action  ; 
that  the  soul  acquires  a  greater  and  more  vigorous  being,  and 
gathers  up  its  collective  forces  to  bear  down  upon  the  piece- 
meal difficulties  of  life  and  scatter  them  to  dust  ;  there  alone 
can  we  enter  into  that  spirit  of  self-abandonment  by  which  we 
take  up  the  cross  of  duty,  however  heavy,  with  feet  however 
worn  and  bleeding. 

— Wavland  Hoyt. 


PRAYER.  471 

Private  prayer  is  so  far  from  being  a  hindrance  to  a  man's 
business,  that  it  is  the  way  of  ways  to  bring  down  a  blessing 
from  heaven  upon  it. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


If  a?iy  prayer  be  a  duty,  then  secret  prayer  must  be  superla- 
tively so,  for  it  prepares  and  fits  the  soul  for  all  other  supplica- 
tion. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


A  house  without  family  worship  has  neither  foundation  nor 
covering. 

—  J.  M.  Mason. 


Wise  is  that  Christian  parent  who  begins  every  morning  with 
the  word  of  God  and  fervent  prayer. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Let  family  worship  be  short,  savory,  simple,   plain,  tender, 
heavenly. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Ask  in  simplicity.  True  need  forgets  to  be  formal.  Its  ut- 
terances fly  from  the  heart  as  sparks  from  a  blacksmith's  anvil. 
Set  phrases,  long  sentences,  polysyllabic  words,  find  little  favor 
with  the  soul  that  is  athirst  for  God  and  His  grace.  How  brief 
are  the  sentences  of  the  immortal  and  immutable  prayer,  which 
Christ  taught  His  disciples  !  Not  a  long  word  is  there.  Temp- 
tation is  the  longest,  and  the  majority  of  the  words  are  of  one 
syllable.  Do  you  essay  to  lead  others  in  prayer?  Utter  no 
word  that  any  that  hear  you  cannot  understand.  Express  their 
need  as  well  as  your  own.  Do  not  go  to  the  mercy-seat  on 
stilts. 

—  R.  M.  Offord. 


Lord,  teach  us  to  pray. 


472  PRAYER. 

Blessed  Jesus,  I  am  but  a  lamb,  and  often  fear  I  shall  never 
be  any  thing  better,  but  perish  as  I  am.  Lord,  take  me  in  the 
arms  of  Thy  power  and  lay  me  on  the  bosom  of  Thy  love; 
though  I  am  so  poor  and  inconsiderable  a  creature  I  will  hope 
in  Thy  pastoral  power  and  love,  that  I  shall  not  only  continue, 
but  grow,  and  that  Thou  wilt  one  day  rejoice  in  me  as  one  of 
the  flock  which  Thou  hast  purchased  with  Thy  own  blood. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


Our  public  prayers  too  often  consist  almost  entirely  of  pas- 
sages of  Scripture  —  not  always  judiciously  chosen  or  well  ar- 
ranged—  and  common-place  phrases,  which  have  been  trans- 
mitted down  for  ages,  from  one  generation  to  another,  selected 
and  put  together  just  as  we  would  compose  a  sermon  or  essay, 
while  the  heart  is  allowed  no  share  in  the  performance  ;  so  that 
we  may  more  properly  be  said  to  make  a  prayer  than  to  pray. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


Let  your  prayers  be  composed  of  thanksgiving,  praise,  con- 
fession, and  petition,  without  any  argument  or  exhortation  ad- 
dressed to  those  who  are  supposed  to  be  praying  with  you. 
Adopt  no  fixed  forms  of  expression,  except  such  as  you  obtain 
from  Scripture.  Express  your  desire  in  the  briefest,  simplest 
form,  without  circumlocution.  Hallow  God's  name  by  avoiding 
its  unnecessary  repetition.  Adopt  the  simple  devotional  phrases 
of  Scripture  ;  but  avoid  the  free  use  of  its  figures,  and  all  quaint 
and  doubtful  application  of  its  terms  to  foreign  subjects.    Pray 

to  God  and  not  to  man. 

—  J.  Addison  Alexander. 


If  you  are  in  the  spirit  of  prayer,  do  not  be  long,  because 
other  people  will  not  be  able  to  keep  pace  with  you  m  such  un- 
usual spirituality,  and  if  you  are  not  in  the  spirit  of  prayer,  do 
not  be  long,  because  you  will  be  sure  to  weary  the  listeners. 

—  John  MacDonald. 


PRAYER.  473 

In  the  primitive  church  were  not  prayers  simple,  unpremed- 
itated, united ;  prayers  of  the  well-taught  apostle  ;  prayers  of 
the  accomplished  scholar  ;  prayers  of  the  rough  but  fervent 
peasant ;  prayers  of  the  new  and  zealous  convert  ;  prayers 
which  importuned  and  wrestled  with  an  instant  and  irrepressi- 
ble urgency  ;  —  were  they  not  an  essential  part  of  that  religion, 
which  holy  fire  had  kindled,  and  which  daily  supplications 
alone  could  fan  ? 

—  William  Arthur. 


God's  hearing  of  our  prayers  does  not  depend  upon  sanctifi- 
cation,  but  upon  Christ's  intercession  ;  not  upon  what  we  are 
in  ourselves,  but  what  we  are  in  the  Lord  Jesus  ;  both  our  per- 
sons and  our  prayers  are  accepted  in  the  Beloved. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Your  child  is  falling  from  a  window.  By  the  action  of  a  nat- 
ural law  he  will  be  killed.  But  he  cries  out  for  help,  "  Father  ! 
father!"  Hearing  his  call,  in  this  his  day  of  trouble,  you  rush 
forth  and  catch  him  in  your  arms.  Your  child  is  saved.  Nat- 
ural law  would  have  killed  him,  but  you  interposed,  and,  with- 
out a  miracle,  saved  him.  And  cannot  the  great  Father  of  all 
do  what  an  earthly  parent  does  ? 

—  Newman  Hall. 


They  tell  us  of  the  fixed  laws  of  nature  !  but  who  dares 
maintain  that  He  who  fixed  these  laws  cannot  use  them  for  the 
purpose  of  answering  His  people's  prayers? 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


There  is  no  such  thing  in  the  long  history  of  God's  kingdom 
as  an  unanswered  prayer.  Every  true  desire  from  a  child's 
heart  finds  some  true  answer  in  the  heart  of  God. 

—  Norman  Macleod. 


474  PRAYER. 

Unanswered  yet  ?     Faith  cannot  be  unanswered. 
Her  feet  were  firmly  planted  on  the  Rock  ; 
Amid  the  wildest  storms  she  stands  undaunted, 
Nor  quails  before  the  loudest  thunder  shock. 
She  knows  Omnipotence  has  heard  her  prayer, 
And  cries,  "It shall  be  done,"  sometime,  somewhere. 

Unanswered  yet  ?     Nay,  do  not  say  ungranted  ; 

Perhaps  your  part  is  not  yet  wholly  done. 

The  work  began  when  first  your  prayer  was  uttered, 

And  God  will  finish  what  He  has  begun. 

If  you  will  keep  the  incense  burning  there. 

His  glory  you  shall  see  sometime,  somewhere. 

—  Robert  Browning. 


Answered  prayers  cover  the  field  of  providential  history  as 
flowers  cover  western  prairies. 

—  T.   L.  CUYLER. 


I  have  lived  to  thank  God  that  all  my  prayers  have  not  been 
answered. 

—  Jean  Ingelow. 


Are  we  silent  to  Jesus }  Think  !  Have  you  nothing  to  ask 
Him?  Nothing  to  thank  Him  for.'  Nothing  to  praise  Him 
for  ?  Nothing  to  confess  ?  Oh,  poor  soul,  go  back  to  Beth- 
lehem—  to  Gethsemane,  to  Calvary,  and  remember  at  what  a 
cost  the  vail  before  the  Holies  was  rent  in  twain  that  thou 
mightest  enter  it. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


God  commands  you  to  pray.  That  is  your  duty.  Nothing 
can  excuse  you  from  it.  Wicked  heart,  as  you  may  have,  God 
commands  you  to  pray.  God  connects  His  promise  with  this 
command.  You  have  no  right  to  separate  them.  The  promise 
and  the  command  stand  together. 


PRAYER-MEETINGS.  475 


Saviour,  breathe  an  evening  blessing 

Ere  repose  our  spirits  seal ; 
Sin  and  want  we  come  confessing  ; 

Thou  canst  save,  and  Thou  canst  heal. 

—  James  Edmeston. 

If  I  were  an  impenitent  child  of  godly  parents,  and  should 
die  so,  I  would  rather  go  into  eternity  facing  a  legion  of  devils 
than  my  mother's  prayers.  — Herrick  Johnson. 


In  eternity  it  will  be  a  terrible  thing  for  many  a  man  to  meet 
his  own  prayers.  Their  very  language  will  condemn  him  ;  for 
he  knew  his  duty,  but  he  did  it  not. 

—  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


PRAYER-MEETINGS. 

I  look  upon  prayer-meetings  as  the  most  profitable  exercises 
(excepting  the  public  preaching)  in  which  Christians  can  en- 
gage. They  have  a  direct  tendency  to  kill  a  worldly,  trifling 
spirit,  and  to  draw  down  a  Divine  blessing  upon  all  our  con- 
cerns, compose  differences,  and  enkindle  (at  least  maintain) 
the  flames  of  Divine  love  amongst  brethren. 

—  John  Newton. 


"  How  do  you  make  your  prayer-meetings  interesting  ?  "  The 
whole  subject  is  mixed  up.  "  Interesting  "  to  whom  ?  The 
Lord  ?  The  suppliants  .-■  The  spectators  ?  The  only  way  is 
to  teach  men  to  pray  ;  to  eliminate  those  who  preach  or  rhap- 
sodize or  scold  or  "  lament  "  interminably ,  to  promote  gen- 
eral fervor  among  the  people,  and  apply  to  the  meeting  the  or- 
dinary principles  of  common  sense. 

—  John  Hall. 

And  it  came  to  pass  that  while  they  communed  together  and 
reasoned,  Jesus  Himself  drew  near. 


476  PREACHING. 


A  short  speech  with  a  man  behind  it,  and  with  truth  in  it  — 

truth  that  you  back  up  by  your  Hfe,  that  is  what  is  needed  in 

the  prayer-meeting. 

—  The  National  Baptist. 


PREACHING. 

Jesus  chose  this  method  of  extending  the  knowledge  of  Him- 
self throughout  the  world ;  He  taught  His  truth  to  a  few  men, 
and  then  He  said,  "  Now  go  and  tell  that  truth  to  other  men." 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Remember,  there  are  only  a  few  model  preachers.  We  have 
read  of  only  one  perfect  Model,  and  He  was  crucified  many 
centuries  ago. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler. 


The  object  of  preaching  is,  constantly  to  remind  mankind  of 
what  mankind  are  constantly  forgetting  ;  not  to  supply  the  de- 
fects of  human  intelligence,  but  to  fortify  the  feebleness  of  hu- 
man resolutions  ;  to  recall  mankind  from  the  by-paths  where 
they  turn,  into  that  broad  path  of  salvation  which  all  know, 
but  few  tread. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


It  is  easier  to  declaim  like  an  orator  against  a  thousand  sins 
in  others  than  to  mortify  one  sin  in  ourselves  ;  to  be  more  in- 
dustrious in  our  pulpits  than  in  our  closets ;  to  preach  twenty 
sermons  to  our  people  than  one  to  our  own  hearts. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Language  the  most  forcible  proceeds  from  the  man  who  is 
most  sincere.  The  way  to  speak  with  power,  or  to  write  words 
that  pierce  mankind  to  the  quick,  is  to  speak  and  write  honestly. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon, 


PREACHING.  477 


I  can  easier  teach  twenty  what  were  good  to  be  done,  than 
to  be  one  of  the  twenty  to  follow  mine  own  teachings. 

—  Shakspeare. 


His  words  had  power  because  they  accorded  with  his 
thoughts  ;  and  his  thoughts  had  reality  and  depth  because  they 
harmonized  with  the  life  he  had  always  lived.  It  was  not 
mere  breath  that  this  preacher  uttered  ;  they  were  the  words 
of  life,  because  a  life  of  good  deeds  and  holy  love  was  melted 
into  them.  Pearls,  pure  and  rich,  had  been  dissolved  into  the 
precious  draught. 

—  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 


Let   him  who    would    move   and   convince   others,    be    first 
moved  and  convinced  himself. 

—  T.  L,  Cuyler. 


Always  carry  with  you  into  the  pulpit  a  sense  of  the  immense 
consequences  which  may  depend  on  your  full  and  faithful  pres- 
entation of  the  truth. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


The  orator  is  thereby  an  orator  that  he  keeps  his  feet   ever 
on  a  fact. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


Settle  in  your  mind,  that  no  sermon  is  worth  much  in  which 
the  Lord  is  not  the  principal  speaker.  There  may  be  poetry, 
refinement,  historic  truth,  moral  truth,  pathos,  and  all  the 
charms  of  rhetoric  ;  but  all  will  be  lost,  for  the  purposes  of 
preaching,  if  the  word  of  the  Lord  is  not  the  staple  of  the  dis- 
course. 

—  John  Hall. 


Every  sermon  ought  to  have  the  doctrine  of   Christ  in  it 
in  form  or  in  solution. 


478  PREACHING. 


To  get,  then,  the  mind  of  Christ,  and  to   declare  it,  is  the 

primary  end  of  the  teaching  ofifices  of  the  church.     The  living 

body  of  sympathetic  men,  saturated  with  the  truth  and  feeling 

of    the    Book,   must    bring  it    into   contact   with    other   men, 

through  that  marvelous  organ  the  human  voice,  and  with  such 

aid  as  comes  from  the  subtle  sympathy  that  pervades  assemblies 

of  human  beings. 

—  John  Hall. 


Every  sermon  must   have  a  solid  rest   in   Scripture,  and  the 

pointedness  which  comes  of  a  clear  subject,  and  the  conviction 

which  belongs  to  well-thought  argument,  and  the  warmth  that 

proceeds  from  earnest  appeal. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


Let  us  never  forget  that,  to  be  profited,  that  is,  to  be  spirit- 
ually improved  in  knowledge,  faith,  holiness,  joy,  and  love,  is 
the  end  of  hearing  sermons,  and  not  merely  to  have  our  taste 
gratified  by  genius,  eloquence,  and  oratory. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


The  most  intelligent  hearers  are  those  who  enjoy  most  heart- 
ily the  simplest  preaching.  It  is  not  they  who  clamor  for  su- 
perlatively intellectual  or  aesthetic  sermons.  Daniel  Webster 
used  to  complain  of  some  of  the  preaching  to  which  he  listened. 
"  In  the  house  of  God  "  he  wanted  to  meditate  "  upon  the  sim- 
ple varieties,  and  the  undoubted  facts  of  religion  ;"  not  upon 

mysteries  and  abstractions. 

—  Austin  Phelps. 


Tell  men  that  God  is  love ;  that  right  is  right,  and  wrong, 

wrong  ;  let  them  cease  to  admire  philanthropy,  and  begin  to 

love  men  ;  cease  to  pant  for  heaven,  and  begin  to  love  God ; 

then  the  spirit  of  liberty  begins. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


PREACHING.  479 


But  even  genuine  argument  for  the  truth  is  not  preaching  the 
gospel,  neither  is  he  whose  unbeUef  is  thus  assailed  likely  to  be 
brought  thereby  into  any  mood  but  one  unfit  for  receiving  it. 
Argument  should  be  kept  to  books;  preachers  ought  to  have  noth- 
ing to  do  with  it, —  at  all  events  in  the  pulpit.  There  let  them 
hold  forth  light,  and  let  him,  who  will,  receive  it,  and  him  who 
will  not,  forbear.     God  only  can  convince. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


I  would  have  every  minister  of  the  gospel  address  his 
audience  with  the  zeal  of  a  friend,  with  the  generous  energy  of 
a  father,  and  with  the  exuberant  affection  of  a  mother. 

—  Fenelon. 

The  accent  of  conviction  is  made  up  of  a  mixture  of  faith, 
power,  and  love  combined,  forming  a  characteristic  which  is  at 
once  simple,  pious,  and  grand,  redolent  of  inspiration  and 
sanctity. 


Here  are  no  fabulous  joys  and  woes;  no  hollow,  fantastic 
sentimentalities  ;  no  wire-drawn  refinings,  either  in  thought  or 
feeling;  the  passion  that  is  traced  before  us  has  glowed  in  a 
living  heart  ;  the  opinion  he  utters  has  risen  in  his  own  under- 
standing, and  been  a  light  to  his  own  steps. 

—  T.  Carlyle. 


Direct  your  arrows  at  objects  without  being  personal  ;  come 
near  your  hearers.  Letters  dropped  into  the  post-office  without 
address  go  to  the  dead-letter  office,  and  are  of  no  use  to  any 
body.  — John  Hall. 


I  preached  right  to  their  consciences,  and  the  result  was  a 
great  revival  of  religion  came  up  there;  and  after  that  I  never 
heard  any  thing  about  infidelity. 

—  Lyman  Beecher. 


480  PREACHING. 


I  like  to  go  and  hear  Rowland  Hill,  because  his  ideas  come 

red-hot  from  the  heart. 

—  R.  B.  Sheridan. 


The  truth  is,  no  preaching  ever  had  any  strong  power  that 
was  not  the  preaching  of  doctrine.  The  preachers  that  have 
moved  and  held  men  have  always  preached  doctrine.  No  ex- 
hortation to  a  good  life  that  does  not  put  behind  it  some  truth 
as  deep  as  eternity  can  seize  and  hold  the  conscience.  Preach 
doctrine,  preach  all  the  doctrine  that  you  know,  and  learn  for- 
ever more  and  more;  but  preach  it  always,  not  that  men  may 
believe  it,  but  that  they  may  be  saved  by  believing  it. 

—  Phillips  Brooks. 


To  preach  practical  sermons  as  they  are  called,  that  is,  ser- 
mons upon  virtues  and  vices,  without  inculcating  those  great 
Scripture  truths  of  redemption,  grace,  etc.,  which  alone  can  in- 
cite and  enable  us  to  forsake  sin  and  follow  after  righteousness, 
what  is  it  but  to  put  together  the  wheels,  and  set  the  hands  of 
a  watch,  forgetting  the  spring,  which  is  to  make  them  all  go  ? 

—  Bishop  Horne. 


Avoid  all  controversy  in  preaching,  talking,  or  writing  ;  preach 
nothing  down  but  the  devil,  and  nothing  up  but  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Berridge. 


The  old  fable  tells  us  of  a  boy  who  mounted  a  scavenger's 
cart  with  base  intent  to  throw  dirt  at  the  moon  ;  whereat 
another  boy,  with  better  intentions,  but  scarcely  less  folly,  came 
running  with  a  basin  of  water  to  wash  the  moon,  and  make  its 
face  clean  again.  Certain  skeptics  are  forever  inventing  new 
infidelities  with  which  they  endeavor  to  defile  the  fair  face  of 
the  gospel,  and  many  ministers  forsake  the  preaching  of  Christ 
and  Him  crucified,  to  answer  their  endless  quibbles  ;  to  both  of 
these  the  ancient  fable  may  be  instructive. 


PREACHING.  481 


If  the  truth  were  known,  many  sermons   are   prepared  and 
preached  with  more  regard  for  the  sermon  than  the  souls  of  the 

hearers. 

—  George  F.  Pentecost. 


His  admired  discourses  remind   me  of  the  colored  shavings 
with  which  we  fill  empty  grates  in  the  summer  time. 

—  Lynch. 


Elegance    of  language    must  give  way  before  simplicity  in 
preaching  sound  doctrine. 

—  Savonarola. 


Embellish  truth  only  with  a  view  to  gain  it  the  more  full  and 
free  admission  into  your  hearer's  minds  ;  and  your  ornaments 
will,  in  that  case,  be  simple,  masculine,  natural. 

—  Blair, 


Style  should  be  like  window-glass,  perfectly  transparent,  and 
with  very  little  sash. 

—  Emmons. 


Style  is    the    gossamer  on    which    the   seeds  of  truth  float 
through  the  world. 

—  George  Bancroft. 


The  greatest  thoughts  are  wronged,  if  not  linked  to  beauty ; 
and  they  win  their  way  most  surely  and  deeply  into  the  soul 
when  arranged  in  this  their  natural  and  fit  attire. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


You  don't  want  a  diction  gathered  from  the  newspapers, 
caught  from  the  air,  common  and  unsuggestive  ;  but  you  want 
one  whose  every  word  is  full-freighted  with  suggestion  and  as- 
sociation, with  beauty  and  power, 

—  RuFus  Choate, 
31 


482  PREACHING. 


John  Bunyan,  while  he  had  a  surpassing  genius,  would  not 

condescend  to  cull  his  language  from   the  garden  of  flowers ; 

but  he  went  into  the  hayfield  and  the  meadow,  and  plucked  up 

his  language  by  the  roots,  and  spoke  out  in  the  words  that  the 

people  used  in  their  cottages. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  great  bell  of  Moscow  is  too  large  to  be  hung,  the  ques- 
tion arises,  what  was  the  use  of  making  it  ?  Some  preachers  are 
so  learned  that  they  cannot  make  themselves  understood,  or 
else  cannot  bring  their  minds  to  preach  plain,  gospel  sermons  ; 
here,  too,  the  same  question  might  be  asked. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


It  is  a  great  mistake  to  think  any  thing  too  profound  or  rich 
for  a  popular  audience.  No  train  of  thought  is  too  deep,  or  sub- 
tle, or  grand  —  but  the  manner  of  presenting  it  to  their  untu- 
tored minds  should  be  peculiar.  It  should  be  presented  in 
anecdote,  or  sparkling  truism,  or  telling  illustration,  or  stinging 
epithet  ;  always  in  some  concrete  form,  never  in  a  logical,  ab- 
stract, syllogistic  shape. 

—  RuFUS  Choate. 


In  general,  rely  mainly  on  Scriptural  arguments,  and  prefer 

those  that  are  plain  and  unquestionable. 

—  Broadus. 


The  text  should  sustain,  suggest,  and  give  tone  to  the  ser- 
mon. The  main  thought  of  the  text  should  usually  be  the 
main  thought  of  the  sermon.     A  text  must  not  be  a  pretext. 

—  John  Hall. 


Never  confine  yourself  to  the  contemplation  of  themes. 
Make  themes  your  means  for  reaching  persons  ;  and  give  the 
mind  force  by  giving  it  concentration. 


PREACHING.  483 


When  a  preacher  was  censured  by  his  brethren  for  the   bad 

habit  of  exaggeration,  he  assured  them  he  had  "  often  bitterly 

repented  of  it;  it  had  cost  him  barrels  of  tears."     For  such  a 

case  there  is  no  cure. 

—  The  New  York  Observer. 


Whether  you  do  your  work  with  notes  or  without  them,  do 
it  courageously,  earnestly,  with  devotion  ;  with  a  glad  sense  of 
the  greatness  of  it,  and  a  full  consecration  of  every  force  and 
faculty  to  it. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


We  doubt  whether  a  man   ever  brings  his  faculties  to  bear 
with  their  whole  force  on  a  subject,  until  he  writes  upon  it. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


A  leading  Welsh  minister  —  and  Welsh  ministers  are,  I  think, 
among  the  best  preachers  —  was  invited  to  preach  an  anniver- 
sary sermon  before  one  of  the  great  societies  in  London.  Na- 
turally anxious  to  disregard  no  propriety,  he  consulted  the 
proper  authority,  the  secretary.  "  Should  I  read  my  sermon  ?  " 
"Oh,  it  is  no  matter,  only  bring  some  of  your  Welsh  fire  with 
you."  "  But  you  cannot,  my  dear  sir,  carry  fire  on  paper." 
"  No,  that  is  true ;  but  you  may  use  the  paper  to  kindle  the 
fire." 

—  John  Hall. 


If  any  of  you  ever  go  into  the  pulpit  "  simply  upon  the  cold 
legs  of  custom,"  be  very  careful  to  take  a  manuscript  with  you. 
But  if  you  go  to  speak  to  the  assembly  because  your  mind  is 
full  of  the  truth,  and  you  long  to  impart  that  truth  to  them, 
for  their  sake  and  for  God's  sake,  —  then  charge  your  mind  with 
it,  and  speak  with  all  the  force  you  can  give  it,  without  any 
notes. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


484  PREJUDICE  — PRIDE. 

I  verily  believe  that  the  kingdom  of  God  advances  more  on 
spoken  words  than  it  does  on  essays  written  and  read  ;  on 
words,  that  is,  in  which  the  present  feeling  and  thought  of  the 
teaching  mind  break  into  natural  and  forceful  expression. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


Let  the  sermon  thou  hast  heard  be  converted  into  prayer, 

—  John  Bunyan. 


Be   short  in  all  religious  exercises.     Better  leave  the  people 
longing  than  loathing.    No  conversions  after  the  first  Jialf  hour. 

—  Emmons. 


PREJUDICE. 

When  we  destroy  an  old   prejudice,  we  have  need  of  a  new 
virtue. 

—  Madame  de  Stael. 


PRIDE. 
Pride  is  the  master  sin  of  the  devil. 


E.  H.  Chapin. 


Pride  is  not  the  heritage  of  man  ;    humility  should  dwell 
with  frailty,  and  atone  for  ignorance,  error,  and  imperfection. 

—  Sydney  Smith. 


There  is  no  passion  that  steals  into  the  heart  more  imper- 
ceptibly and  covers  itself  under  more  disguises  than  pride. 

—  Addison. 


It  is  with  men  as  with  wheat ;  the  light  heads  are  erect  even 
in  the  presence  of  Omnipotence,  but  the  full  heads  bow  in  rev- 
erence before  Him. 

—  Joseph  Cook. 


PRIDE.  485 

We  rise  in  glory  as  we  sink  in  pride. 

—  Young. 


Pride  breakfasted  with  Plenty,  dined  with  Poverty,  and  sup- 
ped with  Infamy. 

—  Franklin. 


Pride  looks  back  upon  its  past  deeds,  and  calculating  with 
nicety  what  it  has  done,  it  commits  itself  to  rest ;  whereas  hu- 
mility looks  to  that  which  is  before,  and  discovering  how  much 
ground  remains  to  be  trodden,  it  is  active  and  vigilant.  Hav- 
ing gained  one  height,  pride  looks  down  with  complacency  on 
that  which  is  beneath  it ;  humility  looks  up  to  a  higher  and  yet 
higher  elevation.  The  one  keeps  us  on  this  earth,  which  is 
congenial  to  its  nature  ;  the  other  directs  our  eye,  and  tends  to 
lift  us  up  to  heaven. 

—  James  McCosh. 

Pride  is  the  growth  of  blindness  and  darkness  ;  humility,  the 
product  of  light  and  knowledge  ;  and  whilst  pride  has  its  origin 
in  a  mistaken  or  delusive  estimate  of  things,  humility  is  as  much 
the  offspring  of  truth  as  the  parent  of  virtue. 


Spiritual  pride  is  the  worst  of  all  pride,  if  it  is  not  the  Avorst 
snare  of  the  devil.  The  heart  is  peculiarly  deceitful  on  just 
this  one  thing. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


If  thou  desire  the  love  of  God  and  man,  be  humble  ;  for  the 
proud  heart  as  it  loves  none  but  itself,  so  it  is  beloved  of  none 
but  itself.  The  voice  of  humility  is  God's  music,  and  the 
silence  of  humility  is  God's  rhetoric.  Humility  enforces  where 
neither  virtue  nor  strength  can  prevail,  nor  reason. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 

Where  boasting  ends,  there  dignity  begins. 


486  PROCRASTINATION  —  PROFANITY. 

Sinners,  remember  this  :     It  is  not  so  much  the  sense  of  your 

unworthiness  as    your  pride  that  keeps  you   from   a  blessed 

closing  with  the  Saviour. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 

Of  all  the  marvelous  works  of  God,  perhaps  there  is  nothing 
that  angels  behold  with  such  astonishment  as  a  proud  man. 

C.   C.  COLTON. 


By  ignorance  is  pride  increased  ; 
They  most  assume  who  know  the  least. 

—  John  Gay. 


He  who  thinks  his  place  below  him  will  certainly  be  below 

his  place. 

—  Sir  H.  Savile. 


PROCRASTINATION. 

God  has  promised  forgiveness  to  your  repentance  ;  but  He 
has  not  promised  to-morrow  to  your  procrastination. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Faith  in  to-morrow  instead  of  Christ,  is  Satan's  nurse  for 

man's  perdition. 

—  Geo.  B.  Cheever. 


Do  you  want  to  learn  holiness  with  terrible  struggles  and 
sore  affliction   and  the  plague  of  much  remaining  evil  ?     Then 

wait  before  you  turn  to  God.     . 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


PROFANITY. 

Nothing  is  a  greater  sacrilege  than  to  prostitute  the  great 
name  of  God  to  the  petulance  of  an  idle  tongue. 


REASON.  487 


The  foolish  and  wicked  practice  of  profane  cursing  and 
swearing  is  a  vice  so  mean  and  low,  that  every  person  of  sense 
and  character  detests  and  despises  it. 

—  George  Washington. 


One  cause  of  atheism  is,  a  custom  of  scoffing  in  holy  matters, 
which  doth  by  little  and  little  deface  the  reverence  of  religion. 

—  Francis  Bacon. 


R. 

REASON. 

The  light  of  reason  ever  gleams  on  the  margin  of  an  unmeas- 
ured and  unmeasurable  ocean  of  mystery  ;  and  however  far  we 
push  our  discoveries,  the  line  of  light  only  moves  on,  and  has 
infinite  and  unfathomable  darkness  beyond  it. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


Polished  steel  will  not  shine  in  the  dark.  No  more  can 
reason^  however  refined  or  cultivated,  shine  efficaciously  but  as 
it  reflects  the  light  of  Divine  truth  shed  from  heaven. 

—  John  Foster. 


What  a  return  do  we  make  for  those  blessings  we  have  re- 
ceived !  How  disrespectfully  do  we  treat  the  gospel  of  Christ 
to  which  we  owe  that  clear  light  both  of  reason  and  of  nature, 
which  we  now  enjoy,  when  we  endeavor  to  set  up  reason  and 
nature  in  opposition  to  it !  Ought  the  withered  hand  which 
Christ  has  restored  and  made  whole  to  be  lifted  up  against  Him  ? 

—  Bishop  Sherlock. 


Water  cannot  rise  higher  than  its  source,  neither  can  human 
reason. 

—  Coleridge. 


488  REDEiMPTION. 


Religion  passes  out  of  the  ken  of  reason  only  where  the  eye 
of  reason  has  reached  its  own  horizon  ;  faith  is  then  but  its  con- 
tinuation, even  as  the  day  softens  away  into  the  sweet  twilight ; 
and  twilight,  hushed  and  breathless,  steals  into  the  darkness. 

—  Coleridge. 


It  cannot  discover  any  independent  truth  ;  it  has  absolutely 
no  function  until  truth,  derived  from  some  other  source,  is  given 
for  it  to  work  upon.  You  can  never  get  out  of  it  what  you  did 
not  first  put  into  it.  If  man  is  to  know  any  thing  at  all,  that 
knowledge  must  come  from  some  other  source  than  reason. 

—  Sunday-School  Times. 


Let  reason  count  the  stars,  weigh  the  mountains,  fathom  the 
depths  —  the  employment  becomes  her,  and  the  success  is  glo- 
rious. But  when  the  question  is,  "  How  shall  man  be  just  with 
God  ?"  reason  must  be  silent,  revelation  must  speak  ;  and  he 
who  will  not  hear  it  assimilates  himself  to  the  first  deist,  Cain  ; 
he  may  not  kill  a  brother,  he  certainly  destroys  himself. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Here  is  the  manliness  of  manhood,  that  a  man  has  a  reason 
for  what  he  does,  and  has  a  will  in  doing  it. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


REDEMPTION. 

O,  if  there  be  any  kind  of  life  most  sad,  and  deepest  in  the 
scale  of  pity,  it  is  the  dry,  cold  impotence  of  one,  who  has  hon- 
estly set  to  the  work  of  his  own  self-redemption. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


The  contrivance  of  our  redemption  is  the  most  glorious  dis- 
play of  Divine  love  that  ever  was  made,  or  ever  can  be  made  to 
the  children  of  men. 


REDEMPTION.  489 


Underneath  all  the  arches  of  Scripture  history,  throughout 
the  whole  grand  temple  of  the  Scriptures,  these  two  voices  ever 
echo,  man  is  ruined,  man  is  redeemed. 

—  C.  D.  Foss. 


Christ  is  redemption  only  as  He  actually  redeems  and  de- 
livers our  nature  from  sin.  If  He  is  not  the  law  and  spring  of 
a  new  spirit  of  life,  He  is  nothing.  "As  many  as  are  led  by  the 
Spirit  of  God,  they  are  the  sons  of  God,"  —  as  many,  no  more. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


By  Christ's  purchasing  redemption,  two  things  are  intended, 
His  satisfaction,  and  His  merit.  All  is  done  by  the  price  that 
Christ  lays  down,  which  does  two  things  :  it  pays  our  debt,  and 
so  it  satisfies  ;  by  its  intrmsic  value,  and  by  the  agreement  be- 
tween the  Father  and  the  Son  it  procures  our  title,  and  so  it 
merits.  The  satisfaction  of  Christ  is  to  free  us  from  misery,  and 
the  merit  of  Christ  is  to  purchase  happiness  for  us. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


Whatever  in  Christ  had  the  nature  of  satisfaction,  was  by  vir- 
tue of  His  suffering  or  humiliation  ;  whatever  had  the  nature  of 
merit,  was  by  virtue  of  His  obedience  or  righteousness. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


As  God  carries  on  the  work  of  converting  the  souls  of  fallen 
men  through  all  ages,  so  He  goes  on  to  justify  them,  to  blot  out 
all  their  sins,  and  to  accept  them  as  righteous  in  His  sight 
through  the  righteousness  of  Christ.  He  goes  on  to  adopt  and 
receive  them  from  being  the  children  of  Satan  to  be  His  own 
children,  to  carry  on  the  work  of  His  grace  which  He  has  be- 
gun in  them,  to  comfort  them  with  the  consolations  of  His 
Spirit,  and  to  bestow  upon  them,  when  their  bodies  die,  that 
eternal  glory  which  is  the  fruit  of  Christ's  purchase. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


490  REGENERATION. 


We  are  made  partakers  of  the  redemption  purchased  by 
Christ,  by  the  effectual  application  of  it  to  us  by  His  Holy 
Spirit. 


Westminster  Catechism, 


Look,  therefore,  which  way  we  will,  whether  at  the  direct 
Scriptural  statements  of  death  as  the  penalty  of  sin,  or  at  the 
agony  of  the  cross  as  a  means  of  rescue,  or  ac  the  joy  of  the 
angels  of  God  over  a  rescue  ;  we  see  from  either  that  it  must  be 
a  work  of  infinite  and  eternal  consequence  —  the  work  of  re- 
demption. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


What  a  memorable  epoch  that  will  be  when  Jesus  Christ  shall 

have  vacated  the  throne  of  mercy  !    What  an  awful  event  in  the 

history  of  our  universe  will  that  be  when  the  dispensation  that 

cost  so  much,  that  lasted   so  long,  when  that  shall  cease,  when 

that  shall  disappear  and  be  no  more  at  all  in  the  universe  of  God 

Almighty!    It  seems  to  me  the  very  thought  ought  to  start  every 

sinner  to  his  feet  in  a  moment !  Lord  Jesus,  help  !   that  we  may 

embrace  the  offered  mercy! 

—  Bishop  Daggett. 


REGENERATION. 

Regeneration  is  God's  disposing  the  heart  to  Himself  ;  con- 
version is  the  actual  turning  of  the  heart  to  God. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


I  never  wish  to  be  more  charitable  than  Christ  I  find  it 
written  :  "  Except  a  man  be  born  again,  he  cannot  see  the  king- 
dom of  God." 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


You  are  sons  because  born  again,  or  slaves  and  enemies  be- 
cause of  wicked  works. 


REGENERATION.  491 


Creed,  or  the  belief  in  a  certain  amount  of  doctrine,  has  made 
Christendom,  but  never  made  a  Christian.  "  Ye  must  be  born 
again." 


—  W.  P.  Mackay. 


Embrace    in  one   act   the  two   truths  —  thine  own  sin,   and 
God's    infinite  mercy  in  Jesus  Christ. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


While  the  agent  of  renovation  is  the  Divine  Spirit,  and  the 
condition  of  renovation  ii?  our  cleaving  to  Christ,  the  medium 
of  renovation  and  the  weapon  which  the  transforming  grace  em- 
ploys is  "  the  word  of  the  truth  of  the  gospel,"  whereby  we  are 
sanctified. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


The  regeneration  of  a  sinner  is  an  evidence  of  power  in  the 
highest  sphere  —  moral  nature  ;  with  the  highest  prerogative  — 
to  change  nature ;  and  operating  to  the  highest  result  —  not  to 
create  originally,  which  is  great  ;  but  to  create  anew,  which  is 
greater. 

—  William  Arthur. 


Regeneration  is  the  beginning  of  holiness  in  the  soul,  and  ad- 
mits of  no  progression  ;  sanctification  is  carried  on  progress- 
ively in  the  heart  of  the  renewed,  and  will  be  continued  until 
it  is  completed  in  the  concluding  moment  of  life. 

—  Charles  Backus. 


One  has  said  that  Christ  excelled  all  other  moralists  in  this, 
that  He  puts  the  padlock  not  upon  the  hand,  but  upon  the  heart. 
But  He  does  not  use  the  padlock  at  all,  He  renders  such  a  thing 
unnecessary.  He  takes  the  tiger  from  the  heart,  and  replaces 
it  with  the  lamb. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


492  REJECTION  OF  CHRIST. 

Regeneration   is,  we  know,  instantaneous ;  but  the  steps  that 

lead  to  it  are  often   very  gradual  ;  and  none  of  them,  so  far  as 

we  can  see,  can  be  spared. 

—  T.  W.  Chambers. 


Do  you  think  that  a  man  is  renewed  by  God's  Spirit,  when 
except  for  a  few  religious  phrases,  and  a  little  more  outside  re- 
spectability, he  is  just  the  old  man,  the  same  character  at  heart 

he  ever  was  ? 

—  Charles  KiNGSLEY. 


A  man  may  beat  down  the  bitter  fruit  from  an  evil  tree  until 

he  is  weary  ;  whilst  the  root  abides  in  strength  and  vigor,  the 

beating  down  the  present  fruit  will  not  hinder  it  from  brirtging 

forth  more. 

—  John  Owen. 


REJECTION  OF  CHRIST. 

How  great  is  your  sin  in  rejecting  Jesus  Christ!  You  slight 
the  glorious  Person  for  whose  coming  God  made  such  great 
preparation  in  such  a  series  of  wonderful  providences  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world,  bringing  to  pass  a  thing  before  unknown, 
the  union  of  the  Divine  nature  with  the  human  in  one  person. 
You  have  been  guilty  of  slighting  that  great  Saviour,  who,  after 
such  preparation,  actually  accomplished  the  purchase  of  redemp- 
tion, and  who,  after  He  had  spent  three  or  four  and  thirty  years 
in  poverty,  labor,  and  contempt,  in  purchasing  redemption,  at 
last  finished  the  purchase  by  closing  His  life  under  such  ex- 
treme sufferings  ;  and  so  by  His  death,  and  continuing  for  a 
time  under  the  power  of  death,  completed  the  whole.  This  is 
the  Saviour  you  reject  and  despise.  You  make  light  of  all  the 
glory  of  His  person,  and  of  all  the  love  of  God  the  Father  in 
sending  Him  into  the  world,  and  all  His  wonderful  love  appear- 
ing in  the  whole  of  His  work. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


RELIGION.  493 


The  message  of  love  can  never  come  into  a  human  soul,  and 
pass  away  from  it  unreceived,  without  leaving  that  spirit  worse, 
with  all  its  lowest  characteristics  strengthened,  and  all  its  best 
ones  depressed,  by  the  fact  of  rejection. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


RELIGION. 

The  ground  of  all  religion,  that  which  makes  it  possible,  is 
the  relation  in  which  the  human  soul  stands  to  God. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


Religion  is  the  tie  that  connects  man  with  his  Creator,  and 
holds  him  to  His  throne. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


Religion  is  faith  in  an  infinite  Creator,  who  delights  in  and 
enjoins  that  rectitude  which  conscience  commands  us  to  seek. 
This  conviction  gives  a  Divine  sanction  to  duty. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


In  whatever  light  we  view  religion  it  appears  solemn  and 
venerable.  It  is  a  temple  full  of  majesty,  to  which  the  wor- 
shiper may  approach  with  comfort,  in  the  hope  of  obtaining 
grace  and  finding  mercy  ;  but  where  they  cannot  enter  without 
being  inspired  with  awe.  If  we  may  be  permitted  to  compare 
spiritual  with  natural  things,  religion  resembles  not  those  scenes 
of  natural  beauty  where  every  object  smiles.  It  cannot  be 
likened  to  the  gay  landscape  or  the  flowery  field.  It  resem- 
bles more  the  august  and  sublime  appearances  of  Nature  — 
the  lofty  mountain,  the  expanded  ocean,  and  the  starry  firma- 
ment ;  at  the  sight  of  which  the  mind  is  at  once  overawed  and 
delighted ;  and,  from  the  union  of  grandeur  with  beauty,  de- 
rives a  pleasing  but  a  serious  devotion. 

—  Blair. 


494  RELIGION. 


Religion  is  the  answer  to  that  cry  of  Reason  which  nothing 
can  silence,  that  aspiration  of  the  soul  which  no  created  thing 
can  meet,  that  want  of  the  heart  which  all  creation  cannot  sup- 
ply. 

—  I.  T.  Hecker. 


Religion  to  be  permanently  influential  must  be  intelligent. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Religion,  in  its  purity,  is  not  so  much  a  pursuit  as  a  temper ; 
or  rather  it  is  a  temper,  leading  to  the  pursuit  of  all  that  is  high 
and  holy.  Its  foundation  is  faith  ;  its  action,  works  ;  its  tem- 
per, holiness  ;  its  aim,  obedience  to  God  in  improvement  of 
self,  and  benevolence  to  men. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


Religion  is   such  a  belief  of  the  Bible  as  maintains  a  living 

influence  on  the  heart. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Too  soon  did  the  doctors  of  the  church  forget  that  the  heart 
—  the  moral  nature  —  was  the  beginning  and  the  end,  and  that 
truth,  knowledge,  and  insight  were  comprehended  in  its  expan- 
sion. 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


By  religion   I  mean  perfected  manhood,  —  the  quickening  of 
the  soul  by  the  influence  of  the  Divine  Spirit. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Our  religious  needs  are  our  deepest  needs.  There  is  no 
peace  till  they  are  satisfied  and  contented.  The  attempt  to 
stifle  them  is  in  vain.  If  their  cry  be  drowned  by  the  noise  of 
the  world,  they  do  not  cease  to  exist.     They  must  be  answered. 

—  I.  T.  Hecker. 


RELIGION.  495 

The  true  office  of  religion  is  to  bring  out  the  whole  nature 
of  man  in  harmonious  activity. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 

The  true  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour  is  that  which 
penetrates,  and  which  receives  all  the  warmth  of  the  heart,  and 
all  the  elevation  of  the  soul,  and  all  the  energies  of  the  under- 
standing, and  all  the  strength  of  the  will. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Religion  is- not  mere  truth,  gained  by  study,  and  retained  by 
watchfulness  in  the  soul.  It  is  truth  translated  into  actions, 
embodied  in  life. 


A  religion  that  never  suffices  to  govern  a  man,  will  never 
suffice  to  save  him.  That  which  does  not  distinguish  him  from 
a  sinful  world,  will  never  distinguish  him  from  a  perishing 
world. 

—  John  Howe. 


No  man's  religion  ever  survives  his  morals. 

—  South. 


Religion  is  the  best  armor  in  the  world,  but  the  w^orst  cloak. 

—  Newton. 


Religion  is  not  a  perpetual  moping  over  good  books.  Re- 
ligion is  not  even  prayer,  praise,  holy  ordinances,  —  these  are 
necessary  to  religion  —  no  man  can  be  religious  without  them. 
But  religion  is  mainly  and  chiefly  the  glorifying  God  amid  the 
duties  and  trials  of  the  world  ;  the  guiding  of  our  course  amid 
adverse  winds  and  currents  of  temptation  by  the  sunlight  of 
duty  and  the  compass  of  Divine  truth,  the  bearing  up  manfully, 
wisely,  courageously,  for  the  honor  of  Christ,  our  great  Leader, 
in  the  conflict  of  life. 

—  John  Caird. 


496  RELIGION, 


Religion  is  no  dry  morality  ;  no  slavish,  punctilious  conform- 
ing of  actions  to  a  hard  law.  Religion  is  not  right  thinking 
alone,  nor  right  emotion  alone,  nor  right  action  alone.  Re- 
ligion is  still  less  the  semblance  of  these  in  formal  profession, 
or  simulated  feeling,  or  apparent  rectitude.  Religion  is  not 
nominal  connection  with  the  Christian  community,  nor  partici- 
pation in  its  ordinances  and  its  worship.     But  to  be  godly  is  to 

be  godlike. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Human    things    must    be    known  to  be  loved ;     but  Divine 

things  must  be  loved  to  be  known. 

—  Pascal. 


True  religion  is  not  what  men  see  and  admire  ;  it  is  what 
God  sees  and  loves  ;  the  faith  which  clings  to  Jesus  in  the 
darkest  hour  ;  the  sanctity  which  shrinks  from  the  approach  of 
evil  ;  the  humility  which  lies  low  at  the  feet  of  the  Redeemer, 
and  washes  them  with  tears  ;  the  love  which  welcomes  every 
sacrifice  ;  the  cheerful  consecration  of  all  the  powers  of  the 
soul ;  the  worship  which,  rising  above  all_  outward  forms,  as- 
cends to  God  in  the  sweetest,  dearest  communion  —  a  worship 
often  too  deep  for  utterance,  and  than  which  the  highest  heaven 

knows  nothing  more  sublime. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


I  have  now  disposed  of  all  my  property  to  my  family.  There 
is  one  thing  more  I  wish  I  could  give  them,  and  that  is  the 
Christian  religion.  If  they  had  that,  and  I  had  not  given  them 
one  shilling,  they  would  have  been  rich  ;  and  if  they  had  not 
that,  and  I  had  given  them  all  the  world,  they  would  be  poor. 

—  Patrick  Henry. 


The  call  to  religion  is  not  to  be  better  than  your  fellows,  but 
to  be  better  than  yourself. 


RELIGION.  497 


O  Heavenly  Father,  convert  my  religion  from  a  name  to  a 
principle  !  Bring  all  my  thoughts  and  movements  into  an 
habitual  reference  to  Thee! 

—  Thomas  Chalmers. 


When  we  take  our  last  remove,  I  fear  that  we  shall  find  that 
a  great  deal  which  we  call  religion,  and  which  we  were  at  the 
trouble  of  lugging  about  with  us  through  our  whole  pilgrimage, 
is  perfectly  worthless,  fit  only  to  be  burned. 

—  Wm.  Goodell. 


Is  religion  one  of  the  fine  arts,  that  it  should  consist  simply 
in  going  to  meeting  in  good  clothes  every  Sunday,  saying  grace 
at  table,  and  praying  night  and  morning?  Are  we  so  literally 
a  flock  that  we  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  be  fed  all  the  year, 
yielding  only  the  annual  fleece  which  forms  our  pastor's  salary? 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


The  body  of  all  true  religion  consists,  to  be  sure,  in  obe- 
dience to  the  will  of  the  Sovereign  of  the  world,  in  a  confidence 
in  His  declarations,  and  an  imitation  of  His  perfections. 

— Edmund  Burke. 


The  sum  and  substance  of  the  preparation  needed  for  a 
coming  eternity  is  that  you  believe  what  the  Bible  tells  you,  and 
do  what  the  Bible  bids  you. 

—  Chalmers. 


Carry  religious  principles  into  common  life,  and  common  life 
will  lose  its  transitoriness.  The  world  passes  away.  The  things 
seen  are  temporal.  Soon  business,  with  all  its  cares  and  anx- 
ieties, the  whole  "  unprofitable  stir  and  fever  of  the  world  "  will 
be  to  us  a  thing  of  the  past.  But  religion  does  something  better 
than  sigh  and  moan  over  the  perishableness  of  earthly  things. 
It  finds  in  them  the  seeds  of  immortality. 

—  John  Cairo. 

?,2 


498  RELIGION. 


How  admirable  is  that  religion  which,  while  it  seems  to  have 
in  view  only  the  felicity  of  another  world,  is  at  the  same  time 
the  highest  happiness  of  this. 

—  Montesquieu. 


Religious  faith  and  purpose  are  the  only  certain  safeguards 
against  the  growing  perils  of  life.  So  far  as  there  has  been 
among  educated  men  a  decline  of  loyalty  to  Christ  and  His  gos- 
pel, there  has  been  a  decline  in  those  qualities  which  claim  con- 
fidence and  honor,  which  insure  unblemished  reputation,  which 
minister  to  social  well-being,  and  to  the  integrity  and  purity  of 

public  life. 

—  A.  P.  Peabody. 


It  is  only  religion,  the  great  bond  of  love  and  duty  to  God, 
that  makes  any  existence  valuable  or  even  tolerable.  Without 
this,  to  live  were  only  to  graze.  Without  this,  the  beauties  of 
the  world  are  but  splendid  gewgaws,  the  stars  of  heaven  glitter- 
ing orbs  of  ice,  and,  what  is  yet  far  worse  and  colder,  the  trials 
of  existence  profitless  and  unadulterated  miseries. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Remove  from   the  history  of  the  past  all  those  actions  which 

have  either  sprung  directly  from  the  religious  nature  of  man,  or 

been  modified  by  it,  and  you  have  the  history  of  another  world 

and  of  another  race. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


It  was  religion,  which,  by  teaching  men  their  near  relation  to 
God,  awakened  in  them  the  consciousness  of  their  importance 
as  individuals.  It  was  the  struggle  for  religious  rights,  which 
opened  their  eyes  to  all  their  rights.  It  was  resistance  to  re- 
ligious usurpation,  which  led  men  to  withstand  political  oppres- 
sion.    It  was  religious  discussion,  which  roused  the  minds  of 

all  classes  to  free  and  vigorous  thought. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


RELIGION.  499 


The  men  that  history  enshrines  in  her  pages,  the  men  whose 
memories  are  embahiied  in  the  hearts  of  their  fellows  for  all 
ages,  were  men  who  placed  unfaltering  trust  in  the  loftiest  con- 
victions of  the  soul,  and  consecrated  life  and  death  to  their 
realization.  —  I.  T.  Hecker. 


It  is  the  very  nature  and  essence  of  religion  to  raise  men, 
peoples,  and  nations  above  the  common  level  of  life,  to  break 
through  its  ordinary  bounds,  and  express  itself  in  a  thousand 
ways,  in  poetry,  painting,  music,  sculpture,  and  in  every  other 
form  of  ideal  expression.  The  splendid  monuments  of  the 
genius  and  greatness  of  by-gone  ages  are  the  monuments  in- 
spired by  their  religion. 

—  I.  T.  Hecker. 


One  must  build  to  the  praise  of  a  Being  above,  to  build  the 
noblest  memorial  of  himself.  Then,  Angelo  may  verily  "  hang 
the  Pantheon  in  the  air."  Then  the  unknown  builder,  whose 
personality  disappears  in  his  work,  may  stand  an  almost  inspired 
mediator  between  the  upward-looking  thought  and  the  spheres 
overhead.  Each  line  then  leaps  with  a  swift  aspiration,  as  the 
vast  structure  rises,  in  nave  and  transept  into  pointed  arch  and 
vanishing  spire.  The  groined  roof  grows  dusky  with  majestic 
glooms  ;  while,  beneath,  the  windows  flame,  as  with  apocalyptic 
light  of  jewels.  Angelic  presences,  sculptured  upon  the  portal, 
invite  the  wayfarer,  and  wave  before  him  their  wings  of  promise. 
Within  is  a  worship  which  incense  only  clouds,  which  spoken 
sermons  only  mar.  The  building  itself  becomes  a  worship,  a 
Gloria  in  Excelsis,  articulate  in  stone  ;  the  noblest  tribute  of- 
fered on  earth,  by  any  art,  to  Him  from  whom  its  impulse  came, 
and  with  the  ineffable  majesty  of  whose  spirit  all  skies  are  filled. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


Religion   converts  despair,   which   destroys,  into  resignation, 
which  submits. 


500  RELIGION. 


What  but  the  mighty  mastership  of  rehgion  has  ever  led  a 
people  up  through  civil  wars  and  revolutions  into  a  regenerated 
order  and  liberty  ?  What  has  planted  colonies  for  a  great  his- 
tory but  religion  ?  The  most  august  and  beautiful  structures  of 
the  world  have  been  temples  of  religion,  crystallizations,  we  may 
say,  of  worship.  The  noblest  charities,  the  best  fruits  of  learning, 
the  richest  discoveries,  the  best  institutions  of  law  and  justice, 
every  greatest  thing  the  world  has  seen,  represents  more  or  less 
directly  the  fruitfulness  and  creativeness  of  religion. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


All  noblest  things  are  religious, —  not  temples  and  martyr- 
doms only,  but  the  best  books,  pictures,  poetry,  statues,-  and 
music.  —  Wm.  Mountford. 


Other  religions  have  risen  and  decayed  ;  Christ's  comes  down 
the  ages  in  the  strength  of  youth,  through  the  seas  of  popular 
commotion,  like  the  Spirit  of  God  on  the  face  of  the  waters, 
through  the  storms  of  philosophy,  like  an  apocalyptic  angel,  and 
through  all  the  wilderness  of  human  thought  and  action,  like  the 
pillar  of  fire  before  the  camp  of  the  Israelites. 

—  Edward  Thomsox. 


The  heathen  mythology  not  only  was  not  true,  but  was  not 
even  supported  as  true  ;  it  not  only  deserved  no  faith,  but  it 
demanded  none.  The  very  pretension  to  truth,  the  very  de- 
mand of  faith,  were  characteristic  distinctions  of  Christianity. 

—  Whately. 


Beware  of  a  religion  of  mere  sentiment  which  gazes  and  sighs 
and  wishes,  but  makes  no  sacrifice,  which  hides  the  cross  with 
flowers,  and  wears  it  over,  but  not  within  the  heart.  Beware  of 
a  religion  which  costs  you  nothing,  never  rises  an  hour  earlier, 
never  denies  itself  a  pleasure,  never  gives  that  which  it  will  miss, 
for  the  sake  of  Christ  and  the  soul. 


RELIGION.  501 


If  you  are  seeking  the  comforts  of  religion  rather  than  the 
glory  of  our  Lord,  you  are  on  the  wrong  track.  The  Comforter 
meets  us  unsought  in  the  path  of  duty. 


There  is  something  in  religion,  when  rightly  comprehended, 

that    is  masculine   and  grand.     It  removes  those  little  desires 

which  are  the  constant  hectic  of  a  fool. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Let  a  man  be  firmly  principled  in  his  religion,  he  may  travel 

from   the  tropics  to  the  poles,  it  will  never  catch  cold  on  the 

journey. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  way  to  judge  of  religion  is  by  doing  our  duty.  Religion 
is  rather  a  Divine  life  than  a  Divine  knowledge.  In  heaven,  in- 
deed, we  must  first  see,  and  then  love  ;  but  here,  on  earth,  we 
must  first  love,  and  love  will  open  our  eyes  as  well  as  our  hearts, 
and  we  shall  then  see  and  perceive  and  understand. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


To  judge  religion  we  must  have  it  —  not  stare  at  it  from  the 
bottom  of  a  seemingly  interminable  ladder. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


The  spirit  of  true  religion  breathes  gentleness  and  affability ; 
it  gives  a  native,  unaffected  ease  to  the  behavior ;  it  is  social, 
kind,  cheerful  ;  far  removed  from  the  cloudy  and  illiberal  dis- 
position which  clouds  the  brow,  sharpens  the  temper,  and  de- 
jects the  spirit. 

—  Blair. 


It  is  the  half-way  religion  that  undoes  the  professing  world. 
The  heart  can  never  be  at  unity  with  itself  till  it  is  wholly  cen- 
tered in  God. 


502  RELIGION. 


Religion  gives  to  virtue  the  sweetest  hopes,  to  unrepenting 
vice  just  alarms,  to  true  repentance  the  most  powerful  conso- 
lations ;  but  she  endeavors  above  all  things  to  inspire  in  men 
love,  meekness,  and  piety. 

—  Montesquieu. 


Nothing  exposes  religion  more  to  the  reproach  of  its  enemies 

than  the  worldliness  and  half-heartedness  of  the  professors  of 

It. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Men  use  religion  just  as  they  use  buoys  and  life-preservers  ; 
they  do  not  intend  to  navigate  the  vessel  with  them,  but  they 
keep  just  enough  of  them  on  hand  to  float  into  a  safe  harbor 
when  a  storm  comes  up  and  the  vessel  is  shipwrecked  ;  and  it 
is  only  then  that  they  intend  to  use  them.  I  tell  you,  you  will 
find  air-holes  in  all  such  life-preservers  as  that.  . 

—  Porter. 


There  is  a  great  deal  too  much  in  the  world,  of  the  "  heav- 
enly-mindedness  "  which  expends  itself  in  the  contemplation 
of  the  joys  of  paradise,  which  performs  no  duty  which  it  can 
shirk,  and  whose  constant  prayer  is  to  be  lifted  in  some  over- 
whelming flood  of  Divine  grace,  and  be  carried,  amidst  the  ad- 
miration of  men  and  the  jubilance  of  angels,  to  the  very  throne 
of  God. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


The  religion  of  some  people  is  constrained  ;  like  the  cold 
bath  when  it  is  used,  not  for  pleasure,  but  from  necessity,  for 
health,  into  which  one  goes  with  reluctance,  and  is  glad  when 
able  to  get  out.  But  religion  to  the  true  believer  is  like  water 
to  a  fish.  It  is  his  element.  He  lives  in  it,  and  could  not  live 
out  of  it. 

—  John  Newton. 


RELIGION.  503 


With  many  people,  religion  is  merely  a  matter  of  words.  So 
far  as  words  go  we  do  what  we  think  right.  But  the  words 
rarely  lead  to  action,  thought,  and  conduct,  or  to  purity,  good- 
ness, and  honesty.     There  is  too  much  playing  at  religion,  and 

too  little  of  enthusiastic,  hard  work. 

—  Samuel  Smiles. 


You  have  no  security  for  a  man  who  has  no  religious  princi- 
ple. 

—  Richard  Cobden. 


There  are  men  who  stalk  about  the  world  gloomy  and  stiff 
and  severe  —  self-righteous  embodiments  of  the  mischievous 
heresy  that  the  religion  of  peace  and  good-will  to  all  mankind 
—  the  religion  of  love  and  hope  and  joy,  the  religion  that 
bathes  the  universal  human  soul  in  the  light  of  paternal  love, 
and  opens  to  mankind  the  gates  of  immortality  —  is  a  religion 
of  terror  —  men  guilty  of  misrepresenting  Christ  to  the  world, 
and  doing  incalculable  damage  to  His  cause. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Men  will  wrangle  for  religion  ;  write  for  it ;  fight  for  it ;  die 
for  it  ;  any  thing  but  —  live  for  it. 

COLTON. 


Too  much  is  said  in  these  days  about  the  aesthetics  of  religion 
and  its  sensibilities.  Religion's  home  is  in  the  conscience.  Its 
watchword  is  the  word  "ought."  Its  highest  joy  is  in  doing 
God's  will. 

—  T.    L.   CUYLER. 


They  who  seek  religion  for  culture's  sake  are  aesthetic,  not  re- 
ligious, and  will  never  gain  that  grace  which  religion  adds  to 
culture,  because  they  never  can  have  the  religion. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


504  RELIGION. 


The  belief  in  a  Divine  education,  open  to  each  man  and  to 
all  men,  takes  up  into  itself  all  that  is  true  in  the  end  proposed 
by  culture,  supplements,  and  perfects  it. 

—  J-  C.  Shairp, 


To  rely  on  intellectual  methods  for  the  direct  advance  of  de- 
vout thoughts  is  to  mistake  philosophy  for  religion. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Religion  is  the  only  metaphysics  that  the  multitude  can  un- 
derstand and  adopt. 

—  Joseph  Joubert. 


Man  without  religion  is  the  creature  of  circumstances.  Re- 
ligion is  above  all  circumstances,  and  will  lift  him  up  above 
them. 

—  Guesses  at  Truth. 


Educate  men  without  religion,  and  you  make  them  but  clever 
devils. 

—  Duke  of  Wellington. 


It  seems  to  me  a  great  truth,  that  human  things  cannot  stand 
on  selfishness,  mechanical  utilities,  economies,  and  law  courts; 
that  if  there  be  not  a  religious  element  in  the  relations  of  men, 
such  relations  are  miserable,  and  doomed  to  ruin. 

—  Carlvle. 


Who  ever  heard  of  a  devout  deist .-"  Who  ever  heard  of  one 
who  was  willing  to  spend  his  life  in  missionary  labor  for  the  good 
of  others .'  It  is  not  according  to  the  constitution  of  the  mind 
that  such  a  system  should  awaken  the  affections.  And  what  is 
true  of  this  system  is  true  of  every  false  system.  All  such  sys- 
tems leave   the  heart   cold,   and,  accordingly,  exert   very  little 

genuine, transforming  power  over  the  life. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


REPENTANCE.  505 


Religion  may  enter  a  pothouse  as  a  minister  of  good,  but  it 
may  not  lay  aside  its  dignity  to  argue  its  rights  and  claims  there. 
The  moment  that  it  does  this  it  is  shorn  of  its  power. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 

Who  does  not  know  out  of  his  own  heart,  that  he  never  was 
reasoned  into  holy  wonder,  love,  or  reverence  ?  and  who  can  fail 
to  observe  that  there  is  no  fixed  proportion  between  force  of  un- 
derstanding and  clearness  or  depth  of  religion  ? 

— -James  Martineau. 


You  have  respect  for  religion  !  How  vastly  condescending  ! 
How  deeply  humble  !  The  creature  has  a  respect  for  the  service 
of  the  Creator !  A  grasshopper  deigns  to  acknowledge  that  it 
has  a  respect  for  the  King  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords  !  Verily 
a  subject  of  congratulation  for  the  universe  !  A  worm  crawling 
in  the  dust  confesses  to  its  fellow  worm  that  it  has  some  respect 
for  the  government  of  the  high  and  mighty  One  that  inhabiteth 
eternity. 

—  Dr.  Muhlenberg. 


REPENTANCE. 

True  repentance  consists  in   the  heart  being  broken   for  sin 
and  broken  from  sin. 

—  Thornton. 


Of  all  acts  is  not,  for  a  man,  repentance  the  most  divine  ?    The 
greatest  of  faults  is  to  be  conscious  of  none. 

—  Carlyle. 


While  repentance  is  indispensable  to  eternal  life,  we  are  not 
to  regard  it  in  the  light  of  a  price  paid  for  its  possession.  It  is 
not  an  expiatory  grace,  or  a  compensation  for  moral  indebted- 
ness. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


506  REPENTANCE. 


The  Scriptural  doctrine  in  regard  to  repentance  is  not,  that  a 
man  must  repent  in  order  to  his  being  qualified  to  go  to  Christ ; 
it  is  rather,  that  he  must  go  to  Christ  in  order  to  his  being  able 
to  repent.  From  Him  comes  the  grace  of  contrition  as  well  as 
the  cleansing  of  expiation. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


True  repentance  has  as  its  constituent  elements  not  only  grief 
and  hatred  of  sin,  but  also  an  apprehension  of  the  mercy  of  God 
in  Christ.  It  hates  the  sin,  and  not  simply  the  penalty  ;  and  it 
hates  the  sin  most  of   all  because  it  has  discovered  God's  love. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Not  all  the  drops  the  human  eye  can  shed  will  ever  quench 
the  fires  or  blot  out  the  guilt  of  sin.  Do  not,  I  pray  you,  be  de- 
ceived on  this  point ;  do  not  permit  yourselves  to  harbor  the 
delusion  that  the  rain-showers  from  your  beclouded  eyes  can 
ever  fertilize  the  barren  soul,  and  cause  it  to  blossom  as  the  rose. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


To  grieve  over  sin  is  one  thing,  to  repent  is  another. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


The  law  stops  every  man's  mouth.  God  will  have  a  man 
humble  himself  down  on  his  face  before  Him,  with  not  a  word 
to  say  for  himself.  Then  God  will  speak  to  him,  when  he  owns 
that  he  is  a  sinner,  and  gets  rid  of  all  his  own  righteousness. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


It  is  one  thing  to  mourn  for  sin  because  it  exposes  us  to  hell, 
and  another  to  mourn  for  it  because  it  is  an  infinite  evil.  It  is 
one  thing  to  mourn  for  it  because  it  is  injurious  to  ourselves  ; 
another,  to  mourn  for  it  because  it  is  offensive  to  God,  It  is 
one  thing  to  be  terrified  ;  another,  to  be  humbled. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


REPENTANCE.  507 


No  man  ever  truly  repented,  and  turned  away  from  all  his 
sins,  until  by  faith  he  accepted  the  atoning  sacrifice  of  Jesus 
Christ  upon  the  cross. 

—  Henry  Darling. 


Repentance   is  getting  out  of  one  train  and  getting  into   the 

other.     You  are  in  the  wrong  train  ;  you  are  in  the  broad  path 

that  takes  you  down  to  the  pit  of  hell.     Get  out  of  it  to-day. 

Right-about-face. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Repentance  can  never  become  a  substitute  for  obedience, 
neither  can  it,  of  itself  alone,  constitute  a  just  ground  for 
pardon. 


Repentance  does  not  consist  in  one  single  act  of  sorrow, 
though  that,  being  the  first  and  leading  act,  gives  denomination 
to  the  whole ;  but  in  doing  works  meet  for  repentance,  in  a  sin- 
cere obedience  to  the  law  of  Christ  for  the  remainder  of  our 
lives. 

—  Locke. 


It  will  require  more  than  a  few  hours  of  fasting  and  prayer  to 
cast  out  such  dejnons  as  selfishness,  worldliness,  and  unbelief. 
Repentance,  to  be  of  any  avail,  must  work  a  change  of  heart  and 
of  conduct. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


The  true  penitent  sees  that  he  has  broken  God's  holy  law,  and 
resisted  the  claims  of  his  rightful  Sovereign.  The  thought  that 
most  deeply  affects  him  is,  that  he  has  sinned  against  God.  In 
comparison  with  this,  his  other  crimes  vanish  to  nothing.  The 
language  of  his  heart  is,  "  Against  Thee,  Thee  only  have  I 
sinned." 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


508  "REPENTANCE. 


A  heart  renewed  —  a  loving  heart  —  a  penitent  and  humble 
heart  —  a  heart  broken  and  contrite,  purified  by  love  —  that  and 
only  that  is  the  rest  of  men.  Spotlessness  may  do  for  angels, 
repentance  unto  life  is  the  highest  that  belongs  to  man. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


My  Saviour,  mid  life's  varying  scene 

Be  Thou  my  stay  ; 
Guide  me,  through  each  perplexing  path, 

To  perfect  day. 
In  weakness  and  in  sin  I  stand ; 
Still  faith  can  clasp  Thy  mighty  hand, 
And  follow  at  Thy  dear  command. 

My  Saviour,  I  have  nought  to  bring 

Worthy  of  Thee  ; 
A  broken  heart  Thou  wilt  not  spurn  ; 

Accept  of  me. 
I  need  Thy  righteousness  Divine, 
I  plead  Thy  promises  as  mine, 
I  perish  if  I  am  not  Thine. 

—  Elizabeth  A.  E.  Godwin. 


Repentance  is  true  and  genuine,  if  we  are  grieved  for  sin  as  it 
is  offensive  to  God,  if  we  are  forsaking  and  turning  from  it  both 
in  heart  and  life,  and,  particularly,  if  we  are  deeply  affected  with 
the  sin  of  unbelief. 

—  Fisher's  Catechisini. 


Place  not  thy  amendment  only  in  increasing  thy  devotion, 
but  in  bettering  thy  life.  This  is  the  damning  hypocrisy  of 
this  age ;  that  it  slights  all  good  morality,  and  spends  its  zeal 
in  matters  of  ceremony,  and  a  form  of  godliness  without  the 
power  of  it. 

—  Fuller. 


REPENTANCE.  509 


Holy  practice  is  the  most  decisive  evidence  of  the  reaUty  of 
our  repentance.     "Bring  forth  fruits  meet  for  repentance." 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


True  repentance  is  to  cease  from  sin. 

—  St.  Ambrose. 


'Tis  to  bewail  the  sins  thou  didst  commit ; 
And  not  commit  those  sins  thou  hast  bewailed. 
He  that  bewails,  and  not  forsakes  them  too, 
Confesses  rather  what  he  means  to  do. 

—  Francis  Quarles. 


Repentance  unto  life  is  a  saving  grace,  whereby  a  sinner,  out 

of  a  true  sense  of  his  sin,  and   apprehension  of  the  mercy  of 

God  in  Christ,  doth,  with  grief  and  hatred  of  his  sin,  turn  from 

it   unto  God,  with  full  purpose  of,  and  endeavor   after,   new 

obedience. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


We  believe  that  repentance  and  faith  are  sacred  duties,  and 
also  inseparable  graces,  wrought  in  our  souls  by  the  regenera- 
ting Spirit  of  God,  whereby  being  deeply  convinced  of  our  guilt, 
danger,  and  helplessness,  and  ofthe  way  of  salvation  by  Christ, 
we  turn  to  God  with  unfeigned  contrition,  confession,  and  sup- 
plication for  mercy  ;  at  the  same  time  heartily  receiving  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  our  Prophet,  Priest,  and  King,  and  rely- 
ing on  Him  alone  as  the  only  and  all-sufhcient  Saviour. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


God  has  promised  to  forgive  the  penitent.  He  has  pledged 
His  word  that  the  act  of  forgiveness  on  His  part  shall  follow 
the  exercise  of  repentance  on  yours.  Returning  prodigal,  par- 
doning mercy  is  thine.  It  is  as  sure  as  the  sincerity  of  thy 
repentance. 


510  REPENTANCE. 


Come  back  then,  O,  thou  prodigal,  to  thy  Father.  Quit  thy 
sad  folly  and  emptiness,  thy  reproaches  of  soul,  thy  diseased 
longings,  and  thy  restless  sighs.  Return  again  to  thy  God,  and 
give  thyself  to  Him  in  a  final  and  last  sacrifice.  Conquer 
again,  as  Christ  will  help  you,  the  original  love,  in  that  to  abide 
and  rest. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Perhaps  yours  is  a  very  remorseful  past  —  a  foolish,  frivolous, 
disgraceful,  frittered  past.  Well,  Christ  says,  "  My  servant, 
be  sad,"  but  no  languor;  there  is  work  to  be  doije  forme  yet  — 
rise  up,  be  going  !  Oh,  my  brethren,  Christ  takes  your 
wretched  remnants  of  life  —  the  feeble  pulses  of  a  heart  which 
has  spent  its  best  hours  not  for  Him,  but  for  self  and  for  enjoy- 
ment, and  in  His  strange  love  He  condescends  to  accept  them. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


With  the  blood  of  Christ  to  wash  away  the  darkest  guilt,  and 
the  Spirit  of  God  to  sanctify  the  vilest,  and  strengthen  the  weak- 
est nature,  I  despair  of  none.  Too  late  !  It  is  never  too  late. 
Even  old  age,  tottering  to  the  grave  beneath  the  weight  of 
seventy  years  and  a  great  load  of  guilt,  may  retrace  its  steps 
and  begin  life  anew.  Hope  falls  like  a  sunbeam  on  the  hoary 
head.  I  have  seen  the  morning  rise  cold  and  gloomy,  and  the 
sky  grow  thicker,  and  the  rain  fall  faster  as  the  hours  wore  on; 
yet,  ere  he  set  in  night,  the  sun,  bursting  through  heavy  clouds, 
has  broken  out  to  illumine  the  landscape  and  shed  a  flood  of 
glory  on  the  dying  day, 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


Nor  alms,  nor  deeds,  that  I  have  done, 

Can  for  a  single  sin  atone  ; 
To  Calvary  alone  I  flee  ; 

O  God  !  be  merciful  to  me. 

—  C.  Elven. 


REPUTATION -RESIGNATION.  511 

There  is  one   case  of  death-bed   repentance  recorded  —  the 

penitent  thief  —  that   no  one    should  despair  ;  and   only  one, 

that  no  one  should  presume. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


REPUTATION. 
The  two  most  precious  things  this  side  the  grave  are  our 
reputation  and  our  life. 

C.   C.   COLTON. 


It  is  a  maxim  with  me  that  no  man   was   ever  written  out  of 

reputation  but  by  himself. 

—  Richard  Bentley. 


"  Thou  shalt  not  get  found  out  "  is  not  one  of  God's  com- 
mandments, and  no  man  can  be  saved  by  trying  to  keep  it. 

—  Leonard  Bacon. 


RESIGNATION. 

Thy  way,  not  mine,  O  Lord, 

However  dark  it  be  ! 
Lead  me  by  Thine  own  hand  ; 

Choose  out  the  path  for  me. 

—  Horatius  Bonar. 


What  is  resignation  ?     It  is  putting  God  between  one's  self 

and  one's  grief. 

—  Madame  Swetchine. 


Depend  upon  it,  in  the  midst  of  all  the  science  about  the 
world  and  its  way  and  all  the  ignorance  of  God  and  His  great- 
ness, the  man  or  woman  who  can  say,  "  Thy  will  be  done,"  with 
the  true  heart  of  giving  up,  is  nearer  the  secret  of  things  than 
the  geologist  and  theologian. 


512  RESIGNATION. 


Teach  us  to  submit  ourselves  to  Thy  chastenings,  believing 
Thy  love  in  them  all.  Thou  hast  given  us  Christ,  and  in  Him 
eternal  life.  Oh,  how  can  we  think  Thou  wouldst  withhold 
from  us  any  thing  else  if  it  were  good  for  us  !  Lord,  let  us  not 
choose  for  ourselves.  Choose  Thou  for  us  in  Thy  wisdom  and 
love,  and  let  our  hearts  approve  Thy  choice.  Be  Thou  our  por- 
tion, our  light,  and  our  joy  in  Christ  Jesus.  Help  us  ever 
watchfully  to  cherish  a  meek  and  quiet  spirit,  ever  looking  unto 
Him  who  was   meek  and  lowly  of  heart,  that   we  may  find  rest 

unto  our  souls. 

'  —  Hall's  Family  Prayers. 


0  Lord,  my  God,  do  Thou  Thy  holy  will, 

I  will  lie  still. 

1  will  not  stir,  lest  I  forsake  Thine  arm. 

And  break  the  charm 
Which  lulls  me,  clinging  to  my  Father's  breast. 
To  perfect  rest. 


Give,  O  Lord,  what   Thou  commandest,  and  then  command 

what  Thou  wilt. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


We  are  content  to  take  what  Thou  shalt  give. 
To  work  or  suffer  as  Thy  choice  shall  be ; 

Forsaking  what  Thy  wisdom  bids  us  leave. 

Glad  in  the  thought  that  Ave  are  pleasing  Thee. 

—  Eva  Travers. 


Resignation, —  not  to  a  whirlwind  of  inexorable  forces,  not  to 
powers  that  cannot  see  or  hear  or  feel,  but  to  One  who  lives 
forever,  and  who  loves  us  well,  and  who  has  given  us  all  that  we 
have,  ay,  life  itself,  that  we  may  at  His  bidding  freely  give  it 
back  to  Him. 

H.  P.   LiDDON. 


RESIGNATION.  513 


I  pray  God  that  I  may  never  find  my  will  again.     Oh,  that 

Christ  would  subject  my  will  to  His,  and  trample  it  under  His 

feet. 

—  Rutherford. 


"A  little  way  !"  —  this  sentence  I  repeat. 
Hoping  and  longing  to  extract  some  sweet 
To  mingle  with  the  bitter  ;  from  Thy  hand 
I  take  the  cup  I  cannot  understand, 
And  in  my  weakness  give  myself  to  Thee. 


Strike  !    Thou  the  Master,  we  Thy  keys, 
The  anthem  of  the  destinies ! 
The  minor  of  Thy  loftier  strain. 
Our  hearts  shall  breathe  the  old  refrain  — 
"  Thy  will  be  done  !" 

—  John  G.  Whittier. 


Jesus  knows  that  we  had  rather  labor  than  suffer  ;  and  that 
we  would  rather  labor  and  suffer,  too,  than  be  laid  aside.  No 
man  is  fit  to  rise  up  and  labor,  until  he  is  made  willing  to  lie 
still  and  suffer  as  long  as  his  Master  pleases. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


I  take  this  pain,  Lord  Jesus, 

From  Thine  own  hand  ; 
The  strength  to  bear  it  bravely 

Thou  wilt  command. 
I  am  too  weak  for  effort, 

So  let  me  rest, 
In  hush  of  sweet  submission 

On  Thine  own  breast. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


It  is  resignation  and  contentment  that  are  best  calculated  to 
lead  us  safely  through  life.  '  -i" 


514  REST. 


And  I  said  in  underbreath  — 

All  our  life  is  mixed  with  death,  — 

And  who  knoweth  which  is  best  ? 
And  I  smiled  to  think  God's  greatness 
Flowed  around  our  ijicompleteness,  — 

Round  our  restlessness,  His  rest. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


I  cannot  speak 
In  happy  tones ;  the  tear  drops  on  my  cheek 

Show  I  am  sad  ; 

But  I  can  speak 
Of  grace  to  suffer  with  submission  meek, 

Until  made  glad. 

I  cannot  feel 
That  all  is  well,  when  dark'ning  clouds  conceal 

The  shining  sun ; 

But  then  I  know 
God  lives  and  loves  ;  and  say,  since  it  is  so, 

"  Thy  will  be  done.'" 

—  F.  G.  Browning. 


Wait,  then,  my  soul !  submissive  wait. 
Prostrate  before  His  awful  seat ; 
And  'mid  the  terrors  of  His  rod, 
Trust  in  a  wise  and  gracious  God  ! 

—  Beddome. 


REST. 

When  shall  I  be  at  rest  ?     My  eyes  grow  dim 

With  straining  through  the  gloom ;  I  scarce  can  see 
The  way-marks  that  my  Saviour  left  for  me. 

Would  it  were  morning  and  the  night  were  gone. 


REST.  515 

If  thou  seek  rest  in  this  life,  how  wilt  thou  then  attain  to  the 
everlasting  rest  ?  Dispose  not  thyself  for  much  rest,  but  for 
great  patience.  Seek  true  peace  —  not  in  earth,  but  in  heaven; 
not  in  men,  nor  in  any  other  creature,  but  in  God  alone. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


Rest  is  not  quitting 
This  busy  career ; 

Rest  is  the  fitting 
Of  self  to  its  sphere. 


Goethe. 


It  is  not  the  placidity  of  stupid  ease  that  we   should  covet, 

but  the  repose  that  is  requisite  for  the   renewal  of  exhausted 

strength,  the  serenity  that  succeeds  the  storm,  and  the  salubrity 

that  repays  its  ravages. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


Thou   hast  made  us  for  Thyself,  and  the  heart  never  resteth 

till  it  findeth  rest  in  Thee. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Oh,  give  Thine  own  sweet  rest  to  me. 
That  I  may  speak  with  soothing  power 

A  word  in  season,  as  from  Thee, 
To  weary  ones  in  needful  hour. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


Rest  in  the  Lord.  Let  your  intellect,  your  judgment,  your 
reason,  rest  in  God  ;  in  God  personal,  and  possessed  of  every 
perfection — almighty  and  all-knowing,  kind,  righteous,  and 
holy  ;  that  is,  on  a  God  truly  Divine.  Rest  in  the  Lord  as  He 
reveals  Himself  in  the  gospel,  merciful  and  gracious.  Faith  in 
God  is  good,  but  faith  in  Him  as  our  own  God  is  better. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


516  REST. 

It  is  not  in  understanding  a  set  of  doctrines  ;  not  in  outward 
comprehension  of  the  "  scheme  of  salvation,"  that  rest  and  peace 
are  to  be  found,  but  in  taking  up,  in  all  lowliness  and  meek- 
ness, the  yoke  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


You  are  made  to  find  your  rest  only  in  God.  As  the  eye 
craves  light,  and  the  ear  sound,  your  higher  nature  sighs  for 
God.  Your  desires,  vainly  seeking  rest  apart  from  Him,  are 
trailing  flowers  climbing  up  the  reeds  and  stalks  only  to  bend 
them  down  to  the  earth,  instead  of  grasping  a  high  and  strong 
support  that  would  lift  them  up  and  let  them  hang  out  their 
bells  in  the  sun.  God  alone  can  satisfy  the  soul.  It  needs  His 
infinite  love  and  unclouded  light  to  meet  its  longing. 

—  J.  C.  Geikie. 


The  Princess  Elizabeth,  of  England,  was  found  dead  with  her 
head  resting  on  her  Bible,  open  at  these  words,  "  Come  unto  me, 
all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  give  you  rest." 
So  may  we  all  fall  asleep  at  last  when  the  day's  work  for  Jesus 
is  over,  and  wake  up  in  heaven  to  find  ourselves  in  the  delicious 
rest  that  remaineth  for  the  people  of  God. 

T.   L,   CUYLER, 


For  me,  my  heart,  that  erst  did  go 

Most  like  a  tired  child  at  a  show, 

That  sees  through  tears  the  mummers  leap. 

Would  now  its  wearied  vision  close, 

Would  childlike  on  His  love  repose, 

Who  giveth  His  Beloved,  sleep. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


Go   where   ye   will,  your  soul  shall  not  sleep  sound  but  in 
Christ's  bosom. 

—  Rutherford. 


REST.  517 

There  is   rest  in  this  world  nowhere  except  in  Christ,  the 

manifested  love  of  God.     Trust  in  excellence,  and  the  better 

you  become,  the  keener  is  the  feeling  of  deficiency.     Wrap  up 

all  in  doubt,  and  there  is  a  stern  voice  that  will  thunder  at  last 

out  of  the  wilderness  upon  your  dream. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


How  quiet  such  a  life  is  !  how  fruitful !  fruitful  because  it  is 
so  quiet  ;  it  works  not,  but  lives  and  grows.  The  uneasy  effort 
has  passed  out  of  it  ;  unresting  because  it  rests  always,  it  has 
done  with  task-work  and  anxiety  ;  it  serves,  yet  is  not  cumbered 
with  much  serving  ;  it  has  ceased  from  that  sad  complaint, — 
"Thou  hast  left  me  to  serve  alone." 


Sit  thou  at  the  feet  of  Christ,  and  within  the  influence  of  His 

all-composing  calmness  thine  all-disturbing    activity  shall  be 

gently  soothed  into  quietness  and  peace  ;  there  thy  weary  soul 

shall  find  rest  and  bliss. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


After  the  burden  and  heat  of  the  day, 

The  starry  calm  of  night  ; 
After  the  rough  and  toilsome  way, 

A  sleep  in  the  robe  of  white. 

Oh,  sweet  is  the  slumber  wherewith  the  King 

Hath  caused  the  weary  to  rest  ! 
For,  sleeping,  they  hear  the  angels  sing. 

They  lean  on  the  Master's  breast. 


Tarry  with  me,  O  my  Saviour  ; 

Lay  my  head  upon  Thy  breast 
Till  the  morning  ;  then  awake  me  — 

Morning  of  eternal  rest. 

—  J.  K.  Clark. 


518  RESURRECTION. 


Lord  Jesus,  I  am  weary  in  Thy  work,  but  not  of  it.  If  I  have 
not  yet  finished  my  course,  let  me  go  and  speak  for  Thee  once 
more  in  the  field,  seal  Thy  truth,  and  come  home  to  die. 

—  Whitfield. 


Rest,  weary  heart. 
From  all  Thy  silent  griefs  and  secret  pain. 
Thy  profitless  regrets,  and  longings  vain  ; 
Wisdom  and  love  have  ordered  all  the  past, 
All  shall  be  blessedness  and  joy  at  last  ; 
Cast  off  the  cares  that  have  so  long  oppressed ; 

Rest,  sweetly  rest  ! 

—  Jane  Borthwick. 


And  He,  at  last, 

After  the  weary  strife  — 
After  the  restless  fever  we  call  life  — 
After  the  dreariness,  the  aching  pain, 
The  wayward  struggles  which  have  proved  in  vain, 

After  our  toils  are  past 

Will  give  us  rest  at  last. 


RESURRECTION. 
Our  Lord  has  written  the  promise  of  the  resurrection,  not  in 
books  alone,  but  in  every  leaf  in  spring-time. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


As  from  the  short  and  dreamless  slumber  you  open  your  eyes 
on  the  great  sight  —  as  with  mingled  joy  and  awe  you  find  your- 
self caught  up  to  meet  Him  in  the  air,  your  whole  nature  spring- 
ing up  into  sudden  grandeur  and  a  strange  unearthliness,  I  can- 
not tell  what  like  He  then  shall  be,  nor  can  I  tell  what  like  you 
then  shall  be,  for,  seeing  Him  as  He  is,  you  shall  not  be  so  like 
your  present  self  as  you  shall  be  like  Him. 


RESURRECTION.  519 


The  resurrection  state  is  the  ciUmination  of  glorified  human- 
ity ;  is  the  change  of  the  earthly  for  the  heavenly ;  is  the  put- 
ting off  of  flesh  and  blood,  and  the  putting  on  of  the  spiritual 
body.  The  body  of  the  resurrection  is  the  body  with  which  the 
spirit  is  clothed  for  its  celestial  life. 

—  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster. 


I  shall  see  Him  with  these  eyes, 

Him  whom  I  shall  surely  know ; 
Not  another  shall  I  rise. 

With  His  love  this  heart  shall  glow; 
Only  there  shall  disappear 

Weakness  in  and  round  me  here. 

—  Louisa  Henrietta. 


And  shall  they  rise,  all  these  ?  Will  there  be  a  trumpet  blast 
so  shrill  that  none  of  them  may  refuse  to  hear  it,  and  the  soul, 
re-entering  its  shrine  of  eminent  or  common  clay,  pass  upward 
to  the  judgment  ?  "  Many  and  mighty,  but  all  hushed,"  shall 
they  submit  with  us  to  the  judgment  of  the  last  assize  1  And  in 
that  world  is  it  true  that  gold  is  not  the  currency,  and  that  rank 
is  not  hereditary,  and  that  there  is  only  one  name  that  is  hon- 
ored ?  Then,  if  this  is  the  end  of  all  men,  let  the  living  lay  it  to 
heart.  Solemn  and  thoughtful,  let  us  search  for  an  assured 
refuge  ;  childlike  and  earnest,  let  us  confide  in  the  one  accepted 
Name  ;  let  us  realize  the  tender  and  infinite  nearness  of  God 
our  Father,  through  Jesus  our  Surety  and  our  Friend. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshon. 


The  resurrection  morning  is  a  true  sun-rising,  the  inbursting 
of  a  cloudless  sky  on  all  the  righteous  dead.  They  wake  trans- 
figured, at  their  Maker's  call,  with  the  fashion  of  their  counte- 
nance altered  and  shining  like  His  own. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


520  REVENGE. 


O,  on  that  glorious  day,  when  all  the  hosts  of  God  shall  have 

been  gathered  from  Europe  and  Asia,  from  Africa  and  America 

—  when  the  long-buried  armies  of  the  dead  shall  come  forth, 

spiritual,  incorruptible,  glorious,   immortal  —  when  the  sons  of 

God  who  have  kept  their  first  estate,  shall  sing  "  unto  Him  that 

loved  us,"  and  the  redeemed  from  all  parts  of  the  earth,  and 

from  all  the  generations,  shall  respond  in  a  song  sweeter  than 

the  songs  of  the  morning-stars  when  all  the  sons  of  God  shoiited 

for  joy, —  may  you  and  I  be  there  to  join  that  everlasting  song, 

and  realize  that  bliss  unspeakable  which  is  the  enduring  portion 

of  the  Lord's  redeemed. 

—  John  J.  Murray. 


How  divinely  full  of  glory  and  pleasure  shall  that  hour  be 
when  all  the  millions  of  mankind  that  have  been  redeemed  by 
the  blood  of  the  Lamb  of  God  shall  meet  together  and  stand 
around  Him,  with  every  tongue  and  every  heart  full  of  joy  and 
praise  !  How  astonishing  will  be  the  glory  and  the  joy  of  that 
day  when  all  the  saints  shall  join  together  in  one  common  song 
of  gratitude  and  love,  and  of  everlasting  thankfulness  to  this 
Redeemer  !  With  what  unknown  delight,  and  inexpressible 
satisfaction,  shall  all  that  are  saved  from  the  ruins  of  sin  and 
hell  address  the  Lamb  that  was  slain,  and  rejoice  in  His  pres- 
ence ! 

—  Isaac  Watts. 


REVENGE. 

Do  you  who  are  a  Christian  desire  to  be  revenged  and  vindi- 
cated, and  the  death  of  Jesus  Christ  has  not  yet  been  revenged, 
nor  His  innocence  vindicated  ? 

—  St.  Augustine. 


Cheerful    looks,  kind  words,  and  a  speedy  pardon    are  the 
best  revenge  we  can  inflict  on  the  ungenerous  and  unjust. 


REVIVAL— RICHES.  521 

REVIVAL. 
A  genuine  revival  means  a  trimming  of  personal  lamps. 

T.   L.  CUYLER. 

The  whole  of  the  Saviour's  ministerial  life,  at  least  the  part 
of  it  that  stands  on  record,  was  passed  in  what  we  may  call 
substantially  a  revival  work. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


RICHES. 
Seek  not  proud  riches,  but  such  as  thou  mayest  get  justly, 
use  soberly,  distribute  cheerfully,  and  leave  contentedly. 

—  Lord  Bacon. 


There  is  a  burden  of  care  in  getting  riches,  fear  in  keeping 
them,  temptation  in  using  them,  sorrow  in  losing  them,  and  a 
burden  of  account  at  last  to  be  given  up  concerning  them. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


Get  rich,  if  you  will  —  you  take  great  risks.  But  Christianity 
does  not  say  to  any  man,  "  You  must  be  worth  only  so  much, 
extend  your  business  only  so  far."  It  says,  "  Use  your  riches 
for  the  glory  of  God."  If  they  once  usurp  His  place,  woe  to 
you  ! 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


If  by  the  consecration  of  my  earthly  possessions  to  some  ex- 
tent, I  can  make  the  Christian  character  practically  more  lovely, 
and  illustrate,  in  my  own  case,  that  the  highest  enjoyments  here 
are  promoted  by  the  free  use  of  the  good  things  intrusted  to 
us,  what  so  good  use  can  I  make  of  them  ? 

—  Amos  Lawrence. 


532  RICHES. 

Nature  does  not  conquer  the  world  to  God.  It  never  has. 
It  never  will.  In  America,  with  its  vast  abounding  wealth,  its 
grand  expanse  of  prairie,  its  reach  of  river,  and  its  exuberant 
productiveness,  there  is  danger  that  our  riches  will  draw  us 
away  from  God,  and  fasten  us  to  earth  ;  that  they  will  make  us 
not  only  rich,  but  mean;  not  only  wealthy,  but  wicked.  The 
grand  corrective  is  the  cross  of  Christ,  seen  in  the  sanctuary 
where  the  life  and  light  of  God  are  exhibited,  and  where  the 
reverberation  of  the  echoes  from  the  great  white  throne  are 
heard. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


If  you  will  be  rich,  you  must  be  content  to  pay  the  price, of 
falling  into  temptation  and  a  snare  and  many  foolish  and  hurt- 
ful lusts,  which  drown  men  in  perdition  ;  and  if  that  price  be 
too  high  to  pay,  then  you  must  be  content  with  the  quiet  val- 
leys of  existence,  where  alone  it  is  well  with  us  ;  kept  out  of 
the  inheritance,  but  having  instead  God  for  your  portion  — 
your  all-sufhcient  and  everlasting  portion  —  peace  and  quiet- 
ness and  rest  in  Christ. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


But  Christian  faith  knows  that  wealth  means  responsibility, 
and  that  responsibility  may  come  to  mean  only  heavy  arrears 
of  sin. 

H.   P.   LiDDON. 

Worldly  wealth  is  the  devil's  bait ;  and  those  whose  minds 
feed  upon  riches  recede,  in  general,  from  real  happiness,  in  pro- 
portion as  their  stores  increase. 

—  Burton. 


O,  my  God  !  withhold  from  me  the  wealth  to  which  tears 

and  sighs  and  curses  cleave.     Better  none  at  all  than  wealth 

like  that. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


RIGHTS.  523 

Riches  got  by  deceit,  cheat  no  man  so  much  as  the  getter. 
Riches  bought  with  guile,  God  will  pay  for  with  vengeance. 
Riches  got  by  fraud,  are  dug  out  of  one's  own  heart,  and  de- 
stroy the  mine.  Unjust  riches  curse  the  owner  in  getting,  in 
keeping,  in  transmitting. 


How  many  threadbare  souls  are  to  be  found  under  silken 

cloaks  and  gowns ! 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Riches  are  the  pettiest  and  least  worthy  gifts  which  God  can 
give  a  man.  What  are  they  to  God's  word  ?  Yea,  to  bodily 
gifts,  such  as  beauty  and  health,  or  to  the  gifts  of  the  mind,  such 
as  understanding,  skill,  wisdom  ?  Yet  men  toil  for  them  day 
and  night,  and  take  no  rest.  Therefore  our  Lord  God  com- 
monly gives  riches  to  foolish  people  to  whom  He  gives  nothing 

else. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


The  rich  are  like  beasts  of  burden,  carrying  treasure  all  day, 

and  at  the  night  of  death  unladen  ;  they  carry  to   their  grave 

only  the  bruises  and  marks  of  their  toil. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


It  is  not  the  fact  that  a  man  has  riches  which  keeps  him  from 
the  kingdom  of  heaven,  but  the  fact  that  riches  have  him. 

—  J.  Caird. 


RIGHTS. 
Almost  two  thousand  years  ago  there  was  One  here  on  this 
earth  who  lived  the  grandest  life  that  ever  has  been  lived  yet,  a 
life  that  every  thinking  man,  with  deeper  or  shallower  meaning 
has  agreed  to  call  Divine.  I  read  little  respecting  His  rights  or 
of  His  claims  of  rights  ;  but  I  have  read  a  great  deal  respecting 
His  duties.     Every  act  He  did  He  called  a  duty. 


534  SABBATH. 


Rights  are  grand  things,  divine  things,  in  this  world  of  God  ; 
but  the  way  in  which  we  expound  those  rights,  alas  !  seems  to 
me  to  be  the  very  incarnation  of  selfishness.  I  see  nothing  very 
noble  in  a  man  who  is  forever  going  about  calling  for  his  own 
rights.  Alas  !  alas  !  for  the  man  who  feels  nothing  more  grand 
in  this  wondrous,  divine  world  than  his  own  rights  ! 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Away  with  private  wrongs  !   We'll  not  go  forth 
To  fight  for  these  —  but  for  the  rights  of  men. 

—  Mrs.  Hale. 


One  of  the  grandest  things  in  having  rights  is  that,  hemg  your 
rights,  you  may  give  them  up. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


SABBATH. 

There  are  many  persons  who  think  Sunday  is  a  sponge  with 
which  to  wipe  out  the  sins  of  the  week. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


There  is  a  Sunday  conscience  as  well  as  a  Sunday  coat;  and 
those  who  make  religion  a  secondary  concern  put  the  coat  and 
conscience  carefully  by  to  put  on  only  once  a  week. 

—  Charles  Dickens. 


Tell  me  how  a  professor  spends  his  Sabbaths,  and  I  will  tell 
you  in  what  state  his  soul  is  spiritually  considered. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


The  law  of  the  Sabbath  is  the  key-stone  of  the  arch  of  public 
morals  ;  take  it  away,  and  the  whole  fabric  falls. 


SABBATH.  535 


Sweet  day,  so  cool,  so  calm,  so  bright, 
The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky. 

—  George  Herbert. 


O  day  of  rest  !     How  beautiful,  how  fair. 
How  welcome  to  the  weary  and  the  old  ! 
Day  of  the  Lord  !   and  truce  to  earthly  care  ! 
Day  of  the  Lord,  as  all  our  days  should  be. 

—  Longfellow. 


Sunday  is  the  golden  clasp  that  binds  together  the  volume  of 

the  week. 

—  Longfellow. 


We  believe  that  the  first  day  of  the  week  is  the  Lord's  Day, 
or  Christian  Sabbath  ;  and  is  to  be  kept  sacred  to  religious  pur- 
poses, by  abstaining  from  all  secular  labor  and  sinful  recrea- 
tions ;  by  the  devout  observance  of  all  the  means  of  grace,  both 
private  and  public  ;  and  by  preparation  for  that  rest  that  re- 

maineth  for  the  people  of  God. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


Nothing  draws  along  with  it  such  a  glory  as  the  Sabbath. 
Never  has  it  unfolded  without  some  witness  and  welcome,  some 
song  and  salutation.  It  has  been  the  coronation  day  of  martyrs 
—  the  first  day  of  saints.  It  has  been  from  the  first  day  till  now 
the  sublime  day  of  the  church  of  God;  still  the  outgoings  of  its 
morning  and  evening  rejoice.  Let  us  then  remember  the  Sab- 
bath day  to  keep  it  holy. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


The  longer  I  live  the  more  highly  do  I  estimate  the  Christian 
Sabbath,  and  the  more  grateful  do  I  feel  towards  those  who  im- 
press its  importance  on  the  community. 

—  Daniel  Webster. 


536  SACRAMENT  -  SALVATION. 

I  have,  by  long  and  sound  experience,  found  that  the  due  ob- 
servance of  the  Sabbath  day,  and  of  the  duties  of  it,  have  been 
of  singular  comfort  and  advantage  to  me.  The  observance  of 
the  day  hath  ever  had  joined  to  it,  a  blessing  upon  the  rest  of 
my  time  ;  and  the   week   that  hath  so  begun  hath  been  blessed 

and  prosperous  to  me. 

—  Sir  Matthew  Hale. 


SACRAMENT. 

He  who  receives  a  sacrament  does  not  perform  a  good  work, 

he  receives  a  benefit. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Sacraments,  ordained  of  Christ,  are  not  only  badges  or  tokens 
of  Christian  men's  profession  ;  but  rather  they  are  certain  signs 
of  grace,  and  God's  good-will  towards  us,  by  the  which  He  doth 
work  invisibly  in  us,  and  doth  not  only  quicken,  but  also 
strengthen  and  confirm  our  faith  in  Him. 

—  Articles  of  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


SALVATION. 


The  truth  is  the  Tree  of  Life  knows  no  seasons.  High  up 
among  its  branches  spring  warbles  all  the  year ;  and  they  are 
only  the  poor  pensioners  underneath  who  count  the  months,  and 
tell  an  autumn  and  a  winter. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Brethren,  understand  that  the  gospel  is  a  gospel  which  brings 
a  present  salvation  ;  and  try  to  feel  that  it  is  not  presumption, 
but  simply  out  of  the  very  fundamental  principle  of  it,  when 
you  are  not  afraid  to  say,  "I  /^vz*??*:/ that  my  Redeemer  is  yonder, 
and  I  know  that  He  loves  me." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


SALVATION.  527 


The  waters  of  salvation,  welling  forth  from  the  mercy-seat 
above,  have  descended  in  copious  floods  to  refresh  and  bless  the 
earth.  And  will  you  refuse  to  drink  of  the  river  of  life  which 
flows  full  and  free  before  you,  proffering  health  and  gladness  to 
your  famished  soul,  because  you  cannot  discover  every  thing 
pertaining  to  its  source,  far,  far  away  in  the  recesses  of  the  Eter- 
nal Mind  ? 

—  G.  B.  IDE. 


What  hinders  that  you  should  be  a  child  of  God  ?  Is  not  sal- 
vation free  .''  Is  not  the  invitation  to  it  flung  out  to  you  on  every 
page  of  the  New  Testament }  Is  not  Christ  offered  to  you  in  all 
His  offices  ?  and  are  you  not  welcome  to  all  His  benefits  if  you 
want  them  }  Is  not  the  Holy  Spirit  promised  to  them  that  ask 
Him  ?  Nothing  can  hinder  you  from  being  a  Christian,  but 
your  own  worldly,  selfish,  proud,  obstinate,  unworthy,  and  self- 
righteous  heart. 

—  ICHABOD  Spencer. 


We  believe  that  the  blessings  of  salvation  are  made  free  to  all 
by  the  gospel ;  that  it  is  the  immediate  duty  of  all  to  accept 
them  by  a  cordial,  penitent,  and  obedient  faith  ;  and  that 
nothing  prevents  the  salvation  of  the  greatest  sinner  on  earth, 
but  his  own  inherent  depravity  and  voluntary  rejection  of  the 
gospel  ;  which  rejection  involves  him  in  an  aggravated  con- 
demnation. 

—  Baptist  Church  Manual. 


The  condition  of  salvation  is  that  kind  of  belief  in  Jesus 
Christ  which  authenticates  itself  in  repentance  for  the  past  and 
in  an  amendment  of  life  for  the  future. 

—  L.  L.  Noble. 


This  makes  salvation  great  —  I  shall  know  how  great,  when 
I  can  measure  the  distance  between  the  eternal  and  the  perish- 
able, omnipotence  and  feebleness,  immortality  and  death. 


528  SALVATION. 


The  shipwrecked  passenger  who  grasps  an  oar  does  some- 
thing, but  if  the  possession  of  that  oar  leads  him  to  reject 
the  hand  which  would  draw  him  on  board,  it  is  worse  than 
useless.  If  your  church-going,  if  your  reputable  life,  has  the 
effect  of  saying  to  the  Saviour,  "  No,  thank  you  ;  I  can  float," 
the  publicans  and  vilest  sinners  may  get  to  heaven  before  you. 
But  oh,  rest  not  till  those  everlasting  arms  are  around  you,  and 
although  the  cold  brine  may  still  drip  from  your  garments, 
though  your  limbs  may  still  be  torpid  and  powerless  with  that 
long  exposure  on  the  deep,  still  the  moment  you  clasp  that  out- 
stretched arm  of  mercy,  you  have  come  in  contact  with  what 
will  never  let  you  go. 


None  shall  be  saved  by  Christ  but  those  only  who  work  out 

their  own  salvation  while  God  is  working  in  them  by  His  truth 

and  His  Holy  Spirit.     We  cannot  do  without  God  ;  and  God 

will  not  do  without  us. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


"  But  what  can  mortal  man  do  to  secure  his  own  salvation  ?" 
Mortal  man  can  do  just  what  God  bids  him  do.  He  can  re- 
pent and  believe.     He  can  arise  and  follow  Christ  as  Matthew 

did. 

—  W.  Gladden. 


Grant  that  the  Bible,  the  whole  Bible,  and  nothing  but  the 
Bible  is  God's  truth,  and  I  know  not  in  what  way  you  can  es- 
cape the  doctrine  that  there  is  salvation  only  in  Christ.  From 
the  liberality  which  says  every  body  is  right  —  from  the  charity 
which  forbids  you  to  say  any  body  is  wrong  —  from  the  peace 
which  is  bought  at  the  expense  of  truth,  may  the  good  Lord  de- 
liver you. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


It  is  the  greatness  of  salvation  that  proves  the  utter  ruin  that 
must  follow  its  neglect. 


SANCTIFICATION.  529 

And  is  not  this  a  great  salvation,  great  in  its  simplicity,  great 

in  its  comprehensiveness,  which  thus  meets  the  every  necessity 

of  the  guilty  and  helpless  ;  and  which,  arranged  for  creatures 

whom  it  finds  in  the   lowest  degradation,  leaves  them -not  till 

elevated  to  the  very  summit  of  dignity  ? 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


Joseph  Hart  was  by  the  free  and  sovereign  grace  and  Spirit 

of  God  raised  up  from  the  depths  of  sin  and  delivered  from  the 

bonds  of   mere  profession  and   self-righteousness,  and  led  to 

rest  entirely  for  salvation  in  the  finished  atonement  and  perfect 

obedience  of  Christ. 

—  Old  English  Epitaph. 


It  is  God's  purpose  to  save  —  to  save  His  people  from  their 

sins,  to  purge  out  of  them   all  hypocrisy,  falsehood,  injustice, 

and  make  of  them  honest    men,  true   men,  just  men  —  men 

created  anew  after  His  likeness.  And  this  is  the  meaning  of  His 

salvation  ;  and  is  the  only  salvation  worth  having,  for  this  life 

or  the  life  to  come. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


SANCTIFICATION. 

Sanctification  is  the  work  of  God's  free  grace,  whereby  we 
are  renewed  in  the  whole  man  after  the  image  of  God,  and  are 
enabled  more  and  more  to  die  unto  sin,  and  live  unto  right- 
eousness. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


Can  we  doubt  that  God  acts  immediately  in  the  soul  ?  that 
He  so  acts  as  to  make  it  die  to  self  ?  that,  after  having  sub- 
dued the  grosser  passions.  He  attacks  all  the  subtle  resources 
of  self-love  within,  especially  in  those  souls  who  have  without 
reserve  delivered  themselves  up  to  the  operations  of  His  grace? 
34 


530  SCIENCE. 

It  is  in  some  respect  greater  love  in  Jesus  to  sanctify  than  to 
justify,  for  He  maketh  us  most  like  Himself,  in  His  own  essen- 
tial portraiture  and  image  in  sanctifying  us. 

—  Rutherford. 


When  God  lifts  you  up  into  the  arms  of  His  grace  and  renews 
your  nature,  there  is  a  new  force,  a  new  love,  and  therefore  a 
new  man.  But  this  new  life  must  take  on  the  hardness  of 
habit,  must  be  entrenched  in  your  being  by  habitual  exercise, 
or  the  old  yesterday  will  be  back  upon  you  and  supreme  again. 

—  The  Methodist. 


SCIENCE. 

All  the  sciences  in  the  world  never  smoothed  down  a  dying 
pillow.     No  earthly  philosophy  ever  supplied  hope  in  death. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


But  when  science,  passing  beyond  its  own  limits,  assumes  to 
take  the  place  of  theology,  and  sets  up  its  own  conception  of 
the  order  of  nature  as  a  sufficient  account  of  its  cause,  it  is  in- 
vading a  province  of  thought  to  which  it  has  no  claim,  and  not 
unreasonably  provokes  the  hostility  of  its  best  friends. 

—  M,  B.  Carpenter. 


Our  abiding  belief  is  that  just  as  the  workmen  in  the  tun- 
nel of  St.  Gothard,  working  from  either  end,  met  at  last  to 
shake  hands  in  the  very  central  root  of  the  mountain,  so  stu- 
dents of  nature  and  students  of  Christianity  will  yet  join  hands 
in  the  unity  of  reason  and  faith,  in  the  heart  of  their  deepest 
mysteries.  — Lemuel  Moss. 

Believe  in  God,  and  bid  all  knowledge  speed.  Sooner  or 
later  the  full  harmony  will  reveal  itself,  the  discords  and  con- 
tradictions disappear. 


SECURITY.  531 


Through  all  God's  works  there   runs  a  beautiful  harmony. 

The  remotest  truth  in  His  universe  is  linked  to  that  which  lies 

nearest  the  throne. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


What  are  the  sciences  but  maps  of  universal  laws,  and  uni- 
versal laws  but  the  channels  of  universal  power ;  and  universal 

power  but  the  outgoings  of  a  universal  mind  ? 

—  Edward  Thoimson. 


Science  is  a  good  piece  of  furniture  for  a  man  to  have  in  an 

upper  chamber,  provided  he  has  common  sense  on  the  ground 

floor. 

—  O.  W.  Holmes. 


Holding  then  to  science  with  one  hand  —  the  left  hand  —  we 
give  the  right  hand  to  religion,  and  cry  :  "  Open  Thou  mine 
eyes,  that  I  may  behold  wondrous  things,  more  wondrous  than 
the  shining  worlds  can  tell."  Obedient  to  the  promise,  religion 
does  waken  faculties  within  us,  does  teach  our  eyes  to  the  be- 
holding of  more  wonderful  things.  Those  great  worlds  blazing 
like  suns  die  like  feeble  stars  in  the  glory  of  the  morning,  in 
the  presence  of  this  new  light.  The  soul  knows  that  an  infinite 
sea  of  love  is  all  about  it,  throbbing  through  it,  everlasting  arms 
of  affection  lift  it,  and  it  bathes  itself  in  the  clear  consciousness 

of  a  Father's  love. 

—  Bishop  H.  W.  Warren. 


It  is  better  to  inspire  the  heart  with  a  noble  sentiment  than  to 
teach  the  mind  a  truth  of  science. 


SECURITY. 
He  who  stands  upon  his  own  strength  will  never  stand. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


533  SELF-DENIAL. 


When  life  has  been  well  spent;  when  there  is  a  conscience 
without  reproach  ;  when  there  is  faith  in  the  Saviour ;  when 
there  is  a  well-founded  hope  of  heaven,  there  can  be  nothing 
that  should  disquiet  us. 

—  Albert  Barnes. 


When  you  have  overcome  one  temptation,  you  must  be  ready 
to  enter  the  lists  with  another.  As  distrust,  in  some  sense,  is 
the  mother  of  safety,  so  security  is  the  gate  of  danger.  A  man 
had  need  to  fear  this  most  of  all,  that  he  fears  not  at  all. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


How  easy  it  is  for  men  to  be  swollen  with  admiration  of  their 
own  strength  and  glory,  and  to  be  lifted  up  so  high  as  to  lose 
sight  both  of  the  ground  whence  they  rose,  and  the  hand  that 
advanced  them. 

—  Bishop  Hall. 


The  weakest  spot  in  every  man  is  where  he  thinks  himself  to 
be  the  wisest. 

—  Emmons. 


Many  of  the  Bible  characters  fell  just  in  the  things  in  which 
they  were  thought  to  be  strongest.  iVLoses  failed  in  his  humil- 
ity, Abraham  in  his  faith,  Elijah  in  his  courage,  for  one  woman 
scared  him  away  to  that  juniper-tree  ;  and  Peter,  whose  strong 
point  was  boldness,  was  so  frightened  by  a  maid,  as  to  deny  his 
Lord. 

—  D.  L,  Moody. 


SELF-DENIAL. 

There  never  did,  and  there  never  will  exist  any  thing  perma- 
nently noble  and  excellent  in  the  character  which  is  a  stranger 

to  the  exercise  of  resolute  self-denial. 

—  Sir  Walter  Scott. 


SELF-DENIAL.  533 


One  never  knows  a  man  till  he  has  refused  him  something, 
and  studied  the  effect  of  the  refusal  ;  one  never  knows  himself 
till  he  has  denied  himself.  The  altar  of  sacrifice  is  the  touch- 
stone of  character.  The  cross  compels  a  choice  for  or  against 
Christ. 

O.   P.   GiFFORD. 


Self-denial  must  reach  beyond  gross  and  undoubted  sins. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Sacrifice  alone,  bare  and  unrelieved,  is  ghastly,  unnatural,  and 

dead  ;  but  self-sacrifice,  illuminated  by  love,  is  warmth  and  life  ; 

it  is  the  death  of  Christ,  the  life  of  God,  the  blessedness  and 

only  proper  life  of  man. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Contempt  of  all  outward  things,  which  come  in  competition 
with  duty,  fulfills  the  ideal  of  human  greatness.  This  convic- 
tion, that  readiness  to  sacrifice  life's  highest  material  good  and 
life  itself,  is  essential  to  the  elevation  of  human  nature,  is  no  il- 
lusion of  ardent  youth,  nor  outburst  of  blind  enthusiasm.  It 
does  not  yield  to  growing  wisdom.  It  is  confirmed  by  all  ex- 
perience. It  is  sanctioned  by  conscience  —  that  universal  and 
eternal  lawgiver  whose  chief  dictate  is,  that  every  thing  must  be 

yielded  up  for  the  right. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


In  heaven,  we  shall  never  regret  any  sacrifice  however  pain- 
ful, or  labor  however  protracted,  made  or  performed  here  for 

the  cause  of  Christ. 

—  Mary  Lyon. 


Nothing  is  really  lost  by  a  life  of  sacrifice  ;  every  thing  is  lost 
by  failure  to  obey  God's  call. 

—  H.  P.  Liddon. 


534  SELF-DENIAL. 


They  that  deny  themselves  for  Christ  shall  enjoy  themselves 
in  Christ. 

—  J.  M.  Mason. 


The  sweetest  life  is  to  be  ever  making  sacrifices  for  Christ  ; 
the  hardest  life  a  man  can  lead  on  earth,  the  most  full  of  misery, 
is  to  be  always  doing  his  own  will  and  seeking  to  please  himself. 

—  Edward  H.  Bickersteth. 


Take  thy  self-denials  gaily  and  cheerfully,  and  let  the  sunshine 
of  thy  gladness  fall   on  dark  things  and  bright  alike,  like  the 

sunshine  of  the  Almighty. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


Whoever  will  labor  to  get  rid  of  self,  to  deny  himself,  accord- 
ing to  the  instructions  of  Christ,  strikes  at  once  at  the  root  of 
every  evil,  and  finds  the  germ  of  every  good. 

—  Fenelon. 


That  which  especially  distinguishes  a  high  order  of  man  from 
a  low  order  of  man,  that  which  constitutes  human  goodness, 
human  nobleness,  is  surely  not  the  degree  of  enlightenment  with 
which  men  pursue  their  own  advantage ;  but  it  is  self-forgetful- 
ness  ;  it  is  self-sacrifice  ;  it  is  the  disregard  of  personal  pleasure, 
personal  indulgence,  personal  advantage,  remote  or  present,  be- 
cause some  other  line  of  conduct  is  more  right. 

—  J.  A.  Froude. 


Which  do  you  think  of  most,  your  interest  or  your  duty  ? 
Can  you  sell  all  for  the  pearl  of  great  price  ?  Are  these  the 
natural  breathings  of  your  heart :  "  Thy  kingdom  come.  Thy 
will  be  done  ?  "  Is  the  cause  of  Christ  your  concern,  the  dis- 
honor of  Christ  your  affliction,  the  cross  of  Christ  your  glory  ? 
If  so, you  are  not  strangers  to  the  spirit  of  self-denial. 

—  Gardiner  Spring." 


SELFISHNESS.  535 

Deny  thyself,  take  up  thy  cross,  and  follow  me.    This  is  war, 

not  peace.   It  is  battle  declared  against  the  world,  the  flesh,  and 

the  devil.     In  me  said  Christ,  "ye  have  peace," — not  in  the 

world  ;  there  is  no  promise  of  it  there. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


The  secret  belief  that  the  Lord  of  conscience  loves  and  ac- 
cepts each  faithful  sacrifice  is  the  ultimate  and  sufficient  sup- 
port of  all  goodness  ;  dispensing  with  the  chorus  of  approving 
voices  ;  replacing  all  vain  self-reliance  with  a  Divine  strength; 
and  with  the  peace  of  a  reconciled  nature  consoling  the  inevit- 
able sorrows  of  a  devoted  life. 

—  James  Martineau. 


The  very  act  of  faith  by  which  we  receive  Christ  is  an  act 
of  the  utter  renunciation  of  self,  and  all  its  works,  as  a  ground 
of  salvation.  It  is  really  a  denial  of  self,  and  a  grounding  of 
its  arms  in  the  last  citadel  into  which  it  can  be  driven,  and  is, 
in  its  principle,  inclusive  of  every  subsequent  act  of  self-denial 

by  which  sin  is  forsaken  or  overcome. 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Self-denial  is  the  result  of  a  calm,  deliberate,  invincible  at- 
tachment to  the  highest  good,  flowing  forth  in  the  voluntary 
renunciation  of  every  thing  that  is  inconsistent  with  the  glory 

of  God  or  the  good  of  our  fellow  men. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


The  first  lesson  in  Christ's  school  is  self-denial. 

—  Matthew  Henry. 


SELFISHNESS. 
Show  me  the  man  who  would  go  to  heaven  alone  if  he  could^ 
and  I  will  show  you  one  who  will  never  be  admitted  there. 

—  Owen  Feltham. 


53G  SELFISHNESS. 

Did  any  man  at  his  death  ever  regret  his  conflicts  with  him- 
self, his  victories  over  appetite,  his  scorn  of  impure  pleasure, 
or  his  sufferings  for  righteousness'  sake  ? 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


A  man  as  he  goes  down  in  self,  goes  up  in  God.  It  is  inter- 
esting to  trace  this  in  the  experience  of  the  apostle  Paul,  as 
gathered  from  his  Epistles.  In  the  year  of  our  Lord  59,  he  is 
the  least  of  the  apostles,  and  not  fit  to  be  called  an  apostle,  be- 
cause he  persecuted  the  church  of  God.  In  the  year  of  our 
Lord  64,  after  four  years  more  of  growth  in  grace,  he  is  "  less 
than  the  least  of  all  saints."  But  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  65, 
and  not  long  before  he  was  about  to  receive  his  crown  in 
heaven,  he  is  "the  chief  of  sinners." 

—  Dr.  Cheever. 


I  hold,  in  truth,  with  him  who  sings 
To  one  clear  harp  in  divers  tones, 
That  men  may  rise  on  stepping-stones 

Of  their  dead  selves  to  higher  things. 

—  Tennyson. 


If  we  desire  to  do  what  will  please  God,  and  what  will  help 

men,  we  presently  find  ourselves  taken  out  of  our  narrow  habits 

of  thought  and   action;  we  find  new  elements  of   our  nature 

called  into  activity;  we  are  no  longer  running  along  a  narrow 

track  of  selfish  habit. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


O  Lord,  self-renunciation  is  not  the  work  of  one  day,  nor 
children's  sport ;  yea,  rather  in  this  word  is  included  all  per- 
fection. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


A  man  is  called  selfish,  not  for  pursuing  his  own  good,  but 
for  neglecting  his  neighbor's. 


SELFISHNESS.  537 

The  very  heart  and  root  of  sin  is  in  an  independent  spirit. 

We  erect  the  idol  self ;  and  not  only  wish  others  to  worship, 

but  worship  ourselves. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


We  can  neither  change  nor  overpower  God's  eternal  suffrage 

against  selfishness  and  meanness. 

—  James  Martineau. 


Deliver  me,  O  Lord,  from  that  evil  man,  myself. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


The  selfish  man  cuts  away  the  sand  from  under  his  own  feet, 

he  digs  his  own  grave  ;  and  every  time,  from  the  beginning  of 

the  world  until  now,  God  Almighty  pushes  him  into  the  grave 

and  covers  him  up. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler. 


Alas  !  how  many  souls  there  are  full  of  self,  and  yet  desirous 
of  doing  good  and  serving  God,  but  in  such  a  way  as  to  suit 
themselves ;  who  desire  to  impose  rules  upon  God  as  to  His 
manner  of  drawing  them  to  Himself.  They  want  to  serve  and 
possess  Him,  but  they  are  not  willing  to  be  possessed  by  Him. 

—  Fenelon. 


It  is  self-love  and  its  offspring  self-deception,  which  shut  the 
gates  of  heaven,  and  lead  men,  as  if  in  a  delicious  dream,  to  hell. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Beware  of  no  man  more  than  of  yourself  ;  we  carry  our  worst 

enemies  within  us. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Selfishness  is  the  making  a  man's  self  his  own  centre,  the  be- 
ginning and  end  of  all  he  death. 

—  John  Owen. 


538  SELFISHNESS. 


If  you  seek  in  the  spirit  of  selfishness,  to  grasp  all  as  your 
own,  you  shall  lose  all,  and  be  driven  out  of  the  world,  at  last, 
naked  and  forlorn,  to  everlasting  poverty  and  contempt. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 

If  we  look  only  to  self  even  in  spiritual  things,  it  is  still  self- 
ishness though  possibly  on  a  somewhat  higher  plane  than  be- 
fore'. 

—  A.  P.  Van  Giesen. 


There  is  a  sickly  habit  that  men  get  of  looking  into  them- 
selves, and  thinking  how  they  are  appearing.  We  are  always 
unnatural  when  we  do  that.  The  very  tread  of  one  who  is  think- 
ing how  he  appears  to  others  becomes  dizzy  with  affectation. 
He  is  too  conscious  of  what  he  is  doing,  and  self-consciousness 
is  affectation.  Let  us  aim  at  being  natural.  And  we  can  only 
become  natural  by  thinking  of  God  and  duty,  instead  of  the 
way  in  which  we  are  serving  God  and  duty.         , 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


We  are  too  much  haunted  by  ourselves;  we  project  the  central 

shadow  of  ourselves  on  every  thing  around  us.  And  then  comes 

in  the  gospel  to  rescue  us  from  this  selfishness.     Redemption  is 

this  —  to  forget  self  in  God. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


I  am  not  sure  that  it  is  best  for  us,  once  safe  and  secure  on 
the  Rock  of  Ages,  to  ask  ourselves  too  closely  what  this  and  that 
experience  may  signify.  Is  it  not  better  to  be  thinking  of  the 
Rock,  not  of  the  feet  that  stand  upon  it  ? 

—  Elizabeth  Prentiss. 


Less,  less  of  self  each  day. 
And  more,  my  God,  of  Thee  ! 

HORATIUS  BONAR. 


SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.  539 

Think  about  yourselves;  about  what  you  want,  what  jw/  like, 
what  respect  people  ought  to  pay  to  you,  what  people  think  of 
youj  and  then  to  you  nothing  will  be  pure.  May  God  keep 
our  hearts  pure  from  that  selfishness  which  is  the  root  of  all  sin. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

The  thing  of  all  others  that  unfits  men  for  the  reception  of 
Christ  as  a  Saviour,  and  for  the  simple  reliance  on  His  atoning 
blood  and  Divine  mercy,  is  not  gross,  long  profligacy,  and  out- 
ward, vehement  transgression  ;  bat  it  is  self-complacency,  clean, 
fatal  self-righteousness,  and  self-sufficiency. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


God  has  nothing  to  say  to  the  self-righteous.  Unless  you 
humble  yourself  before  Him  in  the  dust,  and  confess  before  Him 
your  iniquities  and  sins,  the  gate  of  heaven,  which  is  open  only 
for  siimers,  saved  by  grace,  must  be  shut  against  you  forever. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


You  can  always  tell  when  a  man  is  a  great  ways  from  God  — 
he  is  always  talking  about  himself,  how  good  he  is.  But  the 
moment  he  sees  God  by  the  eye  of  faith,  he  is  down  on  his 
knees,  and,  like  Job,  he  cries,  "Behold  I  am  vile." 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


Those  who  err  in  one  direction,  always  take  care  to  let  you 
know  that  they  are  quite  free  from  error  in  the  opposite  direc- 
tion. A  boorish  man  thanks  God  very  loudly  that  he  is  not  in- 
sincere —  nobody  having  ever  thought  of  accusing  him  even  of 
that  small  and  wretched  approach  to  politeness,  which  is  some- 
times flavored  by  insincerity. 

—  Sir  Arthur  Helps. 


540  SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Never  have   I  greater   reason   for   suspicion  than  when  I  am 

particularly  pleased  with  myself,  my  faith,  my  progress,  and  my 

alms. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


For  when  man  comes  to  front  the  everlasting  God,  and  look 

the  splendor  of   His  judgments  in  the  face,  personal  integrity, 

the  dream  of  spotlessness  and  innocence,  vanishes  into  thin  air  ; 

your   decencies   and  your  church-goings  and  your  regularities 

and  your  attachment  to  a  correct  school  and  party,  your  gospel 

formulas  of  sound  doctrine  —  what   is  all  that,  in  front  of  the 

blaze  of  the  wrath  to  come  ? 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Let  us  pray  God  that  He  would  root  out  of  our  hearts  every 
thing  of  our  own  planting,  and  set  out  there,  with  His  own 
hands,  the  tree  of  life,  bearing  all  manner  of  fruits. 

—  Fenelon. 


A  man  may  as  certainly  miscarry  by  his  seeming  righteous- 
ness and  supposed  graces,  as  by  gross  sins ;  and  that  is,  when 
a  man  doth  trust  in  these  as  his  righteousness  before  God,  for 
the  satisfying  His  justice,  appeasing  His  wrath,  procuring  His 
favor,  and  obtaining  his  own  pardon. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


If  there  be  ground  for  you  to  trust,  as  you  do,  in  your  own 
righteousness,  then  all  that  Christ  did  to  purchase  salvation, 
and  all  that  God  did  from  the  fall  of  man  to  prepare  the  way 
for  it,  is  m  vain.  Consider  what  greater  folly  could  you  have 
devised. to  charge  upon  God  than  this,  that  all  those  things 
were  done  so  needlessly;  when,  instead  of  all  this.  He  might 
only  have  called  you  forth,  and  committed  the  business  to  you, 
which  you  think  you  can  do  so  easily. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 

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SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.  541 

What  self-righteous   persons  take  to  themselves,  is  the  same 

work  that  Christ  was  engaged  in  when  He  was  in  His  agony  and 

bloody  sweat,  and  when  He   died  on  the  cross,  which  was  the 

greatest  thing  that   ever   the   eyes  of  angels  beheld.      Christ 

could  accomplish  other  parts  of  this  work  without  cost;  but 

this  part  cost  Him  His  life,  as  well  as  innumerable  pains  and 

labors.     Yet  this  is  the  part  which  self-righteous  persons  go 

about  to  accomplish  for  themselves. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


Regret   not  that  which  is  past  ;  and  trust  not  to  thine  own 

righteousness. 

—  St.  Anthony. 


You  trust  in  your  own  doings  to  appease  God  for  your  sins^ 
and  to  incline  the  heart  of  God  to  you.  Though  you  are  poor, 
worthless,  vile,  and  polluted,  yet  you  arrogantly  take  upon  you 
that  very  work  for  which  the  Son  of  God  became  man  ;  and  in 
order  to  which  God  employed  four  thousand  years  in  all  the 
great  dispensations  of  His  providence,  aiming  chiefly  to  make 
way  for  Christ's  coming  to  do  this  work.  This  is  the  work  that 
you  foolishly  think  yourselves  sufficient  for;  as  though  your 
prayers  and  performances  were  excellent  enough  for  this  pur- 
pose. Consider  how  vain  is  the  thought  which  you  entertain 
of  yourself.  How  must  such  arrogance  appear  in  the  sight  of 
Christ,  whom  it  cost  so  much  ?  It  was  not  to  be  obtained  even 
by  Him,  so  great  and  glorious  a  person,  at  a  cheaper  rate  than 
His  wading  through  a  sea  of  blood,  and  passing  through  the 
midst  of  the  furnace  of  God's  wrath. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


To  depend  partly  upon  Christ's  righteousness  and  partly 
upon  our  own,  is  to  set  one  foot  upon  a  rock  and  another  in 
the  quicksands.  Christ  will  either  be  to  us  all  in  all  in  point 
of  righteousness,  or  else  nothing  at  all. 

—  Thomas  Erskine. 


543  SELF-SURRENDER. 

You  that  trust  in  your  own  righteousness,  arrogate  to  your- 
selves the  honor  of  the  greatest  thing  that,  even  God  Himself 
ever  did.  You  seem  not  only  sufficient  to  perform  Divine 
works,  but  such  is  your  pride  and  vanity,  that  you  are  not  con- 
tent without  taking  upon  you  to  do  the  N&ry  greatest  work  that 
ever  God  Himself  wrought.  God's  works  of  providence  are 
greater  than  those  of  creation.  To  take  on  yourself  to  work 
out  redemption,  is  a  greater  thing  than  if  you  had  taken  it  upon 

you  to  create  a  world. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


SELF-SURRENDER. 

Surrender  yourselves  then  to  be  led  and  disposed  of  just-as 

God  pleases,  with  respect  both  to  your   oiitivard  and  inward 

state. 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


O  Lord  !  take  my  heart,  for  I  cannot  give  it  ;  and  when 
Thou  hast  it,  O  !  keep  it,  for  I  cannot  keep  it  for  Thee;  and 
save  me  in  spite  of  myself,  for  Jesus  Christ's  sake. 

—  Fenelon. 


If  Ave  love  Him  infinitely  more  than  we  do  ourselves,  we  make 

an  unconditional  sacrifice  of  ourselves  to  His  good  pleasure, 

desiring  only  to  love  Him  and  to  forget  ourselves.   He  who  thus 

loses  his  soul  shall  find  it  again  with  eternal  life. 

—  Fenelon. 


There  is  but  one  way  in  which  God  should  be  loved,  and  that 
is  to  take  no  step  except  with  Him  and  for  Him,  and  to  follow 
with  a  generous  self-abandonment  every  thing  which  He  re- 
quires. 

—  Fenelon. 


Love  so  amazing,  so  Divine, 

Demands  my  soul,  my  life,  my  all. 


SliMPLlClTV.  543 


We  must  surrender  our  whole  being  to  Christ  Jesus,  and 
cease  to  live  any  longer  in  ourselves,  that  He  may  become  our 
life  ;  that  being  dead,  "our  life  may  be  hid  with  Christ  in  God." 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


Here  it  is  that  the  Spirit  teaches  us  all  truth  ;  for  all  truth  is 
eminently  contained  in  this  sacrifice  of  love,  where  the  soul  strips 
itself  of  every  thing  to  present  it  to  God. 

—  Fenelon. 


We  have  communion  in  Christ's  sufferings  as  we  die  with  Him 
unto  self,  and  rise  with  Him  to  our  proper  life  —  the  life  of  self- 
surrender  to  the  will  of  God. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


"  Cheerfully  and  gratefully  I  lay  myself  and  all  I  am  or  own 
at  the  feet  of  Him  who  redeemed  me  with  His  precious 
blood,  engaging  to  follow  Him,  bearing  the  cross  He  lays  upon 
me."  This  is  the  least  I  can  do,  and  I  do  it  while  my  heart  lies 
broken  and  bleeding  at  His  feet. 

—  Elizabeth  Prentiss. 


I  have  just  put  my  soul  as  a  blank  into  the  hand  of  Jesus,  my 
Redeemer,  and  desired  Him  to  write  on  it  what  He  pleases  ;  I 
know  it  will  be  His  image. 

—  Whitfield. 


O  God,  the  creature  knows  not  to  what  end  Thou  hast  made 
Him  ;  teach  him,  and  write  in  the  depths  of  his  soul  that  the 
clay  must  suffer  itself  to  be  shaped  at  the  will  of  the  potter. 

—  Fenelon, 


SIMPLICITY. 

The  greatest  truths  are  the  simplest. 
And  so  are  the  greatest  men. 


544  SIMPLICITY. 


Nothing  is  more  simple  than  greatness  ;  indeed  to  be  simple. 

is  to  be  great. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


"Blessed  are  the   poor  in  spirit."     Blessed  are  they  who  are 

stripped  of  every  thing,  even  of  their  own  wills,  that  they  may 

no  longer  belong  to  themselves. 

—  Fenelon. 


God  would  behold  in  you  a  simplicity  which  will  contain  so 
much  the  more  of  His  wisdom  as  it  contains  less  of  your  own. 

—  Fenelon. 


True  simplicity  regards  God  alone  ;  it  has  its  eye  fixed  upon 
Him,  and  is  not  drawn  toward  self;  and  it  is  as  pleased  to  say 
humble  as  great  things.  All  our  uneasy  feelings  and  reflections 
arise  from  self-love,  whatever  appearance  of  piety  they  may  as- 
sume. The  lack  of  simplicity  inflicts  many  wounds.  Go  where 
we  will,  if  we  remain  in  ourselves,  we  shall  carry  everywhere 
our  sins  and  our  distresses.  If  we  would  live  in  peace,  we  must 
lose  sight  of  self,  and  rest  in  the  infinite  and  unchangeable  God. 

—  Madame  Guyon. 


He  sows  June  fields  with  clover,  and  the  world 
Broadcasts  with  little  common  kindnesses. 
The  plain  good  souls  He  sends  us,  who  fulfill 
Life's  homely  duties  in  the  daily  path 
With  cheerful  heart,  ambitious  of  no  more 
Than  to  supply  the  wants  of  friend  and  kin, 
Yet  serve  God's  higher  love  to  human  hearts  ; 
Giving  a  secret  sweetness  to  the  home, 
The  hidden  fragrance  of  a  kindly  heart. 
The  simple  beauty  of  a  useful  life. 
That  never  dazzles,  and  that  never  tires. 

—  Samuel  Longfellow. 


SIN.  545 

Simpler  manners,  purer  lives  ;  more  self-denial ;  more  earnest 

sympathy  with  the  classes  that  lie  below  us,  nothing  short  of 

that  can  lay  the  foundations  of  the  Christianity  which  is  to  be 

hereafter,  deep  and  broad. 

— F.  W.  Robertson. 


Simplicity  and  purity   are   the  two  wings  by  which  a  man  is 

lifted  above  all  earthly  things.     Simplicity  is  in  the  intention 

—  purity  in  the  affection.     Simplicity  tends  to  God, —  purity 

apprehends  and  tastes  Him. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


As  to  our  friend,  I  pray  God  to  bestow  upon  him  a  simplicity 

that  shall  give  him  peace.     Happy   are   they  indeed  who  can 

bear  their  sufferings  in  the  enjoyment  of  this  simple  peace  and 

perfect  acquiesence  in  the  will  of  God. 

—  Fenelon. 


If  our  love  were  but  more  simple, 

We  should  take  Him  at  His  word ; 
And  our  lives  would  be  all  sunshine 

In  the  sweetness  of  the  Lord. 

—  F.  W.  Faber, 


If  you  wish  to  be  like  a  little  child,  study  what  a  little  child 
could  understand  —  nature  ;  and  do  what  a  little  child  could  do 
—  love. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


SIN. 

Sin  is  essentially  a  departure  from  God. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


Sin  is  any  want  of  conformity  unto,  or  transgression  of  the 
law  of  God. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 
35 


546  SIN. 

The  Greek  word  for  wickedness  is  lawlessness. 


Sin  is  the  insurrection  and  rebellion  of  the  heart  against  God ; 
it  turns  from  Him,  and  turns  against  Him  ;  it  takes  up  arms 
against  God. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


He  that  hath  slight  thoughts  of  sin,  never  had  great  thoughts 

of  God. 

—  John  Owen. 


Sin  is  an  awful  fact.  It  beggars  description.  Like  the  shirt 
of  Nessus,  it  burns  one  alive.  As  that  poisoned  garment  ate 
away  the  muscles  of  the  victim  in  his  vain  attempt  to  rid  him- 
self of  it,  so  sin  will  destroy  the  power  of  him  who  becomes  its 
victim.       Eternal  death  is  eternal  sin  ;  sin  through  all  the  ages, 

—  T.  W.  Chambers. 

Sin !  Sin  !  Thou  art  a  hateful  and  horrible  thing,  that  abom- 
inable thing  which  God  hates.  And  what  wonder.'*  Thou  hast 
insulted  His  holy  majesty  ;  thou  hast  bereaved  Him  of  beloved 
children  ;  thou  hast  crucified  the  Son  of  His  infinite  love  ;  thou 
hast  vexed  His  gracious  Spirit  ;  thou  hast  defied  His  power  ; 
thou  hast  despised  His  grace ;  and  in  the  body  and  blood  of 
Jesus,  as  if  that  were  a  common  thing,  thou  hast  trodden  under 
foot  His  matchless  mercy.  Surely,  brethren,  the  wonder  of 
wonders  is,  that  sin  is  not  that  abominable  thing  which  we  also 

iate. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


Retribution,  atonement,  grace,  redemption,  a  great  perdition, 
a  great  salvation,  a  great  and  Divine  Saviour,  all  become  cred- 
ible when  there  is  truly  realized  the  idea  of  sin.  They  all  rise 
as  it  rises  in  the  moral  estimate  ;  they  all  fall  as  it  falls.  When 
it  goes  out,  they  become  incredible. 


SIN.  547 

The  God  of  truth  declares,  that  all  have  sinned  ;  the  broken 
law  cries  for  vengeance  against  transgressors,  and  by  it  is  the 
knowledge  of  sin  ;  conscience,  God's  deputy  in  every  man's 
bosom,  tells  him  he  is  guilty  ;  the  reign  of  death,  and  the  groans 
of  the  creatures  round  about  us,  all  bear  testimony  that  there 
is  such  a  thing  as  sin  in  the  world. 

—  Fisher's  Catechism. 


I  learn  the  depth  to  which  I  have  sunk  from  the  length  of 
the  chain  let  down  to  up-draw  me.  I  ascertain  the  mightiness 
of  the  ruin  by  examining  the  machinery  for  restoration. 

—  Henry  Melvill. 


There  is  the  seed  of  all  sins  —  of  the  vilest  and  worst  of  sins 
—  in  the  best  of  men. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


No  sin  is  small.  It  is  a  sin  against  an  infinite  God,  and  may 
have  consequences  immeasurable.  No  grain  of  sand  is  small 
in  the  mechanism  of  a  watch. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


St.  Augustine  used  to  say  that,  but  for  God's  grace,  he  should 
have  been  capable  of  committing  any  crime ;  and  it  is  when 
we  feel  this  sincerely,  that  we  are  most  likely  to  be  really  im- 
proving, and  best  able  to  give  assistance  to  others  without 
moral  loss  to  ourselves. 

H.  P.   LiDDON. 


Remember  that  every  guilty  compliance  with  the  humors  of 
the  world,  every  sinful  indulgence  of  our  own  passions,  is  lay- 
ing up  cares  and  fears  for  the  hour  of  darkness  ;  and  that  the 
remembrance  of  ill-spent  time  will  strew  our  sick-bed  with 
thorns,  and  rack  our  sinking  spirits  with  despair. 

—  Bishop  Heber, 


548  SIN. 

Misery  follows  sin;  sin  itself  is  misery;  and  the  soul  that 
sinneth  dies  of  course,  without  any  means  taken  to  put  that 
soul  to  death  ;  though  Divine  interference  would  be  indispens- 
able to  prevent  the  consequences  following  the  cause. 

—  Caroline  Fry. 


God,  save  us  from  ourselves  !  We  carry  within  us  the  ele- 
ments of  hell  if  we  but  choose  to  make  them  such.  Ahaz, 
Judas,  Nero,  Borgia,  Herod,  all  were  once  prattling  infants  in 
happy  mother's  arms. 

—  Austin  Phelps. 


Lord,  pardon  what  I  have  been,  sanctify  what  I  am,  and 
order  what  I  shall  be,  that  Thine  may  be  the  glory,  and  mine 
the  eternal  salvation. 


He  that  avoideth  not  small  faults,  by  little  and  little  falleth 
into  greater. 

—  Tho.mas  a  Kempis. 


The  fact  is  that  sin  is  the  most  unmanly  thing  in  God's 
world.  You  never  were  made  for  sin  and  selfishness.  You 
were  made  for  love  and  obedience. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


There  are  burdens  which  are  bad  and  blameworthy,  and 
these  it  is  our  duty  at  once  to  cast  away.  Such  a  burden  is 
the  evil  conscience,  from  which  the  true  deliverance  is  the 
cross  of  Christ ;  such  a  burden  is  the  easily  besetting  sin,  from 
which  the  sanctifying  Spirit  sets  free  the  vigilant  and  prayer- 
ful Christian. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Yes,  every  sin  is  a  mistake,  and  the  epitaph  for  the  sinner  is, 
"Thou  fool." 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


SIN.  549 

Sin  works  by  no  set  methods.  It  has  a  way  of  ruin  for  every 
man,  that  is  original  and  proper  only  to  himself.  Suffice  it  to 
say  that,  as  long  as  you  are  in  and  under  its  power,  you  can 
never  tell  what  you  are  in  danger  of.  This  one  thing  you  may 
have  as  a  truth  eternally  fixed,  that  respectable  sin  is,  in  prin- 
ciple, the  mother  of  all  basest  crime.  Follow  it  on  to  the  bit- 
ter end,  and  there  is  ignominy  eternal. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


To  please  ourselves  with  a  notion  of  gospel  liberty,  while  we 
have  not  a  gospel  principle  of  holiness  within  to  free  us  from 
the  power  of  sin,  is  nothing  else  but  to  gild  over  our  bonds  and 
fetters,  and  to  fancy  ourselves  the  inmates  of  a  golden  cage. 
There  is  a  straitness,  slavery,  and  narrowness  in  sin  ;  sin  crowds 
and  crumples  up  our  souls  which,  if  they  were  freely  spread 
abroad,  would  be  as  wide  and  as  broad  as  the  whole  universe. 
No  man  is  truly  free,  but  he  that  has  his  will  enlarged  to  the 
extent  of  God's  own  will,  by  loving  whatever  God  loves,  and 
nothing  else. 

CUDWORTH. 


Sin  is  a  state  of  mind,  not  an  outward  act. 

—  J.  M.  Sewell. 


Sin,  without  strong  restraints,   would    pull    God   from   His 

throne,  make  the  world  the  minion  of  its  lusts,  and  all  beings 

bow  down  and  worship. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Sin  murders  the  soul.  Its  withering,  blasting  curse  is  not 
exhausted  in  this  life,  but  goes  with  us  into  eternity,  to  be  per- 
fected and  perpetuated  there.  "  The  wages  of  sin  is  death  "  — 
death  to  all  spiritual  life  now,  and  an  immortality  of  pain  and 
tears  and  despair.  "  The  sting  of  death  is  sin  ;  "  the  weeping 
and  wailing  of  the  judgment  will  be  sin  ;  and  sin  will  be  the 
ever-gnawing  worm  and  the  quenchless  fire. 


550  SIN. 

•  The  slave  who  digs  in  the  mine  or  labors  at  the  oar  can  re- 
joice at  the  prospect  of  laying  down  his  burden  together  with 
his  life  ;  but  to  the  slave  of  guilt  there  arises  no  hope  from 
death.  On  the  contrary,  he  is  obliged  to  look  forward  with 
constant  terror  to  this  most  certain  of  all  events,  as  the  conclu- 
sion of  all  his  hopes,  and  the  commencement  of  his  greatest 
miseries. 

—  Blair. 


Every  burning  tear,  every  harrowing  fear,  every  festering 
grief,  every  corroding  care,  every  shooting  pain,  every  piercing 
remorse  ;  the  sighs  and  moans  of  lazar-houses  reeking  with 
putrefaction  and  death  ;  the  shrieks  and  wails  and  clanking 
chains  in  hospitals  swarming  with  maniacs  ;  and  the  curses  and 
blasphemies  of  dungeons  where  guilt  rots  and  raves  —  these,  all 
these,  are  but  feeble  reverberations  of  those  dismal  truths, 
"Sin  reigns  unto  death."  "Death  hath  passed  upon  all  men, 
for  that  all  have  sinned." 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


That  is  the  bitterest  of  all,  —  to  wear  the  yoke  of  our  own 
wrong-doing. 

—  George  Eliot. 


And  O  when  the  whirlwind  of  passion  is  raging. 
When  sin  in  our  hearts  its  wild  warfare  is  waging. 
Then  send  down  Thy  grace.  Thy  redeemed  to  cherish; 
Rebuke  the  destroyer  ;     "  Save,  Lord,  or  we  perish." 

—  R.  Heber. 


Multitudes  are  lost  by  cherishing  some  secret  sin,  that  is  not 
only  hidden  from  others,  but,  from  want  of  searching  their  own 
hearts,  even  from  themselves. 


The  essence  of  all  wickedness  is  a  forsaking  of  God. 


SIN.  551 

Secret  sins  commonly  lie  nearest  the  heart. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


The  sin  that  now  rises  to  memory  as  your  bosom  sin,  let  this 
first  of  all  be  withstood  and  mastered.  Oppose  it  instantly  by 
a  detestation  of  it,  by  a  firm  will  to  conquer  it,  by  reflection,  by 
reason,  and  by  prayer. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


Though  the  scorpion  be  little,  yet  will  it  sting  a  lion  to  death  ; 
and  so  will  the  least  sin  the  sinner,  unless  pardoned  by  the  blood 
of  Christ. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Every  sin  deserveth  God's  wrath  and  curse,  both  in  this  life 
and  that  which  is  to  come. 

—  Westminster  Catechism. 


Nature  has  no  promise  for  society,  least  of  all,  any  remedy  for 
sin. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


You  cannot  stay  the  shell  in  its  flight ;  after  it  has  left  the 
mortar,  it  goes  on  to  its  mark,  and  there  explodes,  dealing  de- 
struction all  around.  Just  as  little  can  you  stay  the  conse- 
quences of  a  sin  after  it  has  been  committed.  You  may  repent 
of  it,  you  may  even  be  forgiven  for  it,  but  still  it  goes  on  its 
deadly  and  desolating  way.  It  has  passed  entirely  beyond  your 
reach  ;  once  done,  it  cannot  be  undone. 

—  Wm.  M.  Taylor. 


Though   sin  may  be  in  the  Christian,  yet  it  hath  no  more 

dominion  over  him ;  he  hath  an  unfeigned  respect  to  all  God's 

commandments,  making  conscience  even  of  little  sins  and  little 

duties. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


552  SIN. 

Sin  is  to  be  overcome,  not  so  much  by  maintaining  a  direct 
opposition  to  it,  as  by  cultivating  opposite  principles.  Would 
you  kill  the  weeds  in  your  garden,  plant  it  with  good  seed  ;  if 
the  ground  be  well  occupied,  there  will  be  less  need  of  the  labor 
of  the  hoe.  If  a  man  wished  to  quench  fire,  he  might  fight  it 
with  his  hands  till  he  was  burnt  to  death  ;  the  only  way  is  to  ap- 
ply an  opposite  element. 

—  Andrew  Fuller. 


The  deliberate  and  habitual  practice  of  any  form  of  dishon- 
esty or  immorality  is  impossible  to  one  who  follov.'s  Christ. 

—  \V.  Gladden. 


A  believer  is  far  more  apt  to  be  burdened  with  a  sense  of  sin, 
and  to  feel  the  fear  of  it  in  his  own  character  than  an  unbe- 
liever; because  if  we  are  carried  along  the  stream  we  fear  noth- 
ing, and  it  is  only  when  we  strive  against  it,  that  its  progress  and 
power  are  discernible. 

—  John  Owen. 


If,  in  proportion  as  our  minds  are  enlarged,  our  hearts  puri- 
fied, and  our  consciences  cultivated,  our  abhorrence  of  wrong 
and  aversion  to  it  increases,  what  must  be  the  moral  indigna- 
tion of  the  infinite  and  holy  God  against  wrong-doers  .' 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


As  for  our  own  faults,  it  would  take  a  large  slate  to  hold  the 
account  of  them;  but,  thank  God,  we  know  where  to  take  them, 
and  how  to  get  the  better  of  them. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


From  all  blindness  of  heart  ;  from  pride,  vain-glory,  and  hy- 
pocrisy ;  from  envy,  hatred,  and  malice,  and  all  uncharitable- 

ness,  good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


SINCERITY.  553 


Presumption  has  many  forms  ;  and  it  is  worth  considering, 
whether  a  great  and  good  Being  would  most  disapprove  the 
presumption  which  expected  too  much  from  His  goodness,  or  the 
presumption  which  dared  positively  to  disbelieve  His  promise. 

—  William  Arthur. 


When  a  sinner  has  any  just  sense  of  his  condition,  as  alien- 
ated from  a  holy  God,  he  will  not  be  apt  to  think  of  the  unpar- 
donable sin. 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Almighty  and  most  merciful  Father;  we  have  erred  and 
strayed  from  Thy  ways,  like  lost  sheep.  We  have  followed  too 
much  the  devices  and  desires  of  our  own  hearts.  We  have  of- 
fended against  Thy  holy  laws.  We  have  left  undone  those 
things  which  we  ought  to  have  done,  and  we  have  done  those 
things  which  we  ought  not  to  have  done,  and  there  is  no  health 
in  us.  But  Thou,  O  Lord,  have  mercy  upon  us,  miserable  of- 
fenders. Spare  Thou  those,  O  God,  who  confess  their  faults.  Re- 
store Thou  those  who  are  penitent,  according  to  Thy  promises 
declared  unto  mankind  in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord.  And  grant,  O 
most  merciful  Father,  for  His  sake,  that  we  may  hereafter  live 
a  godly,  righteous,  and  sober  life,  to  the  glory  of  Thy  holy  name. 

Amen. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


SINCERITY. 

Sincerity  and  truth  form  the  basis  of  every  virtue. 


Be  what  thou  seemest ;  live  thy  creed  ; 

Hold  up  to  earth  the  torch  divine  ; 
Be  what  thou  prayest  to  be  made  ; 

Let  the  great  Master's  steps  be  thine. 

HORATIUS  BONAR. 


554  SONG. 

Try  how  much  of  the  word  of  God  you  can  understand,  and 
what  is  more,  try  how  much  you  can  practice.  A  sincere  wish 
and  purpose  to  do  the  will  of  God,  will  be  your  best  way  to  know 
the  mind  of  God. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


True  emotions  and  sincere  words  never  perish.  The  great 
heart  of  humanity  gladly  receives  and  embalms  every  true  ut- 
terance of  the  humblest  of  its  offspring. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon, 


The  surest,  as  the  shortest  way,  to  make  yourself  beloved  and 
honored,  is  to  be,  indeed,  the  very  man  you  wish  to  appear. 

—  Socrates. 


Judge  thyself  with  the  judgment  of  sincerity,  and  thou  wilt 
judge  others  with  the  judgment  of  charity. 

—  J.  M.  Mason. 


I  cannot  find  in  Scripture  that  any  one  ever  got  to  heaven 
merely  by  sincerity,  or  was  accepted  with  God  if  he  was  only 
earnest  in  maintaining  his  own  views.  Sincerity  cannot  put 
away  sin. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


Let  every  man  examine  his  own  sincerity,  for  every  man  must 
bear  his  own  burden  —  the  burden  of  his  own  sin  — unless  he 
has  transferred  it  to  the  appointed  Saviour. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


SONG. 


The  best  days  of  the  church   have  always  been  its  singing 
days.  — T.  L.  Cuyler. 

Make  His  praise  glorious. 


SORROW.  555 


If  you  and  I  shall,  like  the  believing  shepherds,  watch  and 
long  for  His  appearing,  one  day  we,  too,  shall  hear  a  music 
grander  and  sweeter  even  than  the  song  of  angels,  when  the 
great  Composer  shall  transpose  all  the  strains  of  earth  from  the 
minor  into  the  major,  when  the  wail  of  nature  shall  give  way 
to  the  glad  harmony  of  the  everlasting  jubilee. 

A.  E.   KiTTREDGE. 


Dear  friends,  have  you  begun  to  sing  the  "  new  song?  "  Loved 
ones  are  singing  it  in  the  heavenly  home,  and  we  may  sing  it 
here;  and  by  and  by  we  shall  join  them,  gaze  with  them  on  the 
risen,  glorified  Lord,  and  our  voices  will  mingle  in  the  "  new 
song  "  "  unto  Him  that  loved  us,  and  washed  us  from  our  sins 
in  His  own  blood,  to  Him  be  glory  and  dominion  for  ever  and 
ever." 

A.   E.   KiTTREDGE. 


SORROW. 

Most  of  the  Beatitudes  which  the  Infinite  Compassion  pro- 
nounced have  the  sorrows  of  earth  for  their  subject,  but  the 
joys  of  earth  for  their  completion. 

—  Hannah  More. 


Sorrow  is  only  one  of  the  lower  notes  in  the  oratorio  of  our 

blessedness. 

—  A.  J.  Gordon. 


How  fast  we  learn  in  the  day  of  sorrow  !  Scripture  shines 
out  in  a  new  effulgence  ;  every  verse  seems  to  contain  a  sun- 
beam, every  promise  stands  out  in  illuminated  splendor  ;  things 
hard  to  be  understood  become  in  a  moment  plain. 

BONAR. 


Marah  is  always  near  the  mercy-seat,  and  right  across  the 
bitter  spring  we  can  join  hands  with  Jesus. 


556  SORROW. 


Has  it  never  occurred  to  us,  when  surrounded  by  sorrows, 
that  they  may  be  sent  to  us  only  for  our  instruction,  as  we 
darken  the  cages  of  birds  when  we  wish  to  teach  them  to  sing? 

—  Jean  Paul  E.ichter. 

When  we  feel  how  God  was  in  our  sorrows,  we  shall  trust 
the  more  blessedly  that  He  will  be  in  our  deaths. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


It  is  not  in  the  bright,  happy  day,  but  only  in  the  solemn 
night,  that  other  worlds  are  to  be  seen  shining  in  their  long, 
long  distances.  And  it  is  in  sorrow  —  the  night  of  the  soul  — 
that  we  see  farthest,  and  know  ourselves  natives  of  infinity, 
and  sons  and  daughters  of  the  Most  High. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


From  the  very  summit  of  his  sorrows,  where  he  had  gone  to 
die,  Moses,  for  the  first  time  in  his  life,  caught  a  view  of  the 
land  of  Canaan.  He  did  not  know,  as  he  went  over  the  rocks, 
torn  and  weary,  how  lovely  the  prospect  was  from  the  top.  In 
this  world,  it  frequently  happens  that  when  man  has  reached 
the  place  of  anguish,  God  rolls  away  the  mist  from  his  eyes, 
and  the  very  spot  selected  as  the  receptacle  of  his  tears,  be- 
comes the  place  of  his  highest  rapture. 

—  J.  T.  Headley. 


There  can  be  no  rainbow  without  a  cloud  and  a  storm. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent. 


Vital  is  the  relation  between  earthly  sorrow  and  eternal  sat- 
isfaction. The  travail  to  which  God's  saints  are  subjected  re- 
sults in  the  birth  of  nobler  natures  and  more  sanctified  spirits. 
Pain  always  piomotes  progress,  and  suffering  invariably  ensures 
success. 

J.   McC.   HOLINIES. 


SORROW.  557 


I  really  believe  if,  instead  of  shutting  ourselves  into  our  sor- 
rows and  keeping  all  the  light  of  heaven  out  of  our  souls,  we 
opened  them  to  receive  Him,  Christ  would  so  come  to  us  that 
the  season  of  our  deepest  grief  and  anguish  would  become  one 
of  the  richest  and  most  precious  of  our  whole  lives. 

—  A.  H.  K. 


Sorrows  humanize  our  race  ; 

Tears  are  the  showers  that  fertilize  this  world. 

—  Jean  Ingelow. 


There  is  a  sacredness  in  tears.  They  are  not  the  mark  of 
weakness,  but  of  power.  They  speak  more  eloquently  than 
ten  thousand  tongues. 

—  W.  Irving. 


Since  Thou  on  earth  hast  wept. 
And  sorrowed  oft  alone, 

If  I  must  weep  with  Thee, 
My  Lord,  Thy  will  be  done  ! 


As  the  Christian's  sorrows  multiply,  his  patience  grows,  until, 
with  sweet,  unruffled  quiet,  he  can  confront  the  ills  of  life,  and, 
though  inwardly  wincing,  can  calmly  pursue  his  way  to  the 
restful  grave,  while  his  old,  harsh  voice  is  softly  cadenced  into 
sweetest  melody,  like  the  faint  notes  of  an  angel's  whispered 
song.     As  patience  deepens,  charity  and  sympathy  increase. 

—  George  C.  Lorimer. 


Earth  may  embitter,  not  remove, 

The  love  divinely  given  ; 
And  e'en  that  mortal  grief  shall  prove 
The  immortality  of  love, 

And  lead  us  nearer  heaven. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


558  SOUL. 

If  man  were  sufficient  for  man,  there  would  be  no  need  for 
religion.  If  there  were  no  evils  from  which  man  could  not 
rescue  his  brother,  there  would  be  no  need  for  a  Saviour  ;  if 
no  sorrows  under  which  man  could  not  sustain  his  fellow  man, 
there  would  be  no  need  of  a  Divine  Comforter.  But  it  is  a 
grief,  a  care  like  yours,  which  makes  religion  a  reality.  Carry 
it  to  the  throne  of  grace,  and  see  if  there  you  do  not  find 
mercy  to  pardon  and  grace  to  help  in  time  of  need. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Not  till  the  everlasting  day  break,  and  the  shadows  flee 
away,  and  the  Lord  Himself  shall  be  our  light,  and  our  God 
our  glory,  can  we  do  without  the  cloud  in  the  sunshine,  the 
shade  of  sorrow  in  the  bright  light  of  joy,  and  the  curtain  of 
night  for  the  deepening  of  the  sleep  which  God  gives  His  be- 
loved. 

—  Hugh  Macmillan. 


SOUL. 

The  human  soul  is  like  a  bird  that  is  born  in  a  cage.  Noth- 
ing can  deprive  it  of  its  natural  longings,  or  obliterate  the  mys- 
terious remembrance  of  its  heritage. 

—  Epes  Sargent. 


The  universe,  vast,  beautiful,  magnificent,  as  it  is,  cannot  con- 
tent the  soul,  but  rouses  it  to  more  majestic  thoughts.  The 
wider  view  it  takes  of  what  is  material,  the  more  impatient  it 
becomes  of  all  material  bonds.  The  sublimer  the  prospects  which 
are  opened  by  the  universe,  the  more  the  spirit  is  impelled  to 
ascend  to  a  still  sublimer  being.  Forever  it  aspires  towards  an 
infinite  and  immutable  One  as  the  ground  of  all  finite  and 
mutable  existences.  It  can  rest  in  His  Omnipotence  alone  as  the 
source,  centre,  sustainer,  determiner  of  all  forces. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


SOUL.  559 


There  is  a  remedy  for  every  wrong  and  a  satisfaction  for 

every  soul. 

—  R.  W.  Emerson. 


The  strongest  love  which  th^  human  heart  has  ever  felt  has 

been  that  for  its  Heavenly  Parent.    Was  it  not  then  constituted 

for  this  love  ? 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


As  the  flowers  follow  the  sun,  and  silently  hold  up  their  petals 
to  be  tinted  and  enlarged  by  its  shining,  so  must  we,  if  we  would 
know  the  joy  of  God,  hold  our  souls,  wills,  hearts,  and  minds, 
still  before  Him,  whose  voice  commands,  whose  love  warns, 
whose  truth  makes  fair  our  whole  being.  God  speaks  for  the 
most  part  in  such  silence  only.  If  the  soul  be  fullof  tumult  and 
jangling  voices.  His  voice  is  little  likely  to  be  heard. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Oh  !  how  seldom  the  soul   is   silent,  in  order  that  God  may 
speak. 

—  Fenelon. 


Christ  bounds  and   terminates   the  vast  desires  of  the  soul ; 
He  is  the  very  Sabbath  of  the  soul. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Every  thing  here,  but  the  soul  of  man,  is  a  passing  shadow. 
The  only  enduring  substance  is  within.  When  shall  we  awake 
to  the  sublime  greatness,  the  perils,  the  accountableness,  and 
the  glorious  destinies  of  the  immortal  soul  ? 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


It  is  only  when  we  see  in  human  souls,  taken  as  germs  of 
power,  a  future  magnitude  and  majesty  transcending  all  present 
measures,  that  we  come  into  any  fit  conception  at  all  of  Christ's 
mission  to  the  world. 


360  SOUL. 

Go  and  try  to  save  a  soul,  and  you  will  see  how  well  it  is 
worth  saving,  how  capable  it  is  of  the  most  complete  salvation. 
Not  by  pondering  about  it,  nor  by  talking  of  it,  but  by  saving  it, 
you  learn  its  preciousness. 

•  —  Phillips  Brooks. 


You  can  throw  yourselves  away.  You  can  become  of  no  use 
in  the  universe  except  for  a  warning.  You  can  lose  your  souls. 
Oh,  what  a  loss  is  that  !  The  perversion  and  degradation  of 
every  high  and  immortal  power  for  an  eternity  !  And  shall  this 
be  true  of  any  one  of  you  ?  Will  you  be  lost  when  One  has 
come  from  heaven,  traveling  in  the  greatness  of  His  strength, 
and  with  garments  dyed  in  blood,  on  purpose  to  guide  you 
home  —  home  to  a  Father's  house  —  to  an  eternal  home  ? 

—  Mark  Hopkins. 


Two  things  a  master  commits  to  his  servant's  care  —  the  child 
and  the  child's  clothes.  It  will  be  a  poor  excuse  for  the  servant 
to  say,  at  his  master's  return,  "  Sir,  here  are  all  the  child's 
clothes,  neat  and  clean,  but  the  child  is  lost."  Much  so  of  the 
account  that  many  will  give  to  God  of  their  souls  aud  bodies  at 
the  great  day.  "  Lord,  here  is  my  body  ;  I  am  very  grateful  for 
it ;  I  neglected  nothing  that  belonged  to  its  contents  and  wel- 
fare ;  but  as  for  my  soul,  that  is  lost  and   cast  away  forever.    I 

took  little  care  and  thought  about  it." 

—  John  Flavel. 


We  all  dread  a  bodily  paralysis,  and  would  make  use  of  every 
contrivance  to  avoid  it;  but  none  of  us  is  troubled  about  a  pa- 
ralysis of  the  soul. 

—  Epictetus. 


The  saddest  of  all  failures  is  that  of  a  soul,  with  its  capabili- 
ties and  possibilities,  failing  of  life  everlasting,  and  entering  upon 
that  night  of  death  upon  which  morning  never  dawns. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


SPEAKING  FOR  CHRIST.  561 

As  ravens  rejoice  over  carrion,  so  infernal  spirits  exult  over 
the  soul  that  is  dead  in  sin. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


SPEAKING  FOR  CHRIST. 

It  may  be  a  very  little  thing  for  you  to  say  to  a  young  man 
the  few  words  that  turn  him  from  the  way  of  ruin,  and  win  him 
back  to  life  and  hope.  It  may  be  a  very  little  thing  to  you  ;  but 
it  is  every  thing  to  the  young  man. 

—  J.  B.  GOUGH. 


A  kind  word  spoken  for  Christ  may  create  a  wider  vibration 
in  eternity  than  the  grandest  sermon  by  the  greatest  preacher. 

C.    GOWAND. 


A  word  spoken  in  season,  at  the  right  moment,  is  the  mother 
of  ages. 

—  T.  Carlyle. 


O  Christians  !  are  you  willing  to  walk  the  streets  of  heaven, 
and  have  no  one  greet  you  there  ?  Would  you  be  willing  to  go 
yourselves  inside  the  gates  and  never  have  a  soul  to  greet  you 
and  say,  "  I  thank  God  for  the  kind  words  of  sympathy  and  love 
you  spoke  on  earth  ?" 

—  Joseph  Cummings. 

To  speak  for  Him  will  be  our  impulse.  No  matter  how  timid, 
nervous,  self-diffident,  we  are  in  ourselves,  as  we  touch  His 
pierced  and  royal  hand,  we  shall  be  instantly  masterful  and 
strong. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


Take  my  lips,  and  let  them  be 
Filled  with  messages  from  Thee. 
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562       SPIRITUALITY— SPIRITUAL  PERCEPTION. 

It  is  a  bad  sign  when  a  new-born  babe  has  not  lungs  enough 
to  make  itself  heard  over  the  whole  house.  It  is  equally  a  bad 
symptom  when  the  new  convert  is  born  dumb,  and  cannot  find 
his  voice  to  praise  God  audibly. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


SPIRITUALITY. 

It  is  for  all  who  are  personally  united  to  Christ  to  cultivate 
a  contemplative  and  sanctified  spirit.  So  far  from  being  secular 
and  sordid,  they  should  be  sacred  and  spiritual,  having  their 
lives  hid  with  Christ  in  God,  and  their  whole  natures  absorbed 
in  the  knowledge  and  love  and  service  of  the  Saviour. 

—  T.  McC.  Holmes. 


As  a  dead  man  cannot  inherit  an  estate,  no  more  can  a  dead 
soul  inherit  heaven.     The  soul  must  be  resurrected  in  Christ. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  contemplation  of  celestial  things  will  make  a  man  both 
speak  and  think  more  sublimely  and  magnificently  when  he  de- 
scends to  human  affairs. 

—  Cicero. 


SPIRITUAL  PERCEPTION. 
There  will  be  and  can  be  no  rest  till  we  admit,  what  cannot 
be  denied,  that  there  is  in  man  a  third  faculty,  which  I  call 
simply  the  faculty  of  apprehending  the  Infinite,  not  only  in  relig- 
ion, but  in  all  things  ;  a  power  independent  of  sense  and  reason, 
a  power  in  a  certain  sense  contradicted  by  sense  and  reason  ; 
but  yet,  I  suppose,  a  very  real  power,  if  we  see  how  it  has  held 
its  own  from  the  beginning  of  the  world  —  how  neither  sense 
nor  reason  has  been  able  to  overcome  it,  while  it  alone  is  able 

to  overcome  both  reason  and  sense. 

—  Max  MtJLLER. 


SPIRITUAL  PROGRESS.  563 

The  fact  is  those  root-truths  on  which  the  foundations  of  our 
being  rest,  are  apprehended  not  logically  at  all, but  mystically. 
This  faculty  of  spiritual  apprehension,  which  is  a  very  different 
one  from  those  which  are  trained  in  schools  and  colleges,  must 
be  educated  and  fed,  not  less,  but  more  carefully  than  our  lower 
faculties,  else  it  will  be  starved  and  die,  however  learned  and 
able  in  other  respects  we  may  become. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


He  who  never  looks  up  to  a  living  God,  to  a  heavenly  pres- 
ence, loses  the  power  of  perceiving  that  presence,  and  the  uni- 
verse slowly  turns  into  a  dead  machine,  clashing  and  grinding 
on,  without  purpose  or  end.  If  the  light  within  us  be  darkness, 
how  great  is  that  darkness  ! 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


The  golden  moments  in  the  stream  of  life  rush  past  us,  and 
we  see  nothing  but  sand  ;  the  angels  come  to  visit  us,  and  we 
only  know  them  when  they  are  gone, 

—  George  Eliot. 


SPIRITUAL  PROGRESS. 

He  only  is  advancing  in  life  whose  heart  is  getting  softer, 
whose  blood  warmer,  whose  brain  quicker,  whose  spirit  is  en- 
tering into  living  peace.  And  the  men  who  have  this  life  in 
them  are  the  true  lords  or  kings  of  the  earth  —  they,  and  they 
only. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


It  is  not  with  a  rush  and  a  spring  that  we  are  to  reach 
Christ's  character,  and  attain  to  perfect  saintship  ;  but  step  by 
step,  foot  by  foot,  hand  over  hand,  we  are  slowly  and  often 
painfully  to  mount  the  ladder  that  rests  on  earth,  and  rises  to 
heaven, 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


564  SPIRITUAL  PROGRESS. 

What  is  it  to  make  progress  in  religion  ?  Progress  is  not 
only  action  but  moving  onward.  A  door  turning  upon  its 
hinges  is  in  a  state  of  motion,  but  it  never  advances.  A  char- 
iot moving  upon  wheels  is 'not  only  in  motion,  but  goes  on- 
ward. The  conduct  of  some  persons  in  religion  resembles  the 
former  —  there  is  action,  but  no  advancement ;  they  move^ 
but  it  is  on  hinges,  not  on  wheels. 

—  John  Angel  James. 

Heaven  is  not  gained  by  a  single  bound, 
But  we  build  the  ladder  by  which  we  rise 
From  the  lowly  earth  to  the  vaulted  skies; 
And  we  mount  to  its  summit  round  by  round.  . 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


You  are  born  supernaturally  through  faith,  by  the  grace  of 
God,  into  the  kingdom  of  righteousness  ;  but  you  are  born  a 
little  babe,  that  is  all  ;  and  if  you  make  any  progress  from  that 
point  on,  it  must  be  by  work,  by  sacrifice,  by  the  practice  of 
Christian  virtues,  by  benevolence,  by  self-denial,  by  resisting 
the  adversary,  by  making  valiant  war  for  God  and  against  sin; 
and  on  no  other  basis,  am  I  authorized  in  giving  you  a  hope 
that  you  may  come  to  manhood  in  Christ  Jesus. 

—  C.  H.  Fowler. 


Voices  of  the  glorified  urge  us  onward.  They  who  have 
passed  from  the  semblances  of  time  to  the  realities  of  eternity 
call  upon  us  to  advance.  The  rest  that  awaits  us  invites  us 
forward.  We  do  not  pine  for  our  rest  before  God  wills  it.  We 
long  for  no  inglorious  rest.  We  are  thankful  rather  for  the 
invaluable  training  of  difficulty,  the  loving  discipline  of  dan- 
ger and  strife.  Yet  in  the  midst  of  it  all  the  prospect  of  rest 
invites  us  heavenward.     Through  all,  and  above  all,  God  cries, 

"  Go  forward!"     "  Come  up  higher!" 

—  Sir  William  Jones. 


SPIRITUAL  PROGRESS.  565 

There  is  perhaps  no  truer  sign  that  a  man  is  really  advanc- 
ing than  that  lie  is  learning  to  forget  himself,  that  he  is  losing 
the  natural  thoughts  about  self  in  the  thought  of  One  higher 
than  himself,  to  whose  guidance  he  can  commit  himself  and  all 

men. 

—  J.  C.  Shairp. 


Almighty  God,  who  through  Thine  only  begotten  Son  Jesus 
Christ  hast  overcome  death,  and  opened  unto  us  the  gate  of 
everlasting  life  ;  we  humbly  beseech  Thee,  that  as  by  Thy 
special  grace  preventing  us.  Thou  dost  put  into  our  minds 
good  desires,  so  by  Thy  continual  help  we  may  bring  the  same 
to  good  effect ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

—  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


Progress,  in  the  sense  of  acquisition,  is  something;  but  prog- 
ress in  the  sense  of  being,  is  a  great  deal  more.  To  grow 
higher,  deeper,  wider,  as  the  years  go  on ;  to  conquer  difficul- 
ties, and  acquire  more  and  more  power  ;  to  feel  all  one's  facul- 
ties unfolding,  and  truth  descending  into  the  soul,  —  this  makes 

life  worth  living. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


To  bear  adversity  with  meek  submission  to  the  will  of  God  ; 
to  endure  chastisement  with  all  long-suffering  and  joyfulness  ; 
to  appear  cheerful  amid  surrounding  gloom,  hopeful  amidst  de- 
sponding circumstances,  happy  in  God  when  there  is  nothing 
else  to  make  us  happy ;  he  who  does  this  has  indeed  made 
great  advances  in  the  divine  life. 

—  John  Angel  James. 


O  how  deceived  we  are,  when  we  suppose  we  are  advancing, 
because  our  vain  curiosity  is  gratified  by  the  enlightenment  of 
our  intellect !  Be  humble,  and  expect  not  the  gifts  of  God  from 
man  ! 


566  SPIRITUAL  PROGRESS. 


The  modern  Christian  does  not  retire  into  a  cell  to  pray,  but 
goes  about  doing  good.  He  thus  avoids  the  risk  of  narrowness, 
which  attends  the  man  who  desires  only  to  do  the  "  nearest 
duty."  But  there  is  a  danger  here  also, —  that  of  shallowness. 
The  man  who  is  always  giving,  never  receiving ;  always  helping 
others,  and  never  feeding  his  own  soul,  is  in  danger  of  becom- 
ing empty. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


The  life  of  a  godly  man  is  like  a  river,  not  like  a  stagnant  pool 
or  a  dead  sea.  It  is  ever  in  motion,  sometimes  sparkling  in  the 
sunbeam,  and  sometimes  shivering  in  the  clouds ;  sometimes 
chanting  through  scenery  as  beautiful  as  Eden,  and  sometimes 
moaning  through  districts  of  miserable  desolation  ;  sometimes 
clear  as  the  day,  and  sometimes  black  as  the  night.  Still  it  is 
ever  moving  to  its  ocean  destiny  —  progress  is  its  law,  infinitude 

is  its  home. 

—  David  Thomas. 

As  the  reflections  of  our  pride  upon   our  defects  are  bitter, 

disheartening,  and  vexatious,  so  the  return  of  the  soul  towards 

God  is  peaceful  and  sustained  by  confidence.    You  will  find  by 

experience  how  much  more  your  progress  will  be  aided  by  this 

simple,  peaceful  turning  towards  God,  than  by  all  your  chagrin 

and  spite  at  the  faults  that  exist  in  you. 

—  Fenelon. 


A  man  is  a  fool  who  sits  looking  backward  from  himself  in  the 
past.  Ah  !  what  shallow,  vain  conceit  there  is  in  man  !  Forget 
the  things  that  are  behind.  That  is  not  where  you  live.  Your 
roots  are  not  there.  They  are  in  the  present  ;  and  you  should 
reach  up  into  the  other  life. 

H.  W.   BEECHEFi. 


If  a  man  is  not  rising  upward  to  be  an  angel,  depend  upon  it, 
he  is  sinking  downward  to  be  a  devil. 


SUCCESS -SUFFERING.  567 


SUCCESS. 
While  the  man  before  had  climbed,  on  sharp,  flinty  preci- 
pices, slippery,  abysmal  ;  in  darkness,  seen  by  no  kindred  eye, 
—  amid  the  brood  of  dragons  ;  and  his  heart  many  times  was 
like  to  fail  within  him,  in  his  loneliness,  in  his  extreme  need ; 
yet  he  climbed  and  climbed,  gluing  his  footsteps  in  his  blood  ; 
and  now  behold,  Hyperion-like,  he  has  scaled  the  height,  and  on 
the  summit  shakes  his  glittering  shafts  of  war !  What  a  scene 
and  new  kingdom  for  him;  all  bathed  in  auroral  radiance  of 
Hope;  far-stretching,  solemn,  joyful;  what  wild  Memnon's 
music,  from  the  depths  of  nature  comes  toning  through  the  soul 
raised  suddenly  out  of  strangling  death  into  victory  and  life ! 


Success  is  full  of  promise  till  men  get  it ;  and  then  it  is  last 

year's  nest  from  which  the  bird  has  flown. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


SUFFERING. 

There  is  seldom  a  line  of  glory  written  upon  the  earth's  face, 
but  a  line  of  suffering  runs  parallel  with  it ;  and  they  that  read 
the  lustrous  syllables  of  the  one,  and  stoop  not  to  decipher  the 
spotted  and  worn  inscription  of  the  other,  get  the  least  half  of 

the  lesson  earth  has  to  give. 

—  F.  W.  Faber. 


Out  of  suffering  have  emerged  the  strongest  souls ;  the  most 
massive  characters  are  seamed  with  scars  ;  martyrs  have  put 
on  their  coronation  robes  glittering  with  fire  ;  and  through 
their  tears  have  the  sorrowful  first  seen  the  gate  of  heaven. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


No  flower  can  bloom  in  paradise  which  is  not  transplanted 
from  Gethsemane. 


568  SUFFERING. 


The  cross  of  Christ  is  the  pledge  to  us  that  the  deepest  suf- 
fering may  be  the  condition  of  the  highest  blessing  ;  the  sign, 
not  of  God's  displeasure,  but  of  His  widest  and  most  compas- 
sionate face. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Not  till  I  was  shut  up  to  prayer  and  to  the  study  of  God's 
word  by  the  loss  of  earthly  joys  —  sickness  destroying  the  flavor 
of  them  all  —  did  I  begin  to  penetrate  the  mystery  that  is 
learned  under  the  cross.  And  wondrous  as  it  is,  how  simple 
is  this  mystery  !  To  love  Christ,  and  to  know  that  I  love 
Him  —  this  is  all. 

—  E.  Prentiss. 


Suffering  is  my  gain  ;  I  bow 

To  my  Heavenly  Father's  will, 

And  receive  it  hushed  and  still  ; 
Suffering  is  my  worship  now. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


Our  merciful  Father  has  no  pleasure  in  the  sufferings  of  His 

children  ;  He  chastens  them  in  love  ;  He  never  inflicts  a  stroke 

He  could  safely  spare  ;  He  inflicts  it  to  purify  as  well  as  to 

punish,  to  caution  as  well  as  to  cure,  to  improve   as  well  as  to 

chastise. 

—  Hannah  More. 


Some  of  His  children  must  go  into    the  furnace  to  testify 
that  the  Son  of  God  is  there  with  them. 

—  E.  Prentiss. 


He  hears  thy  faintly  sobbing  breath, 
He  marks  each  quivering  limb  ; 

He  drank  a  cup  for  thee  alone  — 
Child  !   drink  it  now  with  Him. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL.  5G9 

Toil  on,  O  weary,  way-worn  sufferer !  bear  up,  O  crushed 
and  sorrowing  heart  !  thy  bed  of  pain,  thy  silent  heroism,  thy 
patient  Christian  walk,  thy  resignation,  and  thy  grief,  glow  all 
unconsciously  to  thee  with  winning  radiance,  and  fill  the  world 
with  life's  sweetest  fragrance  —  as  bruised  flowers  with  perfume 
do  the  air. 

—  Alexander  Dickson. 


He  knows  the  bitter,  weary  way. 
The  endless  striving  day  by  day, 
The  souls  that  weep,  the  souls  that  pray 
He  knows ! 

He  knows  !   Oh  thought  so  full  of  bliss ! 
For  though  on  earth  our  joy  we  miss. 
We  still  can  bear  it,  feeling  this,  — 
He  knows ! 

He  knows ;   O  heart  take  up  thy  cross, 
And  know  earth's  treasures  are  but  dross. 
And  He  will  prove  as  gain  our  loss  ! 
He  knows. 

—  Marian  Longfellow. 


In  the  highest  class  of  God's  school  of  suffering  we  learn 
not  resignation  nor  patience,  but  rejoicing  in  tribulation. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
We  the  Sunday-school  workers,  what  are  we  but  the  church 
at  work  ?  The  Sunday-school  is  the  church  in  futuro.  Our 
recruits  come  almost  wholly  from  the  training  classes  of  the 
Sunday-school.  The  Bible,  the  open  Bible,  the  studied  Bible, 
the  Bible  in  the  heart  is  the  only  hope  of  our  land  to-day. 

—  H.  M.  Parsons. 


570  SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 


The  hope  of  the  nation  and  of  Christendom,  and  of  the 
lands  called  heathen,  alike  is  to  be  found  in  the  indoctrination 
of  little  children  in  the  knowledge  of  God's  truth  ;  for  the 
missionaries  will  tell  you  that  the  adult  heathen  population  of 
to-day  are  to  die  heathen  ;  the  minister  will  tell  you  that  the 
adult,  virtually  heathen  population  of  Christian  lands  to-day 
are  to  die  in  that  condition,  unless  .God  showers  down  alto- 
gether unprecedented  grace  —  with  only  such  occasional  excep- 
tions as  confirm  this  general  and  terrible  law.  If  this  be  so, 
the  hope  of  Christianity  is  in  childhood.  Towards  childhood 
must  be  directed  the  work  of  the  sappers  and  miners  of  the 
church.  Here  is  the  weak  point  of  the  enemy's  fortress.  Here 
let  the  breach  be  made,  and  his  topmost  turret  shall  be  laid 
low.  —  C.  D.  Foss. 


Let  the  Sunday-school  for  the  children  teach  Christ  first, 
Christ  last,  Christ  in  the  middle,  Christ  all  the  time.  And  the 
school  that  shall  be  so  single-eyed  for  the  Master,  shall  have  the 
full  beam  of  His  eyes  which  smile  as  the  sun  shining  in  its 
strength  ever  upon  them. 

—  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  ]r. 


One  of  the  brighest  and  most  touching  pictures  in  the  whole 
gospel  narratives  is  that  of  Jesus  taking  the  little  children  up 
and  folding  His  arms  about  them,  putting  His  hands  upon  them 
and  blessing  them.  This  is  the  warrant  and  the  best  inspiration 
of  Sunday-school  work,  and  this  suggests  the  secret  of  success. 
We  must  take  up  the  children,  and  fold  them  in  our  arms,  in  an 
embrace  of  tenderness  and  Christly  love,  then  we  shall  win  them 
to  Christ  and  heaven. 


The  conditions  of  success  in  teaching  are  these  :  First,  devo- 
tion to  Christ  ;  second,  love  for  souls  ;  third,  earnest  work  ; 
fourth,  concentration  ;  fifth,  importunate  prayer  ;  sixth,  fitness  ; 
seventh,  the  Holy  Spirit's  influences. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL.  571 

It  is  a  grand  thing  to  train  the  human  mind  in  the  academy 
and  in  the  college  and  university  to  great  intellectual  achieve- 
ments. It  is  a  grand  thing  for  you  to  leap,  as  it  were,  by  the 
lightning  of  your  thought,  from  crag  to  crag  of  discovery.  It 
is  well  to  make  paths  for  tender  feet  through  the  morasses  and 
over  the  mountains  of  study.  These  bring  honor  and  jjower. 
But  it  is  also  well  to  remember  that  the  diplomas  of  colleges 
and  universities  can  never  bring  pardon  for  sin  ;  that  all  the 
scholarships  and  all  the  titles  in  the  world  can  never  bring  peace 
to  the  dying.  Oh,  brethren,  it  is  this  discipleship  with  the  Man 
of  Galilee  who  trod  the  wine-press  alone,  and  carried  His  cross 
up  Calvary's  hill  ;  this  discipleship  with  the  man  Christ  Jesus, 
that  constitutes  the  moral  and  spiritual  power  in  our  work. 
That  power  it  is  yours  to  impart  to  the  children  under  your 
care.     Aye,  this  is  grander  than  all  human  achievements. 

—  J.  Clement  French. 


Bring  the  little  ones  to  Christ.  Lord  Jesus,  we  bring  them 
to-day,  the  children  of  our  Sunday-schools,  of  our  churches,  of 
the  streets.  Here  they  are  ;  they  wait  Thy  benediction.  The 
prayer  of  Jacob  for  his  sons  shall  be  my  prayer  while  I  live,  and 
when  I  die:  "The  angel  which  redeemed  me  from  all  evil,  bless 
the  lads." 

—  T.  DeWitt  Talmage. 


Begin  in  prayer ;  continue  in  prayer  ;  end  in  prayer.  All  the 
help  that  we  have  in  the  conversion  of  the  children  comes  from 
God.  We  cannot  convert  their  souls,  but  God  can  by  the  influ- 
ence of  His  Spirit.  When  we  study  our  lessons,  let  us  go  first 
for  illumination  to  God,  that  we  may  so  impress  it  on  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  those  we  are  teaching,  that  they  may  bring  forth 
fruit  for  salvation  ;  that  they  may  see  our  earnestness  —  see  that 
our  desire  is  for  their  conversion.  Let  us  pray  individually  for 
each  one  of  our  scholars. 

—  A.  O.  Van  Lennep. 


572  SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 

Learn  to  teach  the  children  to  look  at  this  world  as  a  beau- 
tiful symbol  of  Jesus  ;  every  thing,  Jesus  ;  Christ,  all ;  Christ, 
in  all.  So  shall  you  educate  the  imaginations  of  the  children  to 
receive,  and  their  memories  to  retain  and  to  use,  that  Christian 
truth  ;  and  you  yourself  shall  be  lifted  up,  as  on  angel's  wings, 
to  see  with   John  things  which  are  unspeakable,  but  which  the 

sanctified  imagination  realizes. 

— -Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr. 


Oh,  be  assured,  fellow  teachers,  that  there  is  no  time  in  life  so 
favorable  to  sound  conversion  as  early  childhood. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


To  live  a  godly  life  is  the  best  way  to  light  up  a  lesson  that 
the  teacher  can  possibly  employ. 

—  T.   H.  Vincent. 


Let  us  see  to  it  that  in  our  schools,  as  far  as  possible,  every 
week,  some  lessons  from  Scripture,  in  the  language  oi  the  Scrip- 
ture are  learned. 

—  Wayland  Hoyt. 


The  teacher  should  use  illustrations  for  the  better  teaching  of 

the  lesson,  and   never  to  fill  up  time,  to  amuse  the  class,  or  to 

display  his  own  genius. 

—  J.  H.  Vincent. 


It  is  quite  likely  that  the  modern  contrivances  for  making 
Sunday-schools  amusing  have  given  them  a  distaste  for  the  more 
solemn  services  of  the  sanctuary.  If  so,  the  amusement  is  a 
sin.  The  schools  should  feed  the  church.  Children  ought  to 
be  led  by  one  into  the  other,  exposed  to  the  preaching  of  the 
gospel,  taught  the  ways  of  God's  house,  and  brought  up  under 
its  influence,  with  all  its  hallowed  and  elevating  influences. 

—  S.  Iren^us  Prime. 


SUPERSTITION  — SYMPATHY.  573 

The  more  you  study  the  lessons  as  the  word  of  God  speaking 
to  you  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  the  more  you  come  to  be- 
lieve in  direct  answers  to  prayer,  the  more  efficacious  will  be 
your  teaching  by  word  and  example  upon  the  hearts  and  lives 

of  others. 

—  Henry  M.  Parsons. 


The  primary  principle  of  education  is  the  determination  of 
the  pupil  to  self-activity  —  the  doing  nothing  for  him  which  he 
is  able  to  do  for  himself. 

—  Sir  William  Hamilton. 


Be  assured,  my  dear  Anne,  that  it  is  only  by  taking  our  lesson 

from  God  and  doing  the  will  of  God,  that  we  can  either  please 

Him  in  time,  or  be  happy  with  Him  in  eternity. 

—  Chalmers. 


SUPERSTITION. 

Superstition  is  a  senseless  fear  of  God  ;  religion,  the  pious 
worship  of  God. 


The  greatest  burden  in  the  world  is  superstition,  not  only  of 

ceremonies  in  the  church,  but  of  imaginary  and  scarecrow  sins 

at  home. 

—  Milton. 


Superstition  is  but  the  fear  of  belief — religion  is  the  confi- 
dence. 


SYMPATHY. 

The  capacity  of  sorrow  belongs  to  our  grandeur,  and  the 
loftiest  of  our  race  are  those  who  have  had  the  profoundest  sym- 
pathies, because  they  have  had  the  profoundest  sorrows. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


574  SYiMPATHY. 


Lord,  from  success,  its  noise  and  glare, 

And  often  shallow  life, 
Guide  me  to  where  Thy  soldiers  lie. 

Faint,  wounded  in  the  strife  ;  . 
Give  me  a  brother's  heart,  I  pray. 

To  watch  and  help  the  weak  to-day. 


We  often  do  more  good  by  our  sympathy  than  by  our  labors. 

A  man  may  lose  position,  influence,  wealth,  and  even  health,  and 

yet   live  on  in  comfort,  if   with   resignation  ;  but  there   is  one 

thing  without  which   life  becomes  a  burden  —  that   is  human 

sympathy. 

—  Canon  Farrar. 


Certain  it  is,  that  as  nothing  can  better  do  it ;  so  there  is 
nothing  greater,  for  which  God  made  our  tongues,  next  to  re- 
citing His  praises,  than  to  minister  comfort  to  a  weary  soul. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


There  is  poetry  and  there  is  beauty  in  real  sympathy  ;  but 
there  is  more  —  there  is  action.  The  noblest  and  most  power- 
ful form  of  sympathy  is  not  merely  the  responsive  tear,  the 
echoed  sigh,  the  answering  look ;  it  is  the  embodiment  of  the 
sentiment  in  actual  help. 

—  OCTAVIUS  WiNSLOW. 

Therefore,  if  you  aspire  to  be  a  son  of  consolation, —  if  you 
would  partake  of  the  priestly  gift  of  sympathy  —  if  you  would 
pour  something  beyond  common-place  consolation  into  a 
tempted  heart  —  if  you  would  pass  through  the  daily  inter- 
course of  daily 'life  with  the  delicate  tact  which  never  inflicts 
pain  —  if,  to  that  most  acute  of  human  ailments,  mental  doubt, 
you  are  ever  to  give  effectual  succor,  you  must  be  content  to 
pay  the  price  of  the  costly  education.  Like  Him,  you  must 
suffer  —  being  tempted. 


TALENTS.  575 


I  ask  Thee  for  a  thankful  love, 

Through  constant  watching  wise, 
To  meet  the  glad  with  joyful  smiles, 

And  to  wipe  the  weeping  eyes, 
And  a  heart  at  leisure  from  itself^ 

To  soothe  and  sympathize. 

—  Anna  L.  Waring. 


TALENTS. 

The  way  to  attain  to  larger  gifts  is  to  employ  the  gifts  you 
have.  Give  Jesus  the  one  talent,  and  then  He  may  trust  you 
with  two.  If  you  cannot  speak  glibly  in  a  prayer-meeting,  then 
stammer  out  your  heart's  thanks  in  the  best  fashion  you  can. 
It  may  be  that  your  few  broken  words  may  accomplish  more 
than  another  man's  fluent  harangues.  —  T.  L.  Cuyler. 


Men  of  splendid  talents  are  generally  too  quick,  too  volatile, 
too  adventurous,  and  too  unstable  to  be  much  relied  on  ;  whereas 
men  of  common  abilities,  in  a  regular,  plodding  routine  of  busi- 
ness, act  with  more  regularity  and  greater  certainty.  Men  of 
the  best  intellectual  abilities  are  apt  to  strike  off  suddenly,  like 
the  tangent  of  a  circle,  and  cannot  be  brought  into  their  orbits 
by  attraction  or  gravity  —  they  often  act  with  such  eccentricity 
as  to  be  lost  in  the  vortex  of  their  own  reveries.  Brilliant  talents 
in  general  are  like  the  ignes  fatui;  they  excite  wonder,  but 
often  mislead.  They  are  not,  however,  without  their  use ;  like 
the  fire  from  the  flint,  once  produced,  it  may  be  converted,  by 
solid,  thinking  men,  to  very  salutary  and  noble  purposes. 

—  Trusler, 


No  man  can  live  out  a  life  of  sin  without  also  living  out  all 
the  Godward  talent  of  his  soul. 


576  TEMPERANCE  — TEMPTATION. 

The  man  that  wrapped  up  his  talent  in  the  napkin  and  said, 
"  Lo,  there  thou  hast  that  is  thine,"  was  too  sanguine.  There  was 
never  an  unused  talent  rolled  up  in  a  handkerchief  yet,  but 
when  it  was  taken  out  and  put  into  the  scales,  it  was  lighter 
than  when  it  was  committed  to  the  keeping  of  the  earth. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


"Take  therefore  the  talent  from  him."  It  is  being  taken 
away  rapidly,  and  the  shreds  of  it  will  very  soon  be  all  that  is 
left.  Your  religious  nature  will  finally  become  a  virtually  ex- 
terminated organ.  The  purpose  you  have  at  some  future  time 
to  use  your  talent  avails  nothing.  It  is  going  from  you,  and, 
before  you  know  it,  will  be  utterly,  irrevocably  gone.  My 
friends,  there  is  not  an  hour  to  lose.  Only  with  the  greatest 
difficulty  will  you  be  able,  now,  to  gather  up  yourself  and  open 
your  closing  gates  to  the  entrance  of  God  and  His  salvation. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


TEMPERANCE. 

Temperance    is    reason's    girdle    and    passion's    bridle,    the 
strength  of  the  soul,  and  the  foundation  of  virtue. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


The  whole  duty  of  man  is  embraced  in  the  two  principles  of 
abstinence  and  patience  :  temperance  in  prosperity,  and  cour- 
age in  adversity.  — Seneca, 


Drinking  water  neither  makes  a  man  sick,  nor  in  debt,  nor 
his  wife  a  widow.  —  John  Neal. 


TEMPTATION. 

God  is  better  served  in  resisting  a  temptation  to  evil  than  in 
many  formal  prayers. 


TEMPTATION.  577 


On  this  earth  all  is  temptation.  Crosses  tempt  us  by  irrita- 
ting our  pride,  and  prosperity  by  flattering  it.  Our  life  is  a 
continual  combat,  but  one  in  which  Jesus  Christ  fights  for  us. 
We  must  pass  on  unmoved,  while  temptations  rage  around  us, 
as  the  traveler,  overtaken  by  a  storm,  simply  wraps  his  cloak 
more  closely  about  him,  and  pushes  on  more  vigorously  toward 
his  destined  home. 

—  Fenelon. 


The   realization  of   God's    presence    is    the    one    sovereign 
remedy  against  temptation.  —  Fenelon. 


In  the  hour  of  my  distress, 
When  temptations  me  oppress, 
And  when  I  my  sins  confess, 
Sweet  Spirit,  comfort  me. 

—  Robert  Herrick. 


Temptations,  when  we  meet  them  at  first,  are  as  the  lion  that 
roared  upon  Samson  ;  but  if  we  overcome  them,  the  next  time 
we  see  them  we  shall  find  a  nest  of  honey  within  them. 

—  John  Bunyan. 


We  often  wonder  that  certain  men  and  women  are  left  by 
God  to  the  commission  of  sins  that  shock  us.  We  wonder  how, 
under  the  temptation  of  a  single  hour,  they  fall  from  the  very 
heights  of  virtue  and  of  honor  into  sin  and  shame.  The  fact 
is  that  there  are  no  such  falls  as  these,  or  there  are  next  to 
none.  These  men  and  women  are  those  who  have  dallied  with 
temptation  —  have  exposed  themselves  to  the  influence  of  it, 
and  have  been  weakened  and  corrupted  by  it. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


We  are  to   keep   ourselves  from  opportunities,  and  God  will 
keep  us  from  sin. 
Z7 


578  TENDERNESS. 


Christian  !  thou  knowest  thou  earnest  gunpowder  about  thee. 
Desire  them  that  carry  fire  to  keep  at  a  distance.  It  is  a  dan- 
gerous crisis,  when  a  proud  heart  meets  with  flattering  hps. 

—  John  Flavel. 


The  devil  tempts  us  not  ;   'tis  we  temjDt  him, 
Beckoning  his  skill  with  opportunity. 

—  George  Eliot. 


Occasions  of  adversity  best  discover  how  great  virtue  or 
strength  each  one  hath.  For  occasions  do  not  make  a  man 
frail,  but  they  show  what  he  is. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


When  tempted,  the  shortest  and  surest  way  is  to  act  like  a 
little  child  at  the  breast  ;  when  we  show  it  a  frightful  monster, 
it  shrinks  back  and  buries  its  face  in  its  mother's  bosom,  that 
it  may  no  longer  behold  it. 

—  Fenelon. 


TENDERNESS. 

There  never  was  any  heart  truly  great  and  generous  that  was 
not  also  tender  and  compassionate. 

—  South. 


When  death,  the   great  Reconciler,  has  come,  it  is  never  our 
tenderness  that  we  repent  of,  but  our  severity. 

—  George  Eliot. 


While  we  would  have  our  young  sisters  imitate,  as  they  can- 
not fail  to  love,  the  conduct  of  Ruth,  will  not  their  elders  do 
well  to  ponder  on,  and  imitate  the  tenderness  of  Naomi  ? 
Would  we  have  our  daughters  Ruths,  we  must  be  Naomis. 

—  Grace  Aguilar. 


THANKFULNESS  — THEOLOGY.  579 

Speak  the  truth,  by  all  means  !  Speak  it  so  that  no  man  can 
mistake  the  utterance.  Be  bold  and  fearless  in  your  rebuke  of 
error,  and  in  your  keener  rebuke  of  wrong-doing  ;  all  Christ's 
witnesses  are  bound  to  be  thus  "valiant  for  the  truth  ;  "  but  be 
human  and  loving  and  gentle  and  brotherly  the  while.  If  you 
must  deliver  the  Redeemer's  testimony,  deliver  it  with  the  Re- 
deemer's tears.  Look,  straight-eyed  and  kindly,  upon  the 
vilest,  as  a  man  ought  to  look  upon  a  man,  both  royal,  although 
the  one  is  wearing,  and  the  other  has  pawned  his  crown. 

—  Wm.  M.  Punshox. 


I  was  never  fit  to  say  a  word  to  a  sinner,  except  when  I  had 
a  broken  heart  myself. 

—  Edward  Payson. 


THANKFULNESS. 

Many  favors  which  God  giveth  us  ravel  out  for  want  of  hem- 
ming, through  our  own  unthankfulness  ;  for  though  prayer 
purchaseth  blessings,  giving  praise  doth  keep  the  quiet  posses- 
sion of  them. 

—  Thomas  Fuller. 


God  has  two  dwellings  —  one   in   heaven,  and  the  other  in  a 
meek  and  thankful  heart. 

—  Isaac  Walton. 


THEOLOGY. 

Of  all  qualities  which  a  theologian  must  possess,  a  devotional 
spirit  is  the  chief.  For  the  soul  is  larger  than  the  mind,  and 
the  religious  emotions  lay  hold  on  the  truths  to  which  they  are 
related  on  many  sides  at  once.  A  powerful  understanding,  on 
the  other  hand,  seizes  on  single  points,  and  however  enlarged 
in  its  own  sphere,  is  never  safe  from  its  narrowness  of  view. 


580  THEOLOGY. 


We  can  no  more  have  exact  religious  thinking  without  theol- 
ogy, than  exact  mensuration  and  astronomy  without  mathemat- 
ics, or  exact  iron-making  without  chemistry. 

—  John  Hall. 


The  theological  systems  of  men  and  schools  of  men  are  de- 
termined always  by  the  character  of  their  ideal  of  Christ,  the 
central  fact  of  the  Christian  system. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


Comparative  theology  testifies  that  Jesus  Christ,  who  is  not 
less  truly  the  incarnation  of  the  Christian's  theology  than  of 
the  Christian's  God,  is  indeed  the  desire  of  the  nations,  but 
not  their  product,  their  invention,  or  their  discovery. 

—  George  D.  B.  Pepper. 


All  my  theology  is  reduced  to  this  narrow  compass  —  "  Jesus 
Christ  came  into  the  world  to  save  sinners." 

—  Archibald  Alexander. 


A  man  must  have  a  stout  digestion  to  feed  upon  some  men's 
theology  ;  no  sap,  no  sweetness,  no  life,  but  all  stern  accuracy, 
and  fleshless  definition.  Proclaimed  without  tenderness,  and 
argued  without  affection,  the  gospel  from  such  men  rather  re- 
sembles a  missile  from  a  catapult   than   bread   from  a  Father's 

hand. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Brethren,  what  makes  a  Christian  is  not  the  theology  you 
have  in  your  heads,  but  the  faith  and  love  you  have  in  your 
hearts.  We  must,  indeed,  have  a  clear  statement  of  truth  in 
orderly  propositions,  —  that  is,  a  system  of  dogmas, —  to  have 
any  thing  to  trust  to  at  all.  There  can  be  no  saving  faith  in 
an  unseen  Person,  except  through  the  medium  of  thoughts  con- 
cerning Him,  which  thoughts  put  into  words  are  a  creed. 


THOUGHT.  581 


THOUGHT. 

If  you  are  not  a  thinking  man,  to  what  purpose  are  you  a 

man  at  all  ? 

—  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


Every  man  has  some  peculiar  train  of  thought  which  he  falls 

back  upon  when  he  is  alone.     This,  to  a  great  degree,  moulds 

the  man. 

—  DuGALD  Stewart. 


Thinking  leads  me  to  knowledge.  He  may  see  and  hear, 
and  read  and  learn,  and  as  much  as  he  pleases  ;  he  will  never 
know  any  of  it,  except  that  which  he  has  thought  over,  that 
which  by  thinking  he  has  made  the  property  of  his  mind.  Is 
it  then  saying  too  much  if  I  say,  that  man  by  thinking  only  be- 
comes truly  a  man  ?  Take  away  thought  from  man's  life,  and 
what  remains  ? 


Good  thoughts  are  true  wealth  ;  they  are  fountains  of  living 
water ;  they  are  gems  that  always  shine  ;  they  are  impenetrable 
shields  to  protect  the  character  ;  they  are  goodly  apparel  for 
the  mind  ;  they  are  right  noble  companions  ;  they  are  fair 
angels  of  light  ;  they  are  flowers  of  rich  beauty  and  sweet  fra- 
grance ;  they  are  seeds  of  noble  actions  and  noble  institutions ; 
they  are  moulds  in  which  exalted  characters  are  formed  ;  they 
make  good  and  great  men  ;  they  are  a  nation's  mightiest  bul- 
warks. A  good  thought  is  a  grand  legacy  to  bequeath  to  the 
world. 


They  are   never  alone    that    are    accompanied  with    noble 
thoughts.  —  Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


An  arrow  may  fly  through  the  air,  and  leave  no  trace ;  but  an 
ill  thought  leaves  a  trail  like  a  serpent. 


582  TIME. 

Every  thought  willingly  contemplated,  ever  word  meaningly 
spoken,  every  action  freely  done,  consolidates  itself  in  the  char- 
acter, and  will  project  itself  onward  in  a  permanent  continuity. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


We  cannot  keep  thieves  from  looking  in  at  our  windows,  but 
we  need  not  give  them  entertainment  with  open  doors. 

—  Thomas  Adams. 


Be  not  troubled  by  the  wanderings  of  your  imagination  which 
you  cannot  restrain.  How  often  do  we  wander  through  the 
fear  of  wandering  and  the  regret  that  we  have  done  so.  What 
would  you  say  of  a  traveler  who,  instead  of  constantly  adv-anc- 
ing  in  his  journey,  should  employ  his  time  in  anticipating  the 
falls  he  might  suffer,  or  in  weeping  over  the  place  where  one 
had  happened  ? 

—  Fenelon. 


TIME. 

Time  wasted  is  existence,  used  is  life. 


—  Young. 


Dost  thou  love  life  ?  then  do  not  squander  time  ;  for  that  is 
the  stuff  life  is  made  of. 

—  Franklin. 


Make  use  of  time,  if  thou  valuest  eternity.  Yesterday  cannot 
be  recalled  ;  to-morrow  cannot  be  assured  ;  to-day  only  is. thine, 
which,  if  thou  procrastinatest,  thou  losest,  which  loss  is  lost 
forever. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


Time, —  that  black  and  narrow  isthmus  between  two  eterni- 
ties. 

—  C.  C.  Colton. 


TIME.  583 

Hours  are  golden  links,  God's  token 

Reaching  heaven  ;  but  one  by  one 

Take  them,  lest  the  chain  be  broken 

Ere  the  pilgrimage  be  done. 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


Observe  a  method  in  the  distribution  of  your  time.     Every 

hour  will  then  know  its  proper  employment,  and  no  time  will  be 

lost. 

—  Bishop  Horne. 


In  the  spirit  of  faith  let  us  begin  each  day,  and  we  shall  be 
sure  to  "  redeem  the  time  "  which  it  brings  to  us,  by  changing 
it  into  something  definite  and  eternal.  There  is  a  deep  mean- 
ing in  this  phrase  of  the  apostle,  to  redeem  time.  We  redeem 
time,  and  do  not  merely  use  it.     We  transform  it  into  eternity 

by  living  it  aright. 

—  J.  F.  Clarke. 


The  best  general  means  to  insure  the  profitable  employment 
of  our  time,  is  to  accustom  ourselves  to  living  in  continual  de- 
pendence upon  the  Spirit  of  God  and  His  law,  receiving,  every 
instant,  whatever  He  is  pleased  to  bestow  ;  consulting  Him  in 
every  emergency  requiring  instant  action,  and  having  recourse 
to  Him  in  our  weaker  moments  when  virtue  seems  to  fail. 

—  Fenelon. 


He  who  cannot  find  time  to  consult  his  Bible  will  one  day 
find  he  has  time  to  be  sick ;  he  who  has  no  time  to  pray  must 
find  time  to  die  ;  he  who  can  find  no  time  to  reflect  is  most 
likely  to  find  time  to  sin  ;  he  who  cannot  find  time  for  repent- 
ance will  find  an  eternity  in  which  repentance  will  be  of  no 
avail ;  he  who  cannot  find  time  to  work  for  others  may  find  an 

eternity  in  which  to  suffer  for  himself. 

—  Hannah  More. 


584  TRIALS. 

9 — 

How  awful  that  silent,  unceasing  footfall  of  receding  days  is 
when  once  we  begin  to  watch  it  !  Inexorable,  passionless  — 
though  hope  and  fear  may  pray,  "  Sun,  stand  thou  still  on 
Gibeon,  and  thou  moon  in  the  valley  of  Ajalon,"  —  the  tramp 
of  the  hours  goes  on.  The  poets  paint  them  as  a  linked  chorus 
of  rosy  forms,  garlanded  and  clasping  hands  as  they  dance  on- 
wards. So  they  may  be  to  some  of  us  at  some  moments.  So 
they  may  seem  as  they  approach ;  but  those  who  come  hold  the 
hands  of  those  that  go,  and  that  troop  have  no  rosy  light  upon 
their  limbs,  their  garlands  are  faded,  the  sunshine  falls  not  upon 
the  gray  and  shrouded  shapes,  as  they  steal  ghostlike  through 
the  gloom. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


With  the  magnificence  of  eternity  before  us,  let  time,  with  all 
its  fluctuations,  dwindle  into  its  own  littleness. 

—  Thomas  Chalmers. 


TRIALS. 
Jesus  wept  once  ;  possibly  more  than  once.     There  are  times 
when  God  asks  nothing  of  His  children  except  silence,  patience, 
and  tears. 

—  Charles  S.  Robinson. 


God  has  not  chosen  to  save  us  without  crosses  ;  as  He  has  not 
seen  fit  to  create  men  at  once  in  the  full  vigor  of  manhood,  but 
has  suffered  them  to  grow  up  by  degrees  amid  all  the  perils  and 
weaknesses  of  youth. 

—  Fenelon. 


Under  the  shadow  of  earthly  disappointment,  all  unconscious 
to  ourselves,  our  Divine  Redeemer  is  walking  by  our  side. 

—  E.  H.  Chapin. 


TRIALS.  585 


There  will  be  no  Christian  but  will  have  a  Gethsemane;  but 
every  praying  Christian  will  find  that  there  is  no  Gethsemane 
without  its  angel  ! 

T.   BiNNEY. 


Blessed  be  the  discipline  which  makes  me  reach  out  my  soul's 
roots  into  closer  union  with  Jesus  !  Blessed  be  the  dews  of  the 
Spirit  which  keep  my  leaf  ever  green  !  Blessed  be  the  trials 
which  shake  down  the  ripe,  golden  fruits  from  the  branches. 

—  T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Never   was  there  a   man  of  deep  piety,  who  has  not  been 

brought    into   extremities  —  who  has  not  been  put  into  fire  — 

who  has    been  taught  to  say,  "  Though   He  slay  me,  yet  will  I 

trust  in  Him." 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


Great  trials  seem  to  be  a  necessary  preparation    for  great 

duties.     It  would  seem  that  the  more  important  the  enterprise, 

the  more  severe  the  trial  to  which  the  agent  is  subjected  in  his 

preparation. 

—  Edward  Thomson. 


What  are   we,  O  blessed  Jesus,  that  we  should  not  take  the 

baptism  that  Thou  dost  take,  and  be  crowned,  as  Thou  wert 

crowned,  as  Thou  art,  with  glory  ?     We  thank  Thee  for  trials, 

for  care,  for  trouble,  for  the  yoke,  for  the  burden,  and  for  the 

fulfillment  of  Thy  word,  that  Thy  yoke  is  easy,  and  Thy  burden 

light. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


In  the  time  of  Jesus  the  mount  of  transfiguration  was  on  the 
way  to  the  cross.  In  our  day  the  cross  is  on  the  way  to  the 
mount  of  transfiguration.  If  you  would  be  on  the  mountain, 
you  must  consent  to  pass  over  the  road  to  it. 

—  H.  Clay  Trumbull. 


586  TRIALS. 

Every  Calvary  has  an  Olivet  ;  to   every  place  of  crucifixion 

there  is   likewise  an  ascension.     The  sun  that  was  shrouded  is 

unveiled,  and  heaven  opens  with  hopes  eternal  to  the  soul  which 

was  nigh  unto  despair. 

—  Henry  Giles. 


By  His  trials,  God  means  to  purify  us,  to  take  away  all  our 
self-confidence,  and  our  trust  in  each  other,  and  bring  us  into 
implicit,  humble  trust  in  Himself. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


Oh,  how  often  our  all-wise  Master  puts  us  into  a  deep  pit  of 
trial,  to  subdue  our  pride,  or  to  tame  our  passions,  or  to  break 
our  stubborn  self-will.  Blessed  is  he  who  can  look  up  into  the 
countenance  of  Jesus,  and  honestly  say  :  "  Master,  my  rebellious 
self  is  dead,  that  Thou  mayest  live  in  me,  and  that  1  may  live 
for  Thee  and  Thee  alone." 

T.  L.   CUYLER. 


Nothing  is  intolerable   that  is   necessary.      Now  God  hath 

bound  thy  trouble  upon  thee  by   His  special  providence,  and 

with  a  design  to   try  thee,  and  with  purposes  to  reward    and 

crown  thee.     These  cords  thou  canst  not  break,  and  therefore 

lie  thou  down  gently,  and  suffer  the  hand  of  God  to  do  what  He 

pleases. 

—  Jeremy  Taylor. 


The  way  is  dark,  my  child  !  but  leads  to  light ; 
I  would  not  have  thee  always  walk  by  sight. 
My  dealings  now,  thou  canst  not  understand. 
I  meant  it  so  ;  but  I  will  take  thy  hand. 
And  through  the  gloom  lead  safely  home 
My  child ! 


Henry  N.  Cobb. 


TRIALS.  587 

When  our  troubles  are  many  we  are  often  by  grace  made 
courageous  in  serving  our  God  ;  we  feel  that  we  have  nothing 
to  live  for  in  this  world,  and  we  are  driven,  by  hope  of  the  world 
to  come,  to  exhibit  zeal,  self-denial,  and  industry. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


It  is  the  easiest  thing  in  the  world  for  us  to  obey  God  when 
He  commands  us  to  do  what  Ave  like,  and  to  trust  Him  when 
the  path  is  all  sunshine.  The  real  victory  of  faith  is  to  trust 
God  in  the  dark,  and  through  the  dark.  Let  us  be  assured  of 
this,  that  if  the  lesson  and  the  rod  are  of  His  appointing,  and 
that  His  all-wise  love  has  engineered  the  deep  tunnel  of  trial  on 
the  heavenward  road,  He  will  never  desert  us  during  the  disci- 
pline.    The  vital  thing  for  us  is  not  to  deny  and  desert  Him. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Purge  me,  oh  Lord,  though  it  be  with  fire.  Burn  up  the  chaff 
of  vanity  and  self-indulgence,  of  hasty  prejudice,  second-hand 
dogmas  —  husks  which  do  not  feed  my  soul,  with  which  I  can- 
not be  content,  of  which  I  feel  ashamed  daily  —  and  if  there  be 
any  grain  of  wheat  in  me,  any  word  or  thought  or  power  of 
action  which  may  be  of  use  as  seed  for  my  nation  after  me, 

gather  it,  oh  Lord,  into  Thy  garner. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


All  the  lessons  He  shall  send 

Are  the  sweetest  : 
And  His  training,  in  the  end, 

Is  completest. 


—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


"  Tribulation  worketh  patience;  and  patience,  experience;  and 
experience,  hope."  That  is  the  order.  You  cannot  put  patience 
and  experience  into  a  parenthesis,  and,  omitting  them,  bring 
hope  out  of  tribulation, 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


588  TRIALS. 

Chastising  is  an  effect  of  love.     It  is  not  only  consequential 

to,  but    springs  from    it  ;  wherefore  there  is  nothing  properly 

penal  in  the  chastisement  of  believers.     Punishment  proceeds 

from  love  to  justice,  not  from  love  to  the  person  punished ;  but 

chastisement  is  from  love  to  the  person  chastised,  though  mixed 

with  displeasure  against  sin. 

—  John  Owen. 


What  disturbs  us  in  this  world  is  not  "  trouble,"  but  our  op- 
position to  trouble.  The  true  source  of  all  that  frets  and  irri- 
tates and  wears  away  our  lives,  is  not  in  external  things,  but 
in  the  resistance  of  our  wills  to  the  will  of  God  expressed  by 

external  things. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren.  ' 


Whether  it  be  a  poison  from  one  serpent  sting,  or  whether  it 

be  poison  from  a  million  of  buzzing, tiny  musquitoes ;  if  there 

be  a  smart,  go  to  Him,  and  He  will  help  you  bear  it.     He  will 

do  more.  He  will  bear  it  with  you;  for  if  so  be  that  we  suffer 

with  Him,  He  suffers  with  us. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Life  has  no  smooth  road  for  any  of  us  ;  and  in  the  bracing 

atmosphere  of  a  high  aim,  the  very  roughness  only  stimulates 

the  climber  to  steadier  and  steadier  steps,  till  that  legend  of 

the  rough   places   fulfills  itself  at  last,   ''^ per  aspera  ad  astra," 

over  steep  ways  to  the  stars. 

—  Bishop  W.  C.  Doane. 


The  storms  of  wintry  time  will  quickly  pass, 
And  one  unbounded  spring  encircle  all. 

—  James  Thomson. 


When  He  hath  tried  me,  I  shall  come  forth  as  gold. 

—  Bible. 


TRUST  IN  CHRIST.  589 


TRUST  IN  CHRIST. 
Exercise  your  God-given  power  of  trust.     Look  up  !     Salva- 
tion is  provided,  and  nothing  remains  to  be  done.    Take  hold ! 

Take  hold  !  Do  not  wait  ! 

—  Bishop  Janes. 


Lay  hold  on  Christ  with  both  your  poor,  empty  hands. 

—  Elizabeth  Prentiss. 


Seek  not  only  to   know   about   the   Saviour,  but   seek   confi- 
dence in  Him,  seek  to  know  Him  as  your  own. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Trust  Christ  !     and  a  great  benediction  of  tranquil  repose 
comes  down  upon  the  calm  mind  and  the  tranquil  heart. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  are  to  do  what  Paul  meant,  when  he  said  that  he  had 
committed  to  Christ  what  He  was  able  to  keep.  You  have 
treasures  that  you  dare  not  leave  in  your  own  house,  and  so 
you  lock  them  up  in  some  safety-deposit  vault.  When  they  are 
thus  secured,  you  feel  little  anxiety  regarding  them. 

—  Geo.  C.  Lorimer. 


We  trust  as  we  love,  and  we  trust  where  we  love  ;  if  you  love 
Christ  much   surely  you  will  trust  Him  much. 

—  Thomas  Brooks. 


Do  you  ask  why  Mary  Magdalene  was  the  one  chosen  to 
whom  first  of  all  Christ  should  show  Himself  after  the  resur- 
rection ?  This  we  know  —  she  trusted  in  Him,  and  she  loved 
Him  ;  she  waited  at  His  sepulchre  ;  she  sought,  she  looked,  she 
wept ;  and  if  we  would  have  Christ  reveal  Himself  to  us,  we, 
too,  must  seek  and  wait  and  long  and  trust  and  love. 

—  William  Adams. 


590  TRUST  IN  CHRIST. 

Trust  yourselves,  my  brethren,  to  the  immortal  love  and  per- 
fect work  of  the  Divine  Saviour,  and  by  His  dear  might  your 
days  will  advance  by  peaceful  stages,  whereof  each  gathers  up 
and  carries  forward  the  blessings  of  all  that  went  before,  to  a 
death  which  shall  be  a  birth. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  cannot  come  before  the  sinless  and  holy  Lord  with  a 
stainless  and  holy  life.  We  can  at  best  bring  Him  the  partial 
offerings  of  years.  Yes,  the  holiest  saint  shall  only  at  the  last 
say,  "  Not  for  my  righteousness."  But  if  we  can  say  with 
honest  hearts:  "I  have  striven  to  serve  Th(§e,  I  have  followed 
in  Thy  path,  and  clung  to  Thy  cross,  and  pressed  forward 
through  the  many  falls  and  many  repentings  —  I  bring  Thee  a 
heart  which  asks  nothing  save  Thy  grace,  claims  nothing  save 
Thy  Divine  love  ; "  then  He  will  say,  "  Bring  the  best  robe 
and  put  it  on  him."     "Welcome  to  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

—  E.  A.  Washburn. 


Thou  knowest  all  —  I  lean  my  head  ; 

My  weary  eyelids  close  ; 
Content  and  glad  awhile  to  tread 

This  path,  since  Jesus  kiunvs ! 

We  are  only  asking  you  to  give  to  Christ  that  which  you  give 

to  others,  to  transfer  the   old  emotions,  the  blessed  emotions, 

the  exercise  of  which  makes  gladness  in  the  life  here  below,  to 

transfer  them  to  Him,  and  to  rest  safe  in  the  Lord.     Faith  is 

trust. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


We  must  not  close  with  Christ  because  we  feel  Him,  but  be- 
cause God  has  said  it,  and  we  must  take  God's  word  eve?i  in  the 

dark. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


TRUST  IN  CHRIST.  591 

Can  you  by  humble  faith  look  to  Jesus  and  say:  "  My  sub- 
stitute, my  refuge,  my  shield ;  Thou  art  my  rock,  my  trust ;  in 
Thee  do  I  confide  ?  "  Then,  beloved,  to  you  I  have  nothing 
to  say,  except  this:  "  Never  be  afraid  when  you  see  God's 
power  ;  for  now  that  you  are  forgiven  and  accepted,  now  that 
by  faith  you  have  fled  to  Christ  for  refuge,  the  power  of  God 
need  no  more  terrify  you  than  the  shield  and  sword  of  the 
warrior  need  terrify  his  wife  and  child." 

— C.  H.  SpurgeoNo 


When  he  abandoned  all  attempt  to  save  himself,  Jesus  Christ 
saved  him.  This  was  all  he  knew  about  it.  And  more,  this 
was  all  there  was  about  it. 

• —  ICHABOD  SpENXER. 


Other  refuge  have  I  none  ; 

Hangs  my  helpless  soul  on  Thee  ; 
Leave,  ah,  leave  me  not  alone, 

Still  support  and  comfort  me  ! 
All  my  trust  on  Thee  is  stayed. 

All  my  help  from  Thee  I  bring ; 
Cover  my  defenseless  head 

With  the  shadow  of  Thy  wing. 

—  Charles  Wesley. 


Remember  that  you  are  to  venture  the  whole  salvation  of 
your  soul  on  Christ,  and  on  Christ  only.  You  are  to  cast  loose 
completely  and  entirely  from  all  other  hopes  and  trusts.  You 
are  not  to  rest  partly  on  Christ  and  partly  on  doing  all  you  can. 
In  the  matter  of  your  justification  Christ  is  to  be  all. 

—  J.  C.  Ryle. 


Thomas  passed  on  from  the  fact  of  the  resurrection  to  the 
person  of  the  risen  :  ".My  Lord  and  my  God  !"  Trust  in  the 
risen  Saviour  —  that  was  the  belief  which  saved  his  soul. 


593  TRUST  IN  CHRIST. 

To  Him  let  us  but  cleave  in  all  our  strife  ;  and  the  Temptei 
will  flee  ;  the  wilderness  will  be  desolate  no  more ;  angels  will 
come  and  minister  unto  us ;  and  when  we  pass  from  them  to 
the  ministry  of  life,  be  it  to  the  glory  of  a  transfiguration,  the 
sorrows  of  a  Gethsemane,  or  the  sacrifice  of  the  cross,  the  tran- 
quilizing  peace  of  God  will  never  be  far  from  us. 

—  James  Martineau. 

Scatter  money  in  a  crowd,  how  they  scramble  for  it ;  offer 
bread  to  the  starving,  how  greedily  they  seize  it ;  throw  a  rope 
to  the  drowning,  how  he  eagerly  grasps  it  !  With  like  eagerness 
and  earnestness  may  the  Spirit  of  God  help  you  to  lay  hold  on 
Christ. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 

My  trust  is  not  that  I  am  holy,  but  that,  being  unholy,  Christ 
died  for  me.  My  rest  is  here,  not  in  what  I  am  or  shall  be  or 
feel  or  know,  but  in  what  Christ  is  and  must  be, —  in  what 
Christ  did  and  is  still  doing  as  He  stands  before  yonder  throne 
of  glory. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Nothing  in  my  hand  I  bring, 
Simply  to  Thy  cross  I  cling ; 
Naked,  come  to  Thee  for  dress. 
Helpless,  look  to  Thee  for  grace  ; 
Vile,  I  to  the  fountain  fly. 
Wash  me,  Saviour,  or  I  die  ! 

TOPLADY. 


Let  us  take  short  views.  If  we  look  over  the  precipices,  we 
shall  grow  dizzy.  If  we  look  too  far  ahead,  we  shall  grow  dis- 
couraged. Let  us  rather  put  our  weak  hands  into  Christ's 
strong,  loving  grasp,  and  all  the  time  listen  to  His  cheering 
words,  "  Fear  not;  only  trust.'''' 

—  T.    L.   CUYLER. 


TRUST  IN  CHRIST.  593 

Rather  walking  with  Him  by  faith, 
Than  walking  alone  in  the  light. 


O  holy  trust !  O  endless  sense  of  rest ! 

Like  the  beloved  John 

To  lay  his  head  upon  the  Saviour's  breast, 

And  thus  to  journey  on. 

—  Longfellow. 


And  therefore  let  us  say,  in  utter  faith,  "  Come  as  Thou  seest 
best  —  but  in  whatsoever  way  Thou  comest  —  even  so  come, 
Lord  Jesus." 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


On  Thy  compassion  I  repose, 

In  weakness  and  distress, 
I  will  not  ask  for  greater  ease, 

Lest  I  should  love  Thee  less  ; 
Oh,  'tis  a  blessed  thing  for  me 

To  need  Thy  tenderness. 

When  I  am  feeble  as  a  child. 

And  flesh  and  heart  give  way. 
Then  on  Thy  everlasting  strength 

With  clinging  trust  I  stay  ; 
And  the  rough  wind  becomes  a  song, 

The  darkness  shines  like  day. 

—  Anna  Waring. 


The  soul  that  on  Jesus  hath  leaned  for  repose, 

I  will  not  —  I  will  not  desert  to  his  foes  ; 

That  soul  —  though  all  hell  should  endeavor  to  shake, 

I'll  never  —  no  never  —  no  never  forsake. 

—  George  Keith, 

38 


594  TRUST  IN  CHRIST. 

When  my  neighbor  A  —  broke  in  business,  and  twenty-four 
hours  made  him  a  bankrupt,  he  came  home,  saying  to  himself, 
"  Well,  my  money  is  gone,  but  Jesus  is  left."  He  did  not  merely 
come  down  to  "  hardpan,"  he  came  to  something  far  more  solid 
—  to  the  everlasting  arms.  When  another  friend  laid  her  beau- 
tiful boy  in  his  coffin,  after  the  scarlet  fever  had  done  its  worst, 
she  laid  her  own  sorrowful  heart  upon  the  everlasting  arms.  The 
dear  little  sleeper  was  there  already.  The  Shepherd  had  His 
lamb. 

—  T.    L.  CUYLER. 


I  do  not  ask  my  cross  to  understand 

My  way  to  see  : 

Better  in  darkness  just  to  feel  Thy  hand 

And  follow  Thee. 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


If  ye  never  had  a  sick  night  and  a  pained  soul  for  sin,  ye  have 
not  yet  lighted  upon  Christ. 


—  Rutherford. 


Let  good  or  ill  befall. 

It  must  be  good  for  me, — 

Secure  of  having  Thee  in  all, 
Of  having  all  in  Thee. 


H.  F.  LvTE. 


Make  not  Christ  a  liar  in  distrusting  His  promise. 

—  Rutherford. 


Will  you  tell  Him  frankly,  that  you  cannot  carry  your  load, 
and  that  you  need  help  ?  Will  you  suffer  Him  to  help  you  in 
His  own  way,  and  be  glad  and  thankful  if  He  will  only  take  you 
under  His  care,  and  direct  the  whole  course  of  your  life  for  you  ? 

—  W.  Gladden. 


TRUST  IN  GOD.  595 

Like  dew  on  drooping  blossoms, 

Like  breath  from  Holy  place, 
Laden  with  health  and  healing, 

Come  Thy  deep  words  of  grace  : 
"  Thy  strength  is  all  in  leaning 

On  One  who  fights  for  thee ; 

Thine  is  the  helpless  clinging, 

And  mine  the  victory." 

—  Hetty  Bowman. 


TRUST  IN  GOD. 

I  believe  in  God,  and  I  trust  myself  in  His  hands. 

—  J.  A.  Garfield. 


God  lives  !   there  rest,  my  soul  ; 
God  hears  !  before  Him  bow  ; 
God  sees  !  and  can  control ; 
God  leads  !  then  follow  thou. 
God  gives  and  loves, — 
Look  up  above ! 
O  heart,  be  done  with  all  thy  care ! 
You  shall  live  with  Him  there. 


SCHMOLKE. 


May  we  feel  after  Thee ;  still  calling  out  in  the  darkness,  as 

children  waking  in  the  night  call  "  Father,"  so  may  we  call  out 

for  God ;  and,  at  times,  even  if  we  do  not  hear  Thy  voice,  may 

there  be  the  form  of  a  hand  resting  upon  us,  and  that  shall  be 

enough  ;  for  we  shall  take  hold  of  it,  though  it  be  in  the  dark, 

and  it  shall  guldens  to  the  growing   light;  for  the  day  shall 

come,  and  the  release  and  triumph. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


Ease  of  mind  !    But  I  think  I  can  guess  at  what  you  mean. 
God  became  every  thing  to  you  as  the  world  grew  nothing. 


596  TRUST  IN  GOD. 


Father,  perfect  my  trust ; 

Let  my  spirit  feel  in  death, 
That  her  feet  are  firmly  set 

On  the  rock  of  a  living  faith  ! 

—  Phcebe  Cary. 


If  you  tell  your  troubles  to  God,  you  put  them  into  the  grave  ; 
they  will  never  rise  again  when  you  have  committed  them  to 
Him.  If  you  roll  your  burden  anywhere  else,  it  will  roll  back 
again  like  the  stone  of  Sisyphus. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  believer  is  no  burden  to  his  God,  and  even  if  you  should 
be  carrying  whole  mountains  of  care  and  solicitude,  they  will 
not  make  you  more  burdensome  or  your  case  more  difficult  to 
the  Creator  of  the  ends  of  the  earth.  He  fainteth  not,  neither 
is  weary. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


On  Thee  we  fling  our  burdening  woe, 

O  love  Divine,  forever  dear  : 
Content  to  suffer,  while  we  know, 

Living  and  dying,  Thou  art  near  ! 

—  O.  W.  Holmes. 


I  have  never  committed  the  least  matter  to  Him  that  I  have 

not  had  reason  for  endless  praise. 

—  Anna  Shipton. 


We  want  to  know  more  than  the  silent  God  deems  it  good 
to  tell;  to  understand  the  "a'^y"  which  He  bids  us  wait  to 
ask  ;  to  see  the  path  which  He  has  spread  on  purpose  in  the 
dark.  The  Infinite  Father  does  not  stand  by  us  to  be  cate- 
chised, and  explain  Himself  to  our  vain  mind ;  He  is  here  for 
our  trust. 


TRUST  IN  GOD.  597 


Like  a  blind  spinner  in  the  sun, 

I  tread  my  days. 
I  know  that  all  the  threads  will  run 

Appointed  ways  ; 
I  know  each  day  will  bring  its  task, 
And  being  blind,  no  more  I  ask. 

I  do  not  know  the  use  or  name 

Of  that  I  spin  ; 
I  only  know  that  some  one  came 

And  laid  within 
My  hand  the  thread,  and  said,  "  Since  you 
Are  blind,  but  one  thing  you  can  do." 

—  Mrs.  H.  F.  Jackson. 


Ah,  no  !  henceforth  my  own  desire  shall  be, 
That  He  who  knows  me  best  should  choose  for  me; 
And  so,  whate'er  His  love  sees  good  to  send, 
I'll  trust  it's  best,  because  He  knows  the  end. 

—  Mrs.  C.  Hobart 


If  thou  couldst  trust,  poor  soul  ! 
In  Him  who  rules  the  whole, 

Thou  wouldst  find  peace  and  rest; 
Wisdom  and  sight  are  well,  but  trust  is  best. 

—  A.  A.  Proctor. 


How  calmly  may  we  commit  ourselves  to  the  hands  of  Him 
who  bears  up  the  world  ! 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


What  dost  thou  fear  ?     His  wisdom  reigns 

Supreme,  confessed ; 
His  power  is  infinite  ;  His  love 
Thy  deepest,  fondest  dreams  above, 

So  trust  and  rest. 


598  TRUST  IN  GOD. 


A  friend  called  on  me  when  I  was  ill,  to  settle  some  business. 
My  head  was  too  much  confused  by  my  indisposition  to  under- 
stand fully  what  he  said,  but  I  had  such  unlimited  confidence 
in  him,  that  I  did  whatever  he  bid  me,  in  the  fullest  assurance 
that  it  was  right.  How  simply  I  can  trust  in  man,  and  how 
little  in  God  !  How  unreasonable  is  a  pure  act  of  faith  in  one 
like  ourselves,  if  we  cannot  repose  the  same  faith  in  God. 

—  Richard  Cecil. 


When  God  says  to  us,  "  Give  me  your  load,  trust  me,  what 
you  cannot  do,  I  will  do  for  you,"  He  puts  our  faith  to  one  of 
the  strongest  tests.  He  never  consents  to  carry  our  burdens 
unless  we  give  them  to  Him. 

T.   L.   CUYLER. 


My  little  fellow,  about  four  years  old,  whom  I  brought  with 
me,  gave  himself  no  trouble  amid  the  boats,  omnibuses,  and 
railway  coaches,  on  sea,  land,  and  in  dark  tunnels  ;  his  father 
was  at  his  side,  and  never  a  care  or  fear  or  doubt  or  anxiety 
had  he.  May  we  have  grace  to  be  led  by  the  hand,  and  trust 
to  the  care  and  kindness  of  a  reconciled  God  and  Father. 

—  Thomas  Guthrie. 


We  come,  in  our  trust,  unto  God,  and  the  moment  we  so  em- 
brace Him,  by  committing  our  total  being  and  eternity  to  Him, 
we  find  every  thing  is  transformed.  There  is  life  in  us  from 
God  ;  a  kind  of  Christ-consciousness  is  opened  in  us,  testifying 

with  the  apostle, —  Christ  liveth  in  me. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


We  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  surrender  ourselves  to  God  each 
day,  without  looking  farther ;  He  will  carry  us  in  His  arms  as  a 
tender  mother  bears  her  child.  Let  us  believe,  hope,  and  love 
with  all  the  simplicity  of  babes  ;  in  every  necessity  turning  a 
loving  and  trusting  look  towards  our  Heavenly  Father. 


TRUST  IX  GOD.  599 


It  is  a  view  of  God  tiiat  compensates  every  thing  else,  and 
enables  the  soul  to  rest  in  His  bosom.  How,  when  the  child  in 
the  night  screams  with  terror,  hearing  sounds  that  it  knows  not 
of,  is  that  child  comforted  and  put  to  rest  ?  Is  it  by  a  philo- 
sophical explanation  that  the  sounds  were  made  by  the  rats  in 
the  partition  ?  Is  it  by  imparting  entomological  knowledge  ? 
No  ;  it  is  by  the  mother  taking  the  child  in  her  lap,  and  sing- 
ing sweetly  to  it,  and  rocking  it.     And  the  child  thinks  nothing 

of  the  explanation,  but  only  of  the  mother. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


I  have  studied  at  Barcelona,  at    Salamanca,  at    Alcala,  at 

Paris  ;  what  have  I  learned  ?     The  language  of  doubt  ;  but  in 

me  there  was  no  harbor  for  doubt.     Jesus  came,  and  my  trust 

in  God  has  grown  by  the  doubts  of  men. 

—  Ignatius  Loyola. 

You  must  cast  yourself  on  God's  gospel  with  all  your  weight, 

without  any  hanging  back,  without  any  doubt,  without  even  the 

shadow  of  a  suspicion  that  it  will  give 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Upon  Thy  word  I  rest, 

So  strong,  so  sure  : 
So  full  of  comfort  blest, 
So  sweet,  so  pure  — 
The  word  that  changeth  not,  that  faileth  never ! 
My  King,  I  rest  upon  Thy  word  forever. 

—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


Never  should  we  so  abandon  ourselves  to  God  as  when  He 
seems  to  abandon  us.  Let  us  enjoy  light  and  consolation  when 
it  is  His  pleasure  to  give  them  to  us  ;  but  let  us  not  attach  our- 
selves to  His  gifts,  but  to  Him  ;  and  when  He  plunges  us  into 
the  night  of  pure  faith,  let  us  still  press  on  through,  the  agoniz- 
ins;  darkness. 


600  TRUST  IN  GOD. 


We  sleep  in.  peace  in  the  arms  of  God  when  we  yield  our- 
selves up  to  His  providence,  in  a  delightful  consciousness  of 
His  tender  mercies  ;  no  more  restless  uncertainties,  no  more 
anxious  desires,  no  more  impatience  at  the  place  we  are  in,  for 
it  is  God  who  has  put  us  there,  and  who  holds  us  in  His  arms. 
Can  we  be  unsafe  where  He  has  placed  us,  and  where  He 
watches  over  us  as  a  parent  watches  a  child  ?  This  confiding 
repose,  in  which  earthly  care  sleeps,  is  the  true  vigilance  of  the 
heart  ;  yielding  itself  up  to  God,  with  no  other  support  than 
Him,  it  thus  watches  while  we  sleep.  This  is  the  love  of  Him 
that  will  not  sleep  even  in  death. 

—  Fenelon. 


Turn  your  confidence  and  your  fears  alike  into  prayer. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


"  /  am  trying  to  trust,''  said  one  to  me  this  past  week,  who  had 
heard  the  earth  falling  on  the  casket  which  held  the  cold  form 
of  the  dearest  human  friend,  "  I  am  trying  to  trust,"  and  so  I 
have  seen  a  bird  with  a  broken  wing  trying  to  fly.  When  the 
heart  is  broken,  all  our  trying  will  only  increase  our  pain  and 
unrest.  But  if,  instead  of  trying  to  trust,  we  will  press  closer 
to  the  Comforter,  and  lean  our  weary  heads  upon  His  sufficient 
grace,  the  trust  will  come  without  our  trying,  and  the  promised 
"perfect  peace"  will  calm  every  troubled  wave  of  sorrow. 

A.   E.  KiTTREDGE. 


Cast  thy  burden  on  the  Lord, 

Only  lean  upon  His  word  ; 

Thou  wilt  soon  have  cause  to  bless 

His  unchanging  faithfulness. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 


Toward  the  future  let  us  look   calmly,  cheerfully,   trustfully. 
The  Lord  is  in  it,  and  if  we  are  His,  we  need  fear  no  evil. 


TRUST  IN  GOD.  GOl 


I  would  sooner  walk  in  the  dark,  and  hold  hard  to  a  promise 

of  my  God,  than  trust  in  the  light  of  the  brighest  day  that  ever 

dawned. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


"Mrs.  M.,  you  seem  to  be  very  sick."  "Yes,"  said  she,  "I 
am  dying."  "  And  are  you  ready  to  die.'"  "Sir,  God  knows  / 
have  taken  Him  at  His  word,  and  I  am  not  afraid  to  die." 

—  IcHABOD  Spencer. 


Commit  yourself  then  to  God  !  He  will  be  your  guide.  He 
Himself  will  travel  with  you,  as  we  are  told  He  did  with  the 
Israelites,  to  bring  them  step  by  step  across  the  desert  to  the 
promised  land.  Ah  !  what  will  be  your  blessedness,  if  you  will 
but  surrender  yourself  into  the  hands  of  God,  permitting  Him 
to  do  whatever  He  will,  not  according  to  your  desires,  but  ac- 
cording to  His  own  good  pleasure  ? 

—  Fenelon. 


I  know  not  where  His  islands  lift 

Their  fronded  palms  in  air  ; 
I  only  know  I  cannot  drift 

Beyond  His  love  and  care. 

—  Whittier. 


An  undivided  heart,  which  worships  God   alone,  and  trusts 
Him  as  it  should,  is  raised  above  anxiety  for  earthly  wants. 

—  J.  C.  Geikie. 


If,  like  Jacob,  you  trust  God  in  little  things,  He   may  answer 
you  by  great  things. 

—  J.  R.  Macduff. 


Trust  in  God  for  great  things.     With  your  five  loaves  and  two 
fishes  He  will  show  you  a  way  to  feed  thousands. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


603  TRUTH. 

Trust  arises  from  the  mind's  instinctive  feeling  after  fixed 
realities,  after  the  substance  of  every  shadow,  the  base  of  all 
appearance,  the  everlasting  amid  change. 

—  James   Martineau. 


Not  till  we  come  to  a  simple  reliance  on  the  blood  and  medic- 
ation of  the  Saviour,  shall  we  know  what  it  is  either  to  have 
trust  in  God,  or  know  what  it  is  to  walk  before  Him  without 
fear,  in  righteousness  and  true  holiness. 

—  Chalmers. 


For  us  —  whatever's  undergone, 
Thou  knowest,  wiliest  what  is  done. 
Grief  may  be  joy  misunderstood: 
Only  the  Good  discerns  the  good. 
I  trust  Thee  while  my  days  go  on. 

—  Mrs.  E.  B.  Browning. 


So,  whether  on  the  hill-tops  high  and  fair 

I  dwell,  or  in  the  sunless  valleys  where 

The  shadows  lie  —  what  matter .?  He  is  there. 

And  more  than  this :  where'er  the  pathway  lead. 
He  gives  to  me  no  helpless,  broken  reed. 
But  His  own  hand,  sufficient  for  my  need. 

So,  where  He  leads  me,  I  can  safely  go, 
And  in  the  blest  hereafter  I  shall  know, 
Why  in  His  wisdom  He  hath  led  me  so. 


TRUTH. 


One  of  the  sublimest  things  in  this  world  is  plain  truth. 

BULWER. 

Truth  is    power. 


TRUTH.  G03 

No  pleasure   is  comparable  to   standing  upon  the  vantage- 
ground  of  truth. 

—  Lord  Bacon. 


Truth  is  the  shortest  and  nearest  way  to  our  end,  carrying  us 
thither  in  a  straight  line. 

TiLLOTSON. 


Time,  beneath  whose  influence  the  pyramids  moulder  into 
dust,  and  the  flinty  rocks  decay,  does  not  and  cannot  destroy 
a  fact,  nor  strip  a  truth  of  one  portion  of  its  essential  import- 
ance. 


Truth  is  a  very  different  thing  from  fact  ;  it  is  the  loving 
contact  of  the  soul  with  spiritual  fact,  vital  and  potent.  It 
does  not  work  in  the  soul  independently  of  all  faculty  or  qual- 
ification there  for  setting  it  forth  or  defending  it.  Truth  in 
the  inward  parts  is  a  power,  not  an  opinion. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


Truth  does  not  consist  in  minute  accuracy  of  detail  ;  but  in 

conveying  a  right  impression. 

—  Dean  Alford. 

No   truth   can  be  said  to  be  seen  as  /'/  is  until  it  is  seen  in  its 
relation  to  all  other  truths.      In  this  relation  only  is  it  true. 

—  Elizabeth  Prentiss. 


The  deepest  truth  blooms  only  from  the  deepest  love. 

—  Heine. 


Truth  and  justice  are  the  immutable  laws  of  social  order, 

—  Laplace. 


Peace,  if  possible,  but  the  truth  at  any  rate. 

—  Martin  Luther. 


604  TRUTH. 

Truth  will  ever  be  unpalatable  to  those  who  are  determined 

not  to  relinquish  error. 

—  E.  W.  Montagu. 


It  is  one  thing  to  wish  to  have  truth  on  our  side,  and  another 

thing  to  wish  to  be  on  the  side  of  truth. 

—  Whatelv. 


The  advent  of  truth,  like  the  dawn  of  day,  agitates  the  ele- 
ments, while  it  disperses  the  gloom. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


God  offers  to  every  mind  its  choice  between  truth  and  repose. 

—  R,  W.  Emerson. 


Dare  to  be  true  ;  nothing  can  need  a  lie; 

A  fault  which  needs  it  most  grows  two  thereby. 

—  George  Herbert. 


He  who  seeks  truth  must  be  content  with  a  lonely,  little- 
trodden  path.  If  he  cannot  worship  her  till  she  has  been  can- 
onized by  the  shouts  of  the  multitude,  he  must  take  his  place 
with  the  members  of  that  wretched  crowd  who  shouted  for  two 
long  hours,  "Great  is  Diana  of  the  Ephesians !  "  till  truth, 
reason,  and  calmness  were  all  drowned  in  noise. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Give  us  that  calm  certainty  of  truth,  that  nearness  to  Thee, 
that  conviction  of  the  reality  of  the  life  to  come,  which  we 
shall  need  to  bear  us  through  the  troubles  of  this. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


The  golden  beams  of  truth  and  the  silken  cords  of  love, 
twisted  together,  will  draw  men  on  with  a  sweet  violence 
whether  they  will  or  not. 

CUDWORTH. 


TRUTH.  605 

How  sweet  the  words  of  truth  breathed  from  the  Hps  of  love  ! 

—  James  Beattie. 


Pray  over  every  truth  ;  for  though  the  renewed  heart  is  not 

"  desperately  wicked,"  it  is  quite  deceitful  enough  to  become 

so,  if  God  be  forgotten  a  moment. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


There  is  an  inward  state  of  the  heart  which  makes  truth  cred- 
ible the  moment  it  is  stated.  It  is  credible  to  some  men  be- 
cause of  what  they  are.  Love  is  credible  to  a  loving  heart  ; 
purity  is  credible  to  a  pure  mind;  life  is  credible  to  a  spirit  in 
which  life  beats  strongly  —  it  is  incredible  to  other  men. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


In  all  matters  of  eternal  truth,  the  soul  is  before  the  intel- 
lect ;  the  things  of  God  are  spiritually  discerned.  You  know 
truth  by  being  true  ;  you  recognize  God  by  being  like  Him. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


We   must   not   let   go   manifest    truths   because  we  cannot 
answer  all  questions  about  them. 

—  Jeremy  Collier. 


We  must  never  throw  away  a  bushel  of  truth  because  it  hap- 
pens to  contain  a  feAv  grains  of  chaff, 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Stick  to  the  old  truths  and  the  old  paths,  and  learn  their  di- 
vineness  by  sick-beds  and  in  every-day  work,  and  do  not  darken 
your  mind  with  intellectual  puzzles,  which  may  breed  disbelief, 
but  can  never  breed  vital  religion  or  practical  usefulness. 

—  Charles  Kingsley. 


Truth  needs  no  flowers  of  speech. 

—  Pope. 


606  TRUTH. 

Truth  does  not  require  your  painting,  brother  ;  //  is  itself 
beauty.  Unfold  it,  and  men  will  be  captivated.  Take  your 
brush  to  set  off  the  rainbow,  or  give  a  new  tinge  of  splendor  to 
the  setting  sun,  but  keep  it  away  from  the  "  Rose  of  Sharon 
and  the  Lily  of  the  Valley." 

—  David  Thomas. 


Truth  is  as  impossible  to  be  soiled  by  any  outward  touch  as 

the  sunbeam. 

—  Milton. 


Just  as  soon  as  any  conviction  of  important  truth  becomes 
central  and  vital,  there  comes  the  desire  to  utter  it — a  desire 
which  is  immediate  and  irresistible.  Sacrifice  is  gladness,  ser- 
vice is  joy,  when  such  an  idea  becomes  a  commanding  power. 

—  R.  S.  Storrs. 


God  planted  the  true  seed,  and  He  is  confident  that  it  will 
germinate  and  grow  until  its  branches  shall  fill  the  whole  earth. 
He  has  confidence  in  His  truth  ;  have  you  .''  Can  you  not  be 
content,  like  Him,  to  plant  and  nourish  and  water  and  tenderly 
prune  and  trust  for  the  issue  .-* 


It  is  perilous  to  separate  thinking  rightly  from  acting  rightly. 
He  is  already  half  false  who  speculates  on  truth  and  does  not 
doit.  Truth  is  given,  not  to  be  contemplated,  but  to  be  done. 
Life  is  an  action  —  not  a  thought.  And  the  penalty  paid  by 
him  who  speculates  on  truth,  is  that  by  degrees  the  very  truth 
he  holds  becomes  a  falsehood. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


In  this  life-long  fight,  to  be  waged  by  every  one  of  us  single- 
handed  against  a  host  of  foes,  the  last  requisite  for  a  good  fight, 
the  last  proof  and  test  of  our  courage  and  manfulness,  must  be 
loyalty  to  truth  —  the  most  rare  and  difficult  of  all  human 
qualities. 


UNBELIEF.  G07 


u. 

UNBELIEF. 

Unbelief  makes  a  man   guilty  of  the  vilest  contempt  of  Christ, 

and  the  whole  design  of  redemption  by  Him. 

—  John  Flavel. 


Surely  Scripture  is  right  when  it   makes  the  sin  of  sins  that 

unbelief,  which  is  at  bottom  nothing  else  than  a  refusal  to  take 

the  cup  of   salvation.     vSurely  no  sharper  grief  can  be  inflicted 

upon  the  Spirit  of  God  than  when  we  leave  His  gifts  neglected 

and  unappropriated. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


There  is  nothing  I  feel  more  than  the  criminality  of  not  trust- 
ing Christ  without  doubt —  without  doubt.  Oh,  to  think  what 
Christ  is,  what  He  did,  and  whom  He  did  it  for,  and  then  not 
to  believe  Him,  not  to  trust  Him  !  There  is  no  wickedness  like 
the  wickedness  of  unbelief. 


How  deeply  rooted   must  unbelief  be  in  our  hearts  when  we 
are  surprised  to  find  our  prayers  answered. 

—  Guesses  AT  Truth. 

A  refusal  to  believe  that  God  loves  us  is  the  unbelief  which 

destroys  the  soul. 

—  E.  N.  Kirk. 


"  He  will  reprove  the  world  of  sin  " —  not  because  men  swear 
and  lie  and  steal  and  get  drunk  and  murder —  "  of  sin  because 
they  believe  not  on  me." 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


It  is  no  advantage  to  be  near  the  light  if  the  eyes  are  closed. 

—  St.  Augustine. 


608  UNION  TO  CHRIST. 

I  know  of  no  condition  worse  than  that  of  the  man  who  has 
Httle  or  no  Hght  on  the  supreme  rehgious  questions,  and  who  at 
the  same  time  is  making  no  effort  to  come  to  the  light. 

—  E.  F.  Burr. 


Why  does  a  man  refuse  to  believe  ?  Because  he  has  confi- 
dence in  himself;  because  he  has  not  a  sense  of  his  own  sins; 
because  he  has  not  love  in  his  heart  to  his  Lord  and  Saviour. 
Unbelief  men  are  responsible  for.  Unbelief  is  criminal  because 
it  is  a  moral  act  —  an  act  of  the  Avhole  nature.  Belief  or  unbe- 
lief is  a  test  of  a  man's  whole  spiritual  condition,  just  because 
it  is  the  whole  being,  affections,  will,  conscience,  and  all,  as  well 
as  the  understanding,  which  are  concerned  in  it. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


At  the  conscious  approach  of  death,  faith  in  the  Biblical  Re- 
ligion, with  its  God  and  Christ  and  written  Revelation,  never 
weakens,  but  almost  or  quite  always  strengthens,  and  very  often 
advances  to  a  splendid  assurance ;  while  unbelief  under  the 
same  circumstances  never  strengthens,  but  almost  or  quite 
always  weakens  and  falters,  and  very  often  fails  utterly. 

—  E.  F.  Burr. 


UNION  TO  CHRIST. 

Unless  we  are  wedded  to  Jesus   Christ  by  the  simple  act  of 
trust  in  His  mercy  and  His  power,  Christ  is  nothing  to  us. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Christ  imparts  to  all  believers  all  the  spiritual  blessings  that 
He  is  filled  with,  and  withholds  none  from  any  that  have  union 
with  Him,  be  these  blessings  never  so  great,  or  they  that  re- 
ceive them  never  so  weak  and  contemptible  in  outward  re- 
spects. 

—  John  Flavel. 


UNION  TO  CHRIST.  609 


Remember,  you  are  not  a  tree,  that  can  live  or  stand  alone. 
You  are  only  a  branch.  And  it  is  only  while  you  abide  in 
Christ,  as  the  branch  in  the  vine,  that  you  will  flourish  or  even 

live. 

—  Robert  McCheyne. 


As  long  as  we  abide  in  Christ,  our  action   is  from  Him,  not 
from  our  own  corrupt  and  broken  nature. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


In  having  all  things,  and  not  Thee,  what  have  I  ? 
Not  having  Thee,  what  have  my  labors  got  ? 
Let  me  enjoy  but  Thee,  what  farther  crave  I  ? 
And  having  Thee  alone,  what  have  I  not  ? 

—  Francis  Quarles. 


Our  communion  with  Christ  is  not  on  a  level  of  our  common 

humanity,  but  we  rise  in  it  ;  we  scale  the  heavens  where  He 

sitteth  at  the  right  hand  of  God  ;  we  send  our  longings  up  and 

ask  to  have   attachments  knit  to  Him  ;  to  be  set  in  deepest, 

holiest,  and  most  practical  affinity  with  Him  ;  and  so  to  live  a 

life  that  is  hid  with  Christ  in  God.     In  such  a  life,  we  become 

partakers  of  His  holiness,  and,  in  the  separating  grace  of  that, 

partakers  also  of  His  power. 

—  Horace  Bushnell.  • 


O  !  to  abide  ever  iji  Christ — to  know  His  fellowship,  to  keep 
our  hearts  resting  upon  His  infinite  love,  and  there  to  grow 
from  spiritual  infancy  to  the  full  stature  in  holiness  and  love 
and  joy  and  peace.  May  this  be  your  experience  every  day 
and  hour,  strong  in  Him,  fruitful  in  Him,  happy  in  Him,  until 
with  the  crumbling  of  the  tabernacle  of  clay,  the  fellowship  is 
perfect  in  the  house  not  made  with  hands,  where  we  shall  see 
Him  as  He  is. 

A.  E.   KiTTREDGE. 

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610  UNIVERSE. 


If  ye  abide  in  me,  and  niy  words  abide  in  you,  ye  shall  ask 
what  ye  will,  and  it  shall  be  done  unto  you. 


As  in  mysterious  and  transcendent  union  the  Divine  takes  in- 
to itself  the  human  in  the  person  of  Jesus,  and  eternity  is 
blended  with  time  ;  we,  trusting  Him,  and  yielding  our  hearts 
to  Him,  receive  into  our  poor  lives  an  incorruptible  seed,  and 
for  us  the  soul-satisfying  realities  that  abide  forever  mingle 
with  and  are  reached  through  the  shadows  that  pass  away. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


Jehovah  is  the  Lord  of  the  universe,  and  no  responsible 
creature  can  feel  itself  in  its  right  place  except  in  cheerful  loy- 
alty to  its  Creator.  And  Jehovah  is  the  Joy  of  the  universe, 
and  no  intelligent  being  but  must  feel  a  great  void  in  its  affec- 
tions, till  once  it  love  the  Lord  its  God  with  all  its  strength 

and  mind. 

—  James  Hamilton. 


Jesus,  my  life  is  Thine, 
And  ever  more  shall  be 
Hidden  in  Thee, 

For  nothing  can  untwine 
Thy  life  from  mine. 


—  F.  R.  Havergal. 


UNIVERSE. 

What  blessedness  it  is  to  dwell  amidst  this  transparent  air, 
which  the  eye  can  pierce  without  limit,  amidst  these  floods  of 
pure,  soft,  cheering  light,  under  this  immeasurable  arch  of 
heaven,  and  in  sight  of  these  countless  stars !  An  infinite  uni- 
verse is  each  moment  opened  to  our  view.  And  this  uni- 
verse is  the  sign  and   symbol  of  Infinite  Power,  Intelligence, 

Purity,  Bliss,  and  Love. 

—  W.  E.  Channing. 


VIRTUE.  Gil 

All  things  are  connected  with  all  things  throughout  the  uni- 
verse, from  the  insect  to  the  archangel  ;  from  the  sand-grain 
to  the  mountain  and  the  globe  ;  from  the  dew-drop  to  the 
ocean  ;  from  the  rain-drop  to  the  rainbow ;  from  the  pebble  on 
the  shore  to  the  sun  that  blazes  in  the  firmament ;  from  the 
zephyr  that  sings  among  the  flowers  of  the  field  to  the  ocean 
that  pours  its  wild  bass  in  the  great  anthem  of  nature.  Not 
only  are  all  things  connected  with  all  things,  but  there  is  a  con- 
catenation of  events,  so  that  the  character  and  effects  of  no 
one  event  can  terminate  in  itself.  As  each  event  owes  some 
portion  of  its  nature  to  that  which  preceded  it,  so  it  imparts 
some  of  its  nature  to  that  which  succeeds  it,  and  thus  perpetu- 
ates the  blended  good  or  evil  of  itself  and  its  predecessors.  The 
single  event  may  thus  live  on  in  its  influence  along  the  line 
of  all  the  ages,  assuming  new  shapes,  or  if  clothing  itself  in 
the  drapery  of  new  events,  ever  marching  onward  and  upward 

in  the  continually  growing  affairs  of  time. 

—  John  Lanahan. 


V. 

VIRTUE. 

Virtue  consists  in  doing  our  duty  in  the  several  relations  we 
sustain  in  respect  to  ourselves,  to  our  fellow  men,  and  to  God, 
as  known  from  reason,  conscience,  and  revelation. 

—  J.  W.  Alexander. 


We  cannot  have  right  virtue  without  right  conditions. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


True  elevation,  an  elevation  essential  and  eternal,  is  one  of 
merit,  one  of  virtue.  Birth,  fortune,  genius,  are  nothing  be- 
fore God.  For  what  is  birth  before  God  who  was  never  born  ? 
What  is  fortune  before  God  who  made  the  world .''  What  is 
genius  before  God  who  is  an  infinite  mind  ? 


012  WAITING. 


The  paths  of  virtue,  though   seldom   those  of  worldly  great- 
ness, are  always  those  of  pleasantness  and  peace. 

—  Sir  Walter  Scott. 


Virtue  is  not  a  mushroom,  that  springeth  up  of  itself  in  one 
night  when  we  are  asleep,  or  regard  it  not ;  but  a  delicate 
plant,  that  groweth  slowly  and  tenderly,  needing  much  pains 
to  cultivate  it,  much  care  to  guard  it,  much  time  to  mature  it, 
in  our  untoward  soil,  in  this  world's  unkindly  weather. 

—  Barrow. 


No  state  of  virtue  is  complete,  however  total  the  virtue,  save 
as  it  is  won  by  a  conflict  with  evil,  and  fortified  by  the  strug- 
gles of  a  resolute  and  even  bitter  experience. 

—  Horace  Bushnell. 


What  the  world  calls  virtue  is  a  name   and  a  dream  without 

Christ.     The  foundation  of  all  human  excellence  must  be  laid 

deep  in  the  blood  of  the  Redeemer's  cross,  and  in  the  power  of 

His  resurrection. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


A  virtuous  youth  and  frugal  manhood  always  create  a  Pisgah 
for  the  veteran  in  righteousness,  from  which  he  may  calmly 
survey  the  stars,  and  read  his  "  title  clear  to  mansions  in  the 
skies,"  while  yet  in  the  flesh  he  can  soar  on  the  wings  of  med- 
itation above  the  clouds,  and  catch  glimpses  of  the  heavenly 
world  that  lies  in  the  placid  and  everlasting  orient  before  him. 

—  E.  L.  Magoon. 


W. 

WAITING. 
They  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait. 


WAR.  613 

Let  me  rejoice  in  the  light  which  Thou  hast  imparted  ;  let 
me  serve  Thee  with  active  zeal,  humbled  confidence,  and  wait 
with  patient  expectation  for  the  time  in  which  the  soul  which 
Thou  receivest  shall  be  satisfied  with  knowledge. 

—  Samuel  Johnson. 


We  are  waiting.  Master,  waiting. 

Wayworn,  pressed  with  toils  and  strife  ; 

Waiting,  hoping,  watching,  praying. 
Till  we  reach  the  gates  of  life. 

—  Ray  Palmer. 


Be  patient,  my  friends  ;  time  rolls  rapidly  away  ;  our  longing 
has  its  end.  The  hour  will  strike,  who  knows  how  soon  .'' — 
when  the  maternal  lap  of  everlasting  Love  shall  be  opened  to 
us,  and  the  full  peace  of  God  breathe  around  us  from  the 
palmy  summits  of  Eden. 

—  Krummacher. 


Only  waiting  till  the  shadows 

Are  a  little  longer  grown. 
Only  waiting  till  the  glimmer 

Of  the  day's  last  beam  is  flown. 
Then  from  out  the  gathered  darkness, 

Holy,  deathless  stars  shall  rise, 
By  whose  light  my  soul  shall  gladly 

Tread  its  pathway  to  the  skies. 


Waiting  for  the  adoption,  to  wit,  the  redemption  of  our  body. 


WAR. 
The  fruits  of  the  gospel    are  love,    forbearance,    meekness, 
purity,  joy  ;  those  of  war  are  hatred,  vengeance,  lust,  carnage, 
and  misery. 


614  WEARINESS. 


War  will  never  yield  but  to  the  principles  of  universal  justice 

and   love,  and   these   have   no   sure    root  but  in  the  religion  of 

Jesus  Christ. 

—  W.  E.  Changing. 

No  nation  could  preserve   its  freedom  in  the  midst  of  con- 
tinual warfare. 

—  James  Madison. 


WEARINESS. 

Jesus,  give  the  weary 
Calm  and  sweet  repose. 

With  Thy  tend'rest  blessing 
May  our  eyelids  close. 


—  S.  Baring-Gould. 


After  all  there  is  a  weariness  that  cannot  be  prevented.     It 

will  come  on.     The  work  brings  it  on.     The  cross  brings  it  on. 

Sometimes  the  very  walk  with  God  brings  it  on,  for  the  flesh  is 

weak  ;  and  at  such  moments  we  hear  softer  and  sweeter  than  it 

ever  floated  in  the  wondrous  air  of  Mendelssohn,  "O  rest  in  the 

Lord,"  for  it  has  the  sound  of  an  immortal  requiem  :    "  Blessed 

are  the  dead   who  die  in  the  Lord,  for  they  rest  from   their 

labors." 

—  James  Hamilton. 


So  tired  !  Lord,  Thou  wilt  come 
To  take  me  to  my  home, 
So  long  desired  : 

Only  Thy  grace  and  mercy  send, 
That  I  may  serve  Thee  to  the  end. 
Though  I  am  tired. 


There  the  wicked  cease  from  troubling  ;  and  there  the  weary 
be  at  rest. 


WILL.  615 


WILL. 
We  lay  it  down  as  a  first  principle  —  from  which  we  can  no 
more  depart  than   from  the   consciousness  of  existence  —  that 
man  is  free  ;  and  therefore  stand  ready  to  embrace  whatever  is 
fairly  included  in  the  definition  of  freedom. 

—  Archibald  Alexander. 


Renew  my  will  from  day  to  day, 
Blend  it  with  Thine,  and  take  away 

All  that  now  makes  it  hard  to  say, 
"Thy  will  be  done." 

—  Charlotte  Elliott. 


What  men  want  is  not  talent,  it  is  purpose  ;  in  other  words, 
not  the  power  to  achieve,  but  the  will  to  labor.  I  believe  that 
labor  judiciously  and  continuously  applied  becomes  genius. 


You  cannot  will  to  possess  the  spirit   of  Christ,  that  must 

come  as  His  gift ;   but  you  can  choose  to  study  His  life,  and  to 

imitate  it. 

—  E.  Prentiss. 


There  may  be  some  tenderness  in  the  conscience  and  yet  the 
will  be  a  very  stone  ;  and  as  long  as  the  will  stands  out,  there 
is  no  broken  heart. 

—  Richard  Alleine. 


Do  not  let  the  loud  utterances  of  your  own  wills  anticipate, 
nor  drown,  the  still,  small  voice  in  which  God  speaks.  Bridle 
impatience  till  He  does.  If  you  cannot  hear  His  whisper,  wait 
till  you  do.  Take  care  of  running  before  you  are  sent.  Keep 
your  wills  in  equipoise  till  God's  hand  gives  the  impulse  and 
direction. 

•     — Alexander  Maclaren. 


616  WISDOM. 


Want  of  will  causes  paralysis  of  every  faculty.     In  spiritual 
things  man  is  utterly  unable  because  resolvedly  unwilling. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


The  true  servants  of  God  are  not  solicitous  that  He  should 
order  them'  to  do  what  they  desire  to  do,  but  that  they  may  de- 
sire to  do  what  He  orders  them  to  do. 

—  St.  Augustine, 


My  will,  not  Thine  be  done,  turned   Paradise  into  a  desert, 

"  Thy  will,  not  mine  be  done,"  turned  the  desert  into  Paradise, 

and  made  Gethsemane  the  gate  of  heaven. 

—  Pressense. 


WISDOM. 

Be  wise  to-day  ;  'tis  madness  to  defer. 


—  Young. 


What  is  it  to  be  wise  ? 
'Tis  but  to  know  how  little  can  be  known, 
To  see  all  other's  faults,  and  feel  our  own, 

—  Pope. 


Knowledge  conies,  but  wisdom  lingers. 

—  Tennyson. 


The  heart  is  wiser  than  the  intellect. 

—  J.  G.  Holland. 


For  knowledge  to  become  wisdom,  and  for  the  soul  to  grow, 
the  soul  must  be  rooted  in  God  :  and  it  is  through  prayer  that 
there  comes  to  us  that  which  is  the  strength  of  our  strength, 
and  the  virtue  of  our  virtue,  the  Holy  Spirit. 

—  W^L  Mountford. 


WOMAN.  617 

The  question  is,  whether,  Uke  the  Divine  Child  in  the  Tem- 
ple, we  are  turning  knowledge  into  wisdom,  and  whether,  un- 
derstanding more  of  the  mysteries  of  life,  we  are  feeling  more  of 
its  sacred  law  ;  and  whether,  having  left  behind  the  priests  and 
the  scribes  and  the  doctors  and  the  fathers,  we  are  about  our 
Father's  business,  and  becoming  wise  to  God. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


Knowledge  is  proud  that  he  has  learned  so  much  ; 
Wisdom  is  humble  that  he  knows  no  more. 

—  COWPER. 


The  wise  man  is  but  a  clever  infant,  spelling  letters  from  a 
hieroglyphical  prophetic  book,  the  lexicon  of  which  lies  in  eter- 
nity. 

—  T.  Carlyle. 


What  in  me  is  dark, 
Illumine,  what  is  low,  raise  and  support. 

—  Milton. 


WOMAN. 


Women  of  America  !  You  can  give  and  serve  a.nd pray.  You 
can  give  self-denyingly.  You  can  serve  lovingly.  You  can 
pray  conqueringly.  The  best  example  of  self-denying  liberality 
in  the  Bible  is  recorded  of  woman.  The  best  example  of  loving 
service  in  the  Bible  is  recorded  of  woman.  The  best  example 
of  conquering  prayer  in  the  Bible  is  recorded  of  woman.  It  was 
no  great  gift,  no  great  service,  no  great  prayer.  The  gift  was  a 
widow's  mite.  The  service  was  the  anointing  of  Jesus  with  a 
box  of  ointment.  The  prayer  was  a  mother's  prayer  for  a 
daughter  possessed  with  a  devil.  But  the  gift  and  service  and 
prayer  were  in  self-denial  and  love  and  faith.  And  so  in  the 
sight  of  God  they  were  of  great  price. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


618  WORKS. 

Without  religion,  man  is  an  atheist,  woman  is  a  monster.    As 

daughter,  sister,  wife,  and  mother,  she  holds  in  her  hands,  under 

God,  the  destinies   of  humanity.     In  the  hours  of  gloom  and 

sorrow  we  look  to  her  for  sympathy  and  comfort.     Where  shall 

she  find  strength  for  trial,  comfort  for  sorrow,  save  in  that  gospel 

which  has  given  a  new  meaning  to  the  name  of  *'  mother,"  since 

it  rested  on  the  lips  of  the  child  Jesus  ? 

—  Bishop  Whipple. 


Christ  has  lifted  woman  to  a  new  place  in  the  world.     And 

just   in  proportion   as  Christianity   has  sway,  will  she  rise  to  a 

higher  dignity  in  human  life.     What  she  has  now,  and  what  she 

shall  have,  of  privilege  and  true  honor,  she  owes  to  that  gospel 

which  took  those  qualities  peculiarly  and  which    had    been 

counted  w©ak  and  unworthy,  and  gave  them  a  Divine  glory  in 

Christ. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


WORKS. 

Although  good  works,  which  are  the  fruits  of  faith,  and  fol- 
low after  justification,  cannot  put  away  our  sins,  and  endure 
the  severity  of  God's  judgments,  yet  are  they  pleasing  and 
acceptable  to  God  in  Christ,  and  spring  out  of  a  true  and 
lively  faith,  insomuch  that  by  them  a  lively  faith  may  be  as 
evidently  known  as  a  tree  is  discerned  by  its  fruit. 

—  Articles  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


The  movement  of  the  soul  along  the  path  of  duty,  under  the 
influence  of  holy  love  to  God,  constitutes  what  we  call  good 
works. 

—  Thomas  Erskine. 


It  is  impossible  that  those  who  are  implanted  into  Christ  by 
a  true  faith,  should  not  bring  forth  fruits  of  thankfulness. 

—  Heidelberg  Catechism. 


WORLD.  619 

You  never  will  be  saved  by  works  ;  but  let  us  tell  you  most 
solemnly  that  you  never  will  be  saved  without  \yox\?,. 

—  T.   L.   CUYLER. 


Christian  practice  is  that  evidence^ which  confirms  every  other 
indication  of  true  godliness. 

—  Jonathan  Edwards. 


It  is  the  hardest  thing  in  the  world  not  to  think  our  good 
works  better  than  they  are.  and  to  make  the  very  best  keep 
their  distance  in  the  office  of  justification.  Though  we  must 
be  judged  by  and  according  to  our  actions,  yet  we  shall  not  be 
saved  by  them. 


Many  shall  seek ;  do  you  strive.  For  wishing  is  one  thing, 
and  willing  is  another,  and  doing  is  yet  another.  And  in  regard 
to  entrance  into  Christ's  kingdom,  our  "  doing  "  is  trusting  Him 
who  has  done  all  for  us.  "  This  is  the  work  of  God,  that  ye 
should  believe  on  Him  whom  He  hath  sent."  Does  your  wish 
lead  to  the  acceptance  of  the  condition  ?  Then  it  will  be  ful- 
filled. 

—  Alexander  Maclaren. 


When  a  man  dies  they  who  survive  him  ask  what  property  he 

has  left  behind.     The  angel  who  bends  over  the  dying  man  asks 

what  good  deeds  he  has  sent  before  him. 

—  Koran. 


W^ORLD. 


And  what  is  this  world  in  the  immensity  that  teems  with 
them  ?  And  what  are  they  who  occupy  it  ?  The  universe  at 
large  would  suffer  as  little  in  its  splendor  and  variety  by  the 
destruction  of  our  planet  as  the  verdure  and  sublime  magni- 
tude of  a  forest  would  suffer  by  the  fall  of  a  single  leaf. 


620  WORLDLINESS. 


Ownership  in  the  world  I  have  none,  but  I  have  an  infinite 
interest  in  it ;  for  if  not  my  own  it  is  my  God's  ;  and  so  it  is 
mine  in  a  higher  than  a  legal  sense.  Yes,  this  is  the  beauty, 
this  is  the  whole  sublimity,  this  is  the  tender  delight  of  life  — 
that  it  is  of  God's  governing. 

—  Wm.  Mountford. 


The  world's  history  is  a  Divine  poem,  of  which  the  history 

of  every  nation  is  a  canto,  and  every  man  a  word.     Its  strains 

have  been  pealing  along  down  the  centuries,  and  though  there 

have  been  mingled  the  discords  of  warring  cannon  and  dying 

men,  yet    to    the    Christian   philosopher   and    historian  —  the 

humble   listener  —  there   has   been  a  Divine   melody    running 

through   the  song  which  speaks  of  hope  and  halcyon  days  to 

come. 

~J.  A.  Garfield. 


WORLDLINESS. 
Set  not  your  heart  upon  the  world,  since  God  hath  not  made 
it  your  portion. 

—  Rutherford. 


Lift  thyself  up,  look  around,  and  see  something  higher  and 
brighter  than  earth,  earthworms,  and  earthly  darkness. 

—  Jean  Paul  Richter. 


O  my  God !  close  my  eyes,  that  I  may  see  Thee  ;    separate 
me  from  the  world,  that  I  may  enjoy  Thy  company. 

—  Christian  Scriver. 


Worldliness  consists  in  these  three  :  attachment  to  the  out- 
ward —  attachment  to  the  transitory  —  attachment  to  the 
unreal :  in  opposition  to  love  for  the  inward,  the  eternal,  the 
true  :  and  the  one  of  these  affections  is  necessarily  expelled  by 
the  other. 


WORLDLINESS.  621 


Unworldliness  is  this  —  to  hold  things  from  God  in  the  per- 
petual conviction  that  they  will  not  last  ;  to  have  the  world, 
and  not  let  the  world  have  us  ;    to  be  the  world's  masters,  and 

not  the  world's  slaves. 

—  F.  W.  Robertson. 


There  is  such  a  thing  as  a  worldly  spirit,  and  there  is  such  a 
thing  as  an  unworldly  spirit  —  and  according  as  we  partake  of 
the  one  or  the  other,  the  savor  of  the  sacrifice  of  our  lives  is 
ordinary,  common-place,  poor,  and  base  ;  or  elevating,  invigor- 
ating, useful,  noble,  and  holy. 

—  Dean  Stanley. 


Conformity  to  the  world  has  in  all  ages  proved  the  ruin  of 

the  church.     It  is  utterly  impossible  to  live  in  nearness  to  God, 

and  in  friendship  with  the  world. 

—  Rowland  Hill. 

Show  me  the  men  who  imbibe  the  spirit  of  the  world,  who 
choose  the  company  of  the  world,  who  imitate  the  example  of 
the  world,  conform  to  the  maxims  of  the  world,  are  swallowed 
up  in  the  gayety,  fashions,  and  amusements  of  the  world  ;  — 
behold,  these  are  the  ungodly,  who  are  brought  into  desola- 
tion as  in  a  moment. 

—  Gardiner  Spring. 


There  is  no  surer  evidence  of  an  unconverted  state  than  to 
have  the  things  of  the  world  uppermost  in  our  aim,  love,  and 
estimation. 

—  Joseph  Alleine. 


Not  by  empty  protestations  against  the  pleasures  of  the  world, 
and  cynical  denunciations  of  its  enjoyments,  but  by  our  su- 
periority to  its  perishing  greatness,  to  its  fading  beauties,  and 
its  impotent  antagonisms,  are  we  to  express  our  redemption 
from  its  power.  — Geo.  C.  Lorimer. 


623  WORLDLINESS. 


We  wonder  why  a  certain  church-member  is  so  lax  in  his 
devotions  and  loose  in  his  practices.  The  reason  is  that,  while 
his  trunk  and  his  branches  are  over  on  the  church  side  of  the 
wall,  his  roots  run  under  the  wall  and  dwell  in  the  bad  soil  on 
the  other  side. 

T.    L.   CUYLER. 


Christians  should  live  in  the  world,  but  not  be  filled  with  it. 
A  ship  lives  in  the  water  •  but  if  the  water  gets  into  the  ship, 
she  goes  to  the  bottom.  So  Christians  may  live  in  the  world ; 
but  if    the  world  gets  into  them,  they  sink. 

—  D.  L.  Moody. 


The  only  true  method  of  action   in  this  world  is  to  be  in  it, 
but  not  of  it. 

—  Madame  Swetchine. 


A  Christian  making   money  fast  is  just  a  man  in  a   cloud  of 
dust,  it  will  fill  his  eyes  if  he  be  not  careful. 

—  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Christianity  does  not  condemn  traffic,  commerce,  material 
activities  of  any  kind.  Its  highest  development  is  possible 
with  the  busiest  life.  To  be  a  first-rate  business  man  does  not 
involve  being  a  fourth-rate  Christian. 


Buying,  possessing,  accumulating  —  this  is  not  worldliness. 
But  doing  this  in  the  love  of  it,  with  no  love  of  God  para- 
mount —  doing  it  so  that  thoughts  of  eternity  and  God  are  an 
intrusion  —  doing  it  so  that  one's  spirit  is  secularized  in  the 
process  ;    this  is  worldliness. 

—  Herrick  Johnson. 


They  best  pass  over  the  Avorld  who  trip  over  it  quickly  ;  for 
it  is  but  a  bog.     If  we  stop,  we  sink. 

—  Queen  Elizabeth. 


WORTH  — YOUTH.  623 

I  had  as  lief  preach  humanity  to  a  battle  of  eagles,  as  to  urge 
honesty  and  integrity  upon  those  who  have  deterinined  to  be 
rich,  and  to  gain  it  by  gambhng  stakes,  and  madmen's  ventures. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


WORTH. 
In  all  our  noble  -Anglo-Saxon  language,  there  is  scarcely  a 
nobler  word  than  worth  ;  yet  this  term  has  now  almost  exclu- 
sively a  pecuniary  meaning.  So  that  if  you  ask  what  a  man  is 
worth,  nobody  ever  thinks  of  telling  you  what  he  is,  but  what  he 
has.  The  answer  will  never  refer  to  his  merits,  his  virtues,  but 
always  to  his  possessions.     He  is  worth  —  so  much  money. 

—  Richard  Fuller. 


Dignity  and  rank  and  riches  are  all  corruptible  and  worthless  ; 
but  moral  character  has  an  immortality  that  no  sword-point  can 
destroy. 

—  John  Gumming. 


Y. 

YOUTH. 


The  greatest  part  ot  mankind  employ  their  first  years  to  make 
their  last  miserable. 

—  Bruyere. 


Use  thy  youth  so  that  thou  mayest  have  comfort  to  remem- 
ber it  when  it  hath  forsaken  thee,  and  not  sigh  and  grieve  at  the 
account  thereof.  Use  it  as  the  spring-time  which  soon  depart- 
eth,  and  wherein  thou  oughtest  to  plant  and  sow  all  provisions 
for  a  long  and  happy  life. 

—  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 


No  boy  is  well  prepared  for  rough  climbing,  unless  he  is  well 
shod  with  Christian  principles. 


624  YOUTH. 

Every  stage  of  life  has  its  own  set  of  manners,  that  is  suited 
to  it,  and  best  becomes  it.  Each  is  beautiful  in  its  season  ; 
and  you  might  as  Avell  quarrel  with  the  child's  rattle,  and  ad- 
vance him  directly  to  the  boy's  top  and  span-farthing,  as  expect 
from  diffident  youth  the  manly  confidence  of  riper  age. 

—  Bishop  Hurd. 


A  youth  thoughtless  !  Avhen  the  career  of  all  his  days  depends 
on  the  opportunity  of  a  moment !  A  youth  thoughtless  !  when 
all  the  happiness  of  his  home  forever  depends  on  the  chances  or 
the  passions  of  an  hour  !  A  youth  thoughtless  !  when  his  every 
act  is  a  foundation-stone  of  future  conduct,  and  every  imagina- 
tion a  fountain  of  life  or  death  !  Be  thoughtless  in  any  after 
years,  rather  than  now  —  though  indeed  there  is  only  one  place 
where  a  man  may  be  nobly  thoughtless  —  his  death-bed.      No 

thinking  should  be  ever  left  to  be  done  there. 

—  John  Ruskin. 


Oh  thou  corrupter  of  youth  !  I  would  not  take  thy  death,  for 
all  the  pleasures  of  thy  guilty  life,  a  thousand  fold.  Thou  shalt 
draw  near  to  the  shadow  of  death.  To  the  Christian  these 
shades  are  the  golden  haze  which  heaven's  light  makes,  when  it 
meets  the  earth  and  mingles  with  its  shadows.  But  to  thee, 
these  shall  be  shadows  full  of  phantom-shapes.  Images  of  ter- 
ror in  the  Future  shall  dimly  rise  and  beckon  :  —  the  ghastly 
deeds  of  the  Past  shall  stretch  out  their  skinny  hands  to  push 
thee  forward  !  Thou  shalt  not  die  unattended  !  Despair  shall 
mock  thee.  Agony  shall  tender  to  thy  parched  lips  her  fiery 
cup.  Remorse  shall  feel  for  thy  heart  and  rend  it  open.  Good 
men  shall  breathe  freer  at  thy  death,  and  utter  thanksgiving 
when  thou  art  gone. 

—  H.  W.  Beecher. 


When  we  are  out  of  sympathy  with  the  young,  then  I  think  our 
work  in  this  world  is  over. 

—  George  MacDonald. 


ZEAL.  625 

Evil  men  of  every  degree  will  use  you,  flatter  you,  lead  you 
on  until  you  are  useless  ;  then,  if  the  virtuous  do  not  pity  you, 
or  God  compassionate,  you  are  without  a  friend  in  the  universe. 

—  H,  W.  Beecher. 


ZEAL. 

It  is  only  through  a  burning  zeal  for  the  salvation  of  the  lost  — 
a  zeal  glowing  in  the  heart,  and  flashing  out  in  the  look  and 
action  and  utterance  —  that  the  confidence  of  unbelief  can  be 
overcome,  and  the  heedless  travelers  of  the  broad  way  won  to 
the  path  of  life  and  happiness.  Love  is  the  most  potent  logic  ; 
interest  and  sympathy  are  the  most  subduing  eloquence. 

—  The  Christian  at  Work. 


A  zealous  soul  without  meekness  is  like  a  ship  in  a  storm,  in 
danger  of  wrecks.  A  meek  soul  without  zeal,  is  like  a  ship  in  a 
calm,  that  moves  not  so  fast  as  it  ought, 

—  J.  M,  Mason. 


It  is  a  coal  from  God's  altar  must  kindle  our  fire  ;  and  with- 
out fire,  true  fire,  no  acceptable  sacrifice. 

—  William  Penn. 

40 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


[The  figures  refer  to  the  pages.  In  many  instances  a  parenthesis  follows  the  name 
of  the  author  giving  his  birthplace  and  his  time  of  birth  and  death.  In  a  few  cases  the 
name  of  the  book  or  periodical  is  given.] 


Adams,  John,  (Amer.,  1735-1826).    50. 

Adams,  Nehemiah,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1806-).     75,  259,  268,  460. 

Adams,  Mrs.  S.  F.,  (Eng.,  1805-1849).     282. 

Adams,  Rev.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1701-1784).     167,  272,  582,  619. 

Adams,  William,   D.    D.,  (Amer.,  1707-1789).     4,91,  102,   163,  165,  210, 

219,  222,  224,  230,  342,  396,  398,  448,  5S9. 
Addison,  Joseph,  (Eng.,  1672-1719).     209,  337,  377,  484. 
Advance,  The.     420. 
Aguilar,  Grace,  (Eng.,  1816-1847).     578. 
Alex.\nder,  J.  Addison,  D.  D.,  (Vir.,  1809-1860).     472..  219. 
Alexander,  Archibald,  D.  D.,  (Vir.,  1772-1851).     580,615. 
Alexander,   Mrs.  C.  P.,  (Ire.,  1823-).     280. 
Alexander,  J.  W.,  D.  D.,  (Vir.,  1804-1859).     30,  274,  611. 
Alford,  Dean  HenrJ^  (Eng.,  1810-1871).     2S0,  603. 
Alleine,  Rev.  Joseph,  (Eng. ,  1633-1688).     86, 163,  283,  320, 327,  336,  436, 

448,  540,  550,  551,  621. 
Alleine,  Rev.    Richard,  (Eng.,  1610-1681).     143,  171.  277,  317.  462.  546, 

615. 
Allen,  Rev.  James,  (1734-1804).     371. 
Ambrose,  St.,  (Treves,  340-397).     509. 
Angelus    Silesius,  268. 
Anselm,  St.,  (France,  1034-1109).     123. 
Anthony,  C.  H.,  (N.  Y.,  1812-1872).    382. 
Anthony,   St.,  (Egypt,  251-256).     541. 
Arnold,  Dr.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1795-1842),     22,  133,  254,  364. 


628  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Arnot,  William,  D.  D.,(Scot).     281,464. 

Arthur,   Rev.   William,  (Ire.,  1S19-).     83,  113,  190,  191,318,321,322, 

323.  473.  491.  553- 
Articles  of  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.    361,  526,  618. 
Augustine,  St.,  (Numidia,  354-430).     25,  62,   157,  267,  268,  277,296,  330, 

351,  392.  395.433,449,462,  464.486,  5TI,  512,  515,  520,  523,  607,  616. 

Backus,  Charles,  D.  D.,  (Conn.,  1749-1S03).     375,  401,  491. 
Bacon,  Ld.  Francis,  (Eng.,  1561-1626).     18, 19,  189,  487,  521,  603. 
Bacon,  Leonard,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1802-1881).     511. 
Bailey,  P.  J.,  (Eng.,  1816-).     9,  300,383,  459- 
Bailie,  Joanna,  (Scot.,  1762-1851).     459. 
Ballard,  Prof.  Edward.     401. 

Bancroft,  George,  (Mass.,  1800-).     22,425,  425,  481. 
Baptist  Church  Manual.    28,  81,  190,  509,  525,  527. 
Barbauld,  AnnaL.,  (Eng.,  1743-1825).     161,  176,  3S5.  433. 
Baring-Gould,  Rev.  S.,  (Eng.,  1834-).     614. 

Barnes,  Albert,  D.  D.,(N.  Y.,  1798-1870).  28,72,  114,  134,176,200, 
206,272,   289,  293,  308,   316.  31S,   340,  342,  382,  383,437,   450,  452, 

455,  532. 

Barrow,  Isaac,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1630-1677)-     612. 

Bascom,  John,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     213,  269. 

Basil,  St.,  (328-379).     291. 

Battershall,  W.  W.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     174. 

Baxter,  Rev.  Richard,  (Eng.,  1615-1691).     11,  36,  102. 

Bayne,  Peter,  (Scot.).     205. 

Beattie,  James,  (Scot.,  1735-1803).     332,  33S,  605. 

Beddome,  Rev.  Benj.,  (Eng.,  1717-1795).     514. 

Beecher,  Rev.  H.  W.,  (Conn.,  1813-).  11, 15,  28,  38,  43,  52,  58,  102,  106, 
T07,  109,  118,  120,  151,  170,  176,  179,  184,  185,  194,215,240,  273,292, 
295.  302,  339.  341.  345,  349,  368,  390.  393,  404,  405,410,4",  4i4,  434, 
438,441,  494,  496,  521,  523.  524,  566.  567,  585,  595,  599,  604,611,  623. 
624,  625. 

Beecher,  Lyman,  D.  D.,(Conn.,  1775-).     162,  479. 

Bentley,  Richard,  (Eng.,  1662-1742).     511. 

BERKELEY.Bp.  George,  (Ire.,  1684-1753).     445. 

Bernard,  St.,  (France,  1091-1153).     98,  213,  214,  329.  395,398. 

Berridge.  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1716-1793).     334,  480. 

Bethune,  Geo.  W.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1805-1862).     54. 

Beveridge,  Bp.  W.,  (Eng.,  1638-1708).     121. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  629 


Bible.  15,  25,  27,  33,  36,  39,  40,  53. 58,  61,  65,  69,  78,  87,  90, 91,  92,  136, 
154.  155.  161,163,  167,  208,  210,  235,  271,298,  302,304,  312,331,  348, 
397,  407,  411,  424,  427,  434,  471,  475,  554.  588,  610,  613,  614. 

BiCKERSTETH,  Rev.  E.  H.,(Eng.,  1825-).     370,534- 

BiNNEY,  Rev.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1800-).     469,  585. 

Blair,  Hugh,  D.  D.,  (Scot.,  1718-1S00).  4,  109,  175,  242,  345,  386,  420, 
4S1,  493,  495,  501,  550. 

Blackie,  Prof.  J.  S.,  (Scot.,  1809-).     440. 

Blessington,  Lady  Margaret,  (Ire.,  1789-1849).     499. 

Boardman,  Geo.  D.,  D.  D.,  (Ainer.).     i,  7,  368. 

BoARDMAN,  H.  A.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     39,  190. 

Bonaparte,  Napoleon,  (Corsica,  1769-1821).     64,  419,  423,  441. 

BoNAR,  Horatius,  D.  D..  (Scot.,  1808-).     7,  93,  125,  206,  308,  399,  434,  5", 

538,  553, 555- 
Bonneval,  Jacques.    18. 

Book  of  Common  Prayer.     14,  74,  436,  441,  467,  552,  553,  565. 
Borgia,  Csesar,  (Italy,  1457-1507).     176. 
BoRTHWiCK,  Jane,  (Scot.>  1825-).     84,   518. 
Boston,  Rev.  Thomas,  (Scot.,  1676-1732).     207,  212. 
BovEE,  C.  N.,  (1820-),     205,  244,  365. 
Bowman,  Hetty.    120,  432,  595. 
BowRiNG,  Sir  John,  (Eng.,  1792-1872).      171,272. 

Boyd,  Rev.  A.  H.  K.,  (Country  Parson)  (Scot.,  1825-).     22,  194,  233,  401. 
Brackett,  Anna  C,  (Mass.,  1836-).     271. 
Broadus,  John  A..  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     4S2. 
Brooks,  Rev.  Phillips,  (Amer.,  1835-).     11,  23,59,88,  108,  165,  193,  217, 

381,  383,  415,  457,  458,  476,  477,  478,  4S0,  560. 
Brooks,  Rev.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1608-1680).     9,  12, 16,  81,  95,  127,  171.  193, 

221,  230,  245,  294,  365,  391,  395,  409,  435,  458,   462,  464,  471,  473, 

486,  523,  531,  532,  537.  547.  551,  589. 
Brougham,  Ld.,  (Eng.,  1779-1871).     261,  274,  295,  366. 
Brown,  Helen  M.     131. 

Browne,  Sir  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1605-1682).     25,  330. 
Browning,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  (Eng.,  1807-1861).     49,  183,  247,  444,  514,516, 

557,  602. 
Browning,  F.  G.     514. 
Browning,  Robert,  (Eng.,  1812-).    474. 
Bruyere,  Jean  de  la,  (France,  1646-1696).     24,  623. 
Bryant,  W.  C,  (Amer.,  1794-1880).     353. 
BucHAN,  Earl  of,  (Scot.,  1742-1829).     156. 


630  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

BiJCHSEL,  (Germany).     239. 

BuFFON,  Georges  Louis,  Comte  de,  (France,  1707-1788).     444. 

BuiAVER,  see  Edward  Bulvver  Lytton. 

BuNYAN,  John,  (Eng.,  1628-1688).    154,  191,  233,  333,  334,  341,  46S,  484, 

577- 

Burke,  Edmund,  (Ireland,  1730-1797).     188,  261,  379,423,497. 

BURKITT,  William,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,   1650-1703).     435,  465. 

Burgh,  James,  (Scot.,  1714-1775).      10. 

BuRNHAM,  Rev.  Rich. ,  (1749-1S10).     86. 

Burns,  Robt. .  (Scot.,  1759-1796).     186. 

Burr,  E.  F.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     35,  182,  389,  608. 

Burton,  Rev.  Robt.,  (Eng.,  1576-1640).      157,  377,  522. 

BusHNELL,  Horace,  D.  D.,  (Conn.,  1S02-).  5,  39,45,  56,  59,60,70,  80, 
85,  86,  89,  90,  106,  123,  132,  133,  140,  149,  156,  164,  199,  202,  212, 
226,  232,  235,  237,  250,  275,  281,  288,  297,  307,  350,  355,  387,  388, 
431,442,443,  488,489,  498,  500,  510,  519,  549,  551,  559,  575,  576, 
586,  598,  601,  609,  612. 

Butler,  Bishop  Joseph,  (Eng. ,  1692-1752).     437. 

Butts,  Mrs.  M.  F.     399. 

Byron,  Ld.  George  Gordon  Noel,  (Eng.,  1788-1824).     213. 

Caird,  John,  D    D.,  (Scot.,  1S22-).     495,  497,  523. 

Calvin,  Rev.  John,  (Switz.,  1509-1564).     157. 

Campbell,  Emma.     89. 

Campbell,  Thomas,  (Scot.,  1777-1844).     328. 

Cary,  Alice,  (Ohio,  1820-1871).     129. 

Cary,  Phoebe,  (Ohio,  1824-1871).     596. 

Carpenter,  W.  B.,  M.  D., (Eng.,  1812-).     530. 

Carlyle,  J.  D.,  (Eng.,  1759-1804).     460. 

Carlyle.  Thomas,  (Scot.,  1795-1881).     2,  6,  8,48,203,204,367,402,451, 

479,  504,  505,  561,  617. 
Cato,  Marcus  Porcius,  (Italy,  95  B.  C).     215, 
Cecil,  Rev   Rich.,  (Eng.,  1748-1810).      4,  9,  31,  32,   128,    197,  214,   245, 

246,  249,  264,  31S,  324,  332,  345,  348,  394,  422,  423,  435,  471,  490,494, 

501,  537-  549.  585.  598. 
Cervantes,  Saavedra  Miguel,  (Spain,   1547-1616).     363. 
Chalmers,  Thomas,   D.  D.,  (Scot.,   1780-1847).     83,  180,186,   243,  317, 

31S,  331,  438,  497,  573,  584,  602,  619. 
Chambers,  Talbot  W.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     492,  546. 
Channing,  W.  E.,  D.  D.,  (Amer..  1780-1842).     12,  17,60,  61,  62,  66,  85, 

201,  210,  239,  277,  299,  317,  385,   420,  440,   449,  454,  481,  483,  493, 

495.  49S,  533.  536.  551.  55S,  559.  610,  614. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  G31 

Chapin,  E.  H.,  D.  D.,  (N.  Y.,  1S14-1S80).     6,  20,  66, 143,  160,  251,  286, 

323,  439,  450,  484,  531,  567,  584. 
Chapone,  Hester,  (Eng. ,  1727-1S01).     363. 
Charlemagne,  (France,  742-814).  .  320. 
Chateaubriand,  Francois,   Auguste  de,  (France,  1768-1848).     ig,   134, 

33S.  35S,  421. 
Cheever,  Geo.  B.,  D.  D„  (Maine.  1S07-).     486,  536. 
Child,  Mrs.  L.  M.,(Mass. ,  1802-1880).     47,49. 
Choate,  Rufus,  (Amer.,  1799-1859).     481,482. 
Christian  Advocate,  The.     324,  463. 
Christian  at  Work,  The.     121,625. 
Christian  Intelligencer,  The.    463. 
Christian  Union,  The.     324. 
Christlieb,  Theodor,  Prof.,  (Germany).  137,  316. 
Chrysostom,  John,  (Turkey,  347-407).     98,  329,  353,  459. 
Cicero,  Marcus  TuUius,  (Rome,  106  B.  C.-43  B.  C).     438,  562,  573. 
Clarke,  Adam,  LL.D.,  (Ireland,   1762-1832).     3,  178. 
Clarke,  J.  F.,  D.  D.,  (N.  H.,  1810-).     106,  121,  166,  167,  202,222,  287, 

328,  387,  416,  447,  534,  536,  563,  565,  566,  583. 
Clark,  J.  K.     517. 

Clark,  R.  W.,  D,  D.,  (Amer.,  1813-).     524. 
Clark,  Bishop  T.  M.,  (Amer.,  1812-).    145,368. 
Clement  of  Alexandria,  (Athens,  150-220).     104. 
Clough,  a.  H.,  (Eng.,  1819-1861).     247. 
Cobb,  Henry  N.     586. 
Cobden,  Rich.,  (Eng.,  1804-1865).     503. 
Coleridge,  Hartley,  (Eng. ,  1796-1849).    461. 
Coleridge.  S.  T.,  (Eng.,  1772-1S34).     23,  33,  183,  219,  235,  295,  463,487, 

488,  494,  581. 
Collier,  Rev.  Jeremy,  (Eng.,  1650-1726).     605. 
Collyer,  Rev.  Robert,  (Eng.,  1823-).     19,218. 
Colton,  Rev.  C.  C,  (Eng., -1832).     6,  14,23,  41,161,180,253,486,503 

511,582. 
Conder,  Josiah,  (Eng.,  1789-1855).     274. 
Confucius,  (China,  550  B.  C).     46,  442. 
Cook,  Rev.  Joseph,  (N.  Y.).     40,  148,  447,  484. 
Cooper,  George,  (N.  Y.).     169. 

CowpER,  William,  (Eng.,  1731-1800).     279,  377,  393,  409,  437,  617. 
Craik,  Mrs.  D.  M.,  (Eng.,  1826-).     203,  249,  270,  394. 
Cranch,  C.  p.,  (Amer.,  1813-).     439  g. 


632  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Croly,  Geo.,  (Ire.,  1 780-1860).     172,  444. 

Cromwell,  Oliver,  (Eng.,  1599-1659).    426. 

CuDWORTH,  Ralph,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1617-1688).      16,  549,  604. 

Gumming,  John,  D.  D.,  (Scot.,  1810-),     350,623. 

CuMMiNGS,  Jos.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1817-).     561. 

Curtis,  Geo.  W.,  (Amer.,  1S24-).     403. 

Curtis,  Susan  O.     170. 

CuYLER,  T.  L.,  D.  D.,  (N.  Y.,  1822-).     8,21,  26,  50,  66,  89,  102,  115,116, 

125,  145,  149,  151,  155,  159,  162,  163,  164,  184,  186,  189,  225,  227,  229, 

234,  236,  239,  244,  251,  264,  303,   307,  346,  351,  355,  376.433,  435. 

449,  456,471,  474,  475,  477,   503,  507,  516,  521,  554,  562,  572,  575: 

585,  586,  5S7,  592,  594,  598,  619,  622,  623. 
Cyprian,  St.,  (Carthage,  200-258).     460. 

Daggett,  Bp.  David  S.    77,  211,  490, 

Dale,  Rev.  R.  W.,  (Eng.).     357. 

Dana,  Prof.  J.  D.,  (Amer.,  1S13-).     35. 

Daniels,  Rev.  W.  H.,  (Amer.).     230,  234. 

Dare,  Rev.  Jos.    259,  285,  421,  422. 

Darling,  Henry,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     152,  234,  507. 

DAubigne,  Rev.  Merle,  (Switz.,  1794-1873).     141. 

Davies,  Rev.  J.  Llewellyn.    138. 

Davis,  Wesley  R.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).    393. 

Davy,  Sir  Humphrey,  (Eng.,  1778-1829).     241,  363. 

Dawson,  Prin.  J.  W.      461. 

Decker,  Thomas,  (Eng.,-1639).     443. 

Deems,  Charles  P.,  D.  D.,  (Md.,  1820-).     20,  55. 

Demosthenes,  (Athens,  385  B.  C.-322  B.  C).     455. 

Derzhavin,  Gabriel  Romanovitch,  (Russia,  1743-1816).     283. 

Dickens,  Charles,  (Eng.,  1812-1870).     143,  524. 

Dickson,  Rev.  Alex.,  (Amer.).     71,  183,  280,  326,  356,  442,  555,  569. 

Dickson,  David,  D.  D.,  (Scot.,  1583-1663).    233. 

Doane,  Bp.  G.  W.,  (Amer.,  1799-1859).     177. 

Doane,  Bp.  W.  C,  (Amer.).     109,  208,  426,  588. 

Dodge,  Mar}'  Mapes,  (Amer.).     287. 

Doddridge,  Rev.  Philip,  (Eng.,  1702-1751).     262,  300,343,397. 

Donne,   John,  D.  D.,(Eng..  1573-1631).  191. 

Dorr,  Julia  C.  R.,  (S.  C,  1825-).     455. 

Douglas,  Geo.    337. 

Dryden,  John,  (Eng.,  1631-1700).     392 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS  633 


Dunning,  Rev.  A.  E.,  (Amer.).     352. 

DwiGHT,  Timothy,  D.  D.,  (Mass.,  1752-1817).     29,  273,  275 

Dyer,  John.  (Eng  ,  1700-175S).     88. 

EcoB,  J.  H.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).   428. 

Eddy,  T.  M.,  D.  D.,  (Amer., -1879).     433,  455. 

Edgeworth,  Maria,  (Eng.,  1767-1849).     161. 

Edmeston,  James,  (Eng,,  1791-1867).     475. 

Edwards,  Jonathan,   D.  D.,  (Conn.,  1703-175S).     67,106,  119,332,   304, 

331,  360,  396,  489,  492,  494,  509,  538,  540,  541,  542,  619. 
Edwards,  Tryon,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1809-).     203. 
Eggleston,  Rev.  E  ,  (Amer.).     49. 
Eliot,  George,  see  Mrs.  Lewes. 
Elizabeth,  Queen,  (Eng.,  1533-1603).     622. 
Elliott,  Charlotte,  (Eng.,  1789-1871).     loi,  231,  615. 
Elliott,  C.  W.,   (Amer.).     65. 
Elven,  Rev.  Cornelius,  (1797-).     510. 

Emerson,  R.  W.,(Mass.,  1S03-1882).    208,353,412,456,477,  544,559,604. 
Emmons,  Nathaniel,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1745-1840).     i,  348,  4S1,  484,532. 
Epictetus,  (Rome,  50-).      560. 

Erskine,  Thomas,  (Scot.,  1748-1823).     32,  229,  541,618. 
Eusebius,  Bp.  Pamphili,  (Turkey,  270-340).     103. 
Everett,  Edward,  (Mass  ,  1794-1865).     140,  141,  352. 

Faber,  Rev.  F.  W.,  (Eng.,  1814-1863).     44,  99,  215,  238,  260,  314,  363,  369, 

386,  545,  567. 
Fairbairn,  Rev.  A.  M.    426,  436. 
Faraday,  Michael,  (Eng.,  1794-1867).     428. 
Farel,  Wm.,  (France,  1489-1565).     409. 
Farrar,  Rev.  F.  W.,  (Eng.).     113,  574. 

Feltham,  Owen,  (Eng.,  1608-1678).     180,  333,406,  434,  535. 
Fenelon,  Arch.  FranQois,  (France,  1651-1715).     43,48,  60,  12S,  151,  159, 

169,  170,  185,  192,  193,203,  206,240,248,  249,  262,  264,  269,  270,271, 

276,  280,  281,  283,  317,  333,  334,  396,  399,  407,  416, 446,  457,  458,  465, 

466,  479,  534,  537,  540,  542,  543,  544,  545,  559,  565,  566,  577,  578,  5S2, 

583,  584,  59S,  599,  600,  601. 
Fielding,  Henry,  (Eng.,  1707-1754).     24. 
Fisher's  Catechism.     7,  16,  34,  167,  236,  375,  508,  547. 
Flavel,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1627-1691).     7,  85,  92,  152,  158,  166,  226,  228, 

236,  255,  280,  315,  319,  320,  329,  375,  390,  398,  476,  488,  559,  560,  578, 

607,  608. 


634  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Fleming,  Paul,  (Ger.,  1609-1640).     24S. 

Foss,  Bp.  C.  D.,  (N.  Y.,  1834-).     132,  489,  570. 

Foster,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1770-1843).     38,  487. 

Foster,  Bp.  R.  S.,  (Amer.,  1820-).     179,  184,212,239,  258,  291,300,  305, 

306,  308,  337,  33S,  519. 
FoRSYTHE,  Rev.  Wm.     85. 

Fowler,  C.  H.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1S37-J.    137,  217,  417,  476,  537,  564. 
Franck,  Johann,  (Ger.,  1618-1677).      loi. 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  (Amer.,  1706-1790).     283,  381,  485,  582. 
French,  J.  Clement,  D.   D.     571. 
Froude,  J.  A.,  (Eng.,  1S18-).     62,  156,  27S,  419,  534. 
Fry,  Mrs.  Caroline.    548. 

Fuller,  Rev,  Andrew,  (Eng.,  1754-1815).     552. 
Fuller,  Rich.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1808-).     6,  12,20,  45,  71,   73,   79,  95,  96, 

97,  103,  117,  126,  131,  173,  189,  198,  225,  233,  245,  246,  261,  311,  314, 

316,  356,  359,  360,  496,  508,  543,  549,  550,  623. 
Fuller,  Thomas,  D.  D. ,  (Eng.,  1608-1661).     49,  3S6,  470,  579. 

Garfield,  J.  A.,  (Ohio,  1831-1S81).     124,  310,  595,  620. 

Garrett,  Edward,  (Eng.).     388,  448,  462. 

Gates,  Rev.  D.  W.,  (Amer.).       452. 

Gay,  John,  (Eng.,  1688- 1732).     4S6. 

Geikie,  J.  C,  D.  D.,  (Scot.).      42,  46,  59,  73,  74,  76  b,  387,424,  516,  6ot, 

Gerhardt,  Paul,  (Ger.,  1606-1676).     400. 

GiFFORD,  Rev.  O.  P.,  (Amer.).     25S,  533. 

Giles,  Henry,  (Ire.,  1809-).     2,  33,  41,  45,  47,  107,  Ii8,"i2i,  140,  160,  287, 

297,  369.  376,  378,  379.    384,  424.  427,    438,  445,   487.  573.  582,  586, 

613. 
Gilpin,  Bernard,  (Eng.,   1517-1583).      187. 
Gladden,  Rev.  W.,  (Amer.,  1836-).     17,  98,  124,  135,  146,  152,  155,  200, 

250,  300  f,  528,  552,  594. 
Godet,  Prof.    F.,  (Holland).     402. 
Godwin,  Eliz.  A.  E.,  (Eng.).     508. 
Godwin,  Parke,  (Amer.,  1816-).     48. 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von,  (Ger.,  1749-1S32).     223,  515. 
Goldsmith,  Oliver,  (Ire.,  1728-1774).     24,    215. 
Goodell,  Rev.  Wm.,  (Amer.).     11,   497. 
GOODSELL,  Rev.  D.  A.,  (Amer.).     413,415. 
Goodwin,  T.,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,   1600-1679).     78. 
Gordon,  Rev.  A.  J.,  (Amer.).     194,   396,   555. 
Gough,  John  B.,  (Eng.,  1817-).  17,  37,  46,  208    217,  561. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  635 

GOVVAND,  C.       561. 

Grant,  Sir  Robt.,  (Scot.,  1785-1S38).     75. 

Greenwell,  Dora,  (Eng. ,  1822-).     88. 

Griffin,  E.  D.,  D.  D.,(Conn.,  1770-1837).     gg,  358. 

Grout,  Henry  N.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     371. 

Guesses  at  Truth.     65,  400,  434.  44g,  504,  543,  607,  20,  194,  200. 

GuizoT,  Francois   Pierre  Guillaume,  (France,  1787-1874).     141,  209. 

Gurney,  J.  H.,  (Eng.,  1802-1862).      173. 

Gurney,  J.  J.,  (Eng.,  1788-1847).     213. 

Guthrie,  Thomas,  D.  D.,  (Scot.,  1803-).     118,  128,  ig2,  218,  256,  273,  285, 

427,  429,  510,  546,  563,  5g2,  598. 
GuYON,  Madame,  (France,  1648-1717).     193,  194,  240,  297,  542,  543,  544. 
GuYSE,  Dr.  John,  (Eng.,   1689-1761).     362. 

Hale,  Rev.  E.  E.,  (Amer.,  1822).     150. 

Hale,  Sir  Mattliew,  (Eng.,  1609-1676).     526. 

Hale,  Mrs.  S.  J.  524. 

Hall,  Harvie.     304. 

Hall,  John,  D.  D.,    44,  70,  144,    146,  147,  214,  247,  316,  320,  411,  413, 

414,  475,  477.478,  479,  483,  580. 
Hall,  Bp.  Jos.,  (Eng.,  1574-1656).     14,  43,  339,  345,  366,  406,   461,  532. 
Hall,  Newman,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1816-).     205,  473. 
Hall,  Rev.  Robt.,  (Eng.,  1764-1831).     10,  30,  35,  121,137,  212.  219,  241, 

254,  300,  306. 
Hall's  Family  Prayers.    512. 
Halsey,  Rev.  L.  J.     31. 
Hamilton,  A.  E.    238. 
Hamilton,  James,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1814-1871).     30,  32,  36,  48,  50,   58,  64, 

74,  77,  83,  84,  86,  88,  go,  gi,  g2,  99,  100,  103,  112,  172,  175,  177,  181, 

182,183,185,195,196,   240,  250,253,  263,   268,   289,311,   321,   325, 

326,  330,  331,  335,  342,  407,  453    515,  518,  525,   526,   528,  54S,   554, 

558,  5Sg,  596,  600,  610,  614. 
Hamilton,  Sir  William,  (Scot.,  1788-1856).     573. 
Harbaugh,  Rev.  Henry,  (Amer.,  1818-1867).     160. 
Harris,  Bp.  Wm.,  (Amer.).     271. 
Haven,  E.  O.,  D.  D.,  (Mass.,  1S20-).     134. 
Haven,  Bp.  Gilbert,  (Amer).     365. 
Havergal,  F.  R.,  (Eng.,  1837-1879).     10,  159,   195,  251,  377,  398,  399, 

447,  513.  515.  561,  587.  599,  610. 
Hawthorne,  Nathaniel,  (Mass.,  1804-1864).     183,  336,  351,  477. 


636  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Headley,  Rev.  J.  T.,  (Amer.,  1814-).     556. 

Heber,  Bp.  Reginald,  (Eng.,  1783-1826).   189,  213,445,   547.  55°- 

Hecker,  Rev.  I.  T.  385,  494,  499. 

Hegeman,  Mrs.  Anna  B.,  (Amer.).     362. 

Heidelberg  Catechism.    81,  223,  618. 

Heine,  Heihrich,  (Ger.,  1799-1856).     603. 

Helps,  Sir  Arthur,  (Eng.,  i8t8-).     296,  539. 

Hemans,  Mrs  F.  D.,(Eng.,  1794-1835).     176,  253. 

Henry,  Rev.  Matthew,  (Eng.,  1662-1714).     9,   148,  241,   2S0,  281,  336, 

445,502,  521,  528,  535. 
Henry,  Patrick,  (Vir.,  1736-1799).     496. 
Henry,  Rev.  Philip,  (Eng.,  1631-1696).     189. 
Herbert,  Rev.  George,  (Wales,  1593-1632).     128,  200,   242,   352,  364, 

525,   604. 
Herder,  Rev.  J.  G.,  (Ger  ,  1744-1803).     54. 
Herrick,  Rev.  Robert,  (Eng.,  1591-1674).     577. 
Herrick,  S.  E.     120. 
Hervey,  E.  L.    395. 
Hill,  Rev.  Rowland,  (Eng.,  1744-1833).     45,90,  188,  217,  269,  457,  470, 

550, 600,621. 
Hippocrates,  (Cos.,  460  B.  C.-).     384. 
Hobart,  Mrs.  C.     597. 
Hodge,  A.  A.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     56. 

Hodge,  Charles,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1797-1878).     35,  87,  122,  227,  334. 
Hole,  S.  R.     500. 
Holland,  J.  G.,  M.  D.,  (Mass.,  1819-1882).     15,  25,26,27,  36,42,  47, 

114,  115,  143,  147,  166,  168,   185,  218,  279.  290,  296,  324,  325,  349, 

357,  367,  380,  393.  394.   404.  454.   497.   503,  505.  543,  564,  577,   580, 

6o6d,  616,  410. 
Holmes,  J.  McC,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     iii,  112,  118, 165,  i83,  194,  20S,  216, 

299,  312,  402,  556,  562. 
Holmes,  O.  W.,  M.   D.,  (Amer.,  1809-).     27,  179,  380,  531.596- 
Holt,  Mrs.  N.  A.    265. 

Hooker,  Rev.  Rich.,  (Eng.,  1553-1600).      52,  374. 
Hopkins,  Bp.  Ezekiel,  (Eng.,  1633-1690).     442. 
Hopkins,  Mark,  D.   D..  (Amer.,  1802-).     5,45,53,  61,64,  71,  loS,   113, 

132,  133.  135.  139.    140,  146,  172,  187,  225,  238,  284,  312,  348,  393 

403  418,  498,  504,  535,  560. 
Horne,  Bp.  Geo.,  (Eng.,  1730-1792).     7,  480,  583. 
Howe,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1630-1706).     495. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  fi87 

HowiTT,  Wm.,  (Eng.,  1795-).     60. 

HoYT,  Wayland,  D.  D.,    (Eng.).       97,  389,  470,  572. 

Hughes,  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1823-).     55,  80,  405,  6o6f. 

Hugo,  Victor,  (France,  1802-).     284,  339. 

HuLBURD,  Rev.  M.,  (Amer.).     255. 

Humboldt,  Karl  Wilhelm,  (Ger.,  1767-1835).     44,  192,  297,  404,  513. 

HuMPSTONE,  Rev.  John,    (Eng.).      385. 

Huntington,  Bp.  F.  D.,  (Amer.,  1819-).     135,  145,  237,  314,322,  341, 344, 

418. 
Huntingdon,  Geo.     14. 

Huntingdon,  Lady,  (Eng.,  1707-1791).     399. 
HuRD,  Bp.  Rich.,  (Eng.,  1720-1808).     74,624. 

IDE,  G.  B.,  D.  D.     527. 

Independent,  The.     187. 

Ingelow,  Jean,  (Eng.,  1825-).     474,  557. 

Irving,  Washington,  (N.  Y.,  17S3-1859).     143,  243,  292,  455,  557. 

Jackson,  Mrs.  H.  F.,  (Mass.,  1831-).     254,  597. 

Jacobus  de  Benedictis,  (Italy,  -1306).     172. 

James,  John,  D.  D.,  (Scot.).     224.  226,  227. 

James,  John  Angel,  (Ire.,  1785-1859).    64,  69,  115,  116,  121, 126,  150,  192, 

241,  314,  315,  362,  366,  380,  470,472.  478,  524,  554,  564,  565. 
James,  William,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     225. 
Jameson,  Mrs.  Anna,  (Eng.,  1797-1S60).     20,48. 
Janes,  Bp.  E.  S.,  (Mass.,  1807-1876).     589. 
Jeffrey,  Francis,   (Scot.,  1773-1850).     381. 
Jerome,  St.,  (Turkey,  340-420).     33,  345. 
Jerrold,  Douglas,  (Eng. ,  1803-1857).     257. 
Johnson,  Herrick,  D.    D.,  (Amer.).     29,  31,  38,  57,  70,  72,  132,  135,  173, 

211,  288,  343,  355.  453,  475,  490,  521,  560,  617,  618,  622. 
Johnson,  Samuel,  LL  D.,  (Eng.,  1709-1784).     25,  242,  257,  296,  335,  336, 

349,411,613. 
Jones,  Wm.,  of  Nayland,  (Eng.,  1726-1800).     275. 
Jones,  Sir  W.,  (Eng.,  1746-1794.).     31,  564. 
Jonson,  Ben,    (Eng.,  1573-1637).     43,  311. 
Jortin,  John,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1698-1770).     293. 
Joubert,  Jos.,  (France,  1 754-1824).     22,  49,-  51,  200,  425,  504. 
Jowett,  Prof., (Amer.).     195. 
Justinian,  Flavius  Ancius,  (Turkey,  483-565).     361. 


638  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Keble,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,    1790-1866).     90,  1S2,  361. 

Keith,  George.     593. 

Kemble,  John,  (Eng.,  1757-1823).     40. 

Kempis,  Thomas  a.,  (Ger.,  1379-1471).      37,  62,  124,  261,  293,  361,  365, 

372,  442,  515,  536,  545,  548,  578. 
Kepler,  Johann,  (Ger.,  1571-1630).     276. 
King,  Henry  M.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).  377. 
KiNGSLEY,  Rev.  Charles,  (Eng.,  1819-).    41,  72,  78,  84,  147,171, 198,209, 

230, 257,  262,  263,  265,  26S,  276,  279,  286,  287, 377,  387,  405,  443,  456, 

492,  529,  539,  545,  587,  593,  605. 
A.  H.  K.     10,  27,  278,  304,  305,  315,  395,  396,  439,  444,  557,  446. 
KiNNOUL,  Thomas,  Earl  of.     75. 

Kirk,  E.  N.,  D.  D.,(Amer.,  1802-1874).     38,  258,  271,  411,  607. 
KiTTREDGE,  A.  E. ,  D.  D.,(Amer.).     22,  32,  35,  39,  51,  54,69,  78,  87,  93, 

94,  128,  144,  147,  149.  155.174,  234,324,  326,  327,  371,  372,374,416, 

437,  441,  442,  555,  600,  609. 
Knox,  Alex.,  (1831-).     96 
Knox,  Rev.  John,  (Scot.,  1505-1572).     208. 
Koran.     619. 

Kossuth,  Louis,  (Hungar}^  1802-).     278. 
Krummacher,   F.  W.,  D.  D.,  (Ger.,  1796-1868).     613. 

La  Combe,  Pierre,  (France).      329,  464. 

Lacordaire,  Jean  Baptiste  Henri,  (France,  1802-1861).     611. 

Ladies'  Repository,  383. 

Lanahan,  John,  D.  D.,  284,  389,  410,  425,  426,  611. 

Landor,  W.  S.,  (Eng.,  1775-1864).     8,  12,  33. 

Laplace,  Pierre  Simon,  (France,  1749-1827).     603. 

Latimer,  Bp.  Hugh,  (Eng.,  1472-1555).    395. 

Lavater,  J.  C,  (Svvitz.,  1741-1801).     4,  13,  26,  200,  246. 

Lawrence,  Amos,  (Amer.,  1786-1852).     521. 

Lee,  Ann,  (Eng.,  1736-1784).     383. 

Lee,  Holme,  161. 

Leighton,  Arch.  Robt.,  (Scot.,  1611-1684).     51,401,  449. 

Lewes,  Mrs.  G.  H.,  (George  Eliot),  (Eng.,  1820-).    198,  219,  393,443,  44S, 

454,  466,  550,  563,  678. 
Lewis,  Taylor,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1802-1877).     546. 
Liddon,  Cannon,  H.  P.,  (Eng.,  1830-).     i,  3,4,91,92,  126,  136,  138,  201, 

209,  210.  366,  384,  457,  458,  512,  522,  533,  547- 
Lincoln,  Abraham,  (Ken.,  1809-1865).     48,  221,  468. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  639 

Lincoln,  Prof.  Heman,  (Amer.).     162. 

Liturgy  of  Reformed  Church.    370. 

Livingstone,  Rev.  David,  (Scot.,  1817-).     419. 

Lloyd,  Rev.  W.  F.,  (1791-1853).     loi. 

Locke,  John,  (Eng,,  1632-1704).     419,  507. 

LONGFELLOM?,  H.  W.,   (Maine,  1807-1882).      8,  9,  107,  203,  278,  309,  380, 

387,  394,  419.  436.  525.  593- 
Longfellow,  Marian,  (Maine,  1849-).   5^9- 
Longfellow,  Rev.  Samuel,  (Maine).     544. 
Lope  de  Vega,  (Spain,  1562-1635).     89. 
LoRiMER,  Geo.  C,  D.  D.,    (Amer.).      26,  27,  57,  125,  147,  169,  188,204, 

247,  267,  282,  505.  506,  517,  557,  589,  621. 
Louisa  Henrietta,  Electress  of  Brandenburg.    519. 
Lowell,  J-  R.,  (Mass.,  1819-).     353. 
Loyola,  Ignatius,  (Spain,  1491-1556).     599. 
Luther,  Martin,   (Saxony,    1483-1546).       178,    186,   203,  220,  221,   224, 

241,278,289,320,  375,    377,  409,  433,   434,  468,  518,   523,  526,  545, 

603. 
Lutheran  Evangelical  Catechism.     223, 
Lynch,  Bishop  John.     481. 

Lyon,  Mary,  (Amer.,  1797-1849).     201,  249,  444,  533. 
Lyte,  Rev.  H.  F.,  (Eng.,  1793-1847),     5,  49,  276,  329,  594. 
Lyttleton,  Rev.  W.  H.   255. 
Lytton,  Sir  Edward  Buhver,  (Eng.,  1805-).     53,  299,  602. 

Macaulay,  T.  B.,  (Eng.,  1800-1859).     34. 

McCheyne,  Rev.  Robert   M.,  (Scot.,    1813-1843).     31,39,94,   loi,    153, 

155,  299,  449,  590,  609. 
McCosh,  James,  D.  D.,  (Ire.,  1810-).     58,  66,   139,   216,    329,  330,  420 

429,  485. 
Macdonald,  John.     472. 
MacDonald,  Geo.,    (Scot.,  1825-).     8,  95, 122,  148,  152.   199,  250,  257, 

285,  286,  294,  327,  369,  382,  384,  434,  439,  461,  464,  479,    501,  511, 

524,  603,  624. 
Macduff,   Rev.   J.  R. ,   (Scot.,   1820-).     46,66,159,230,256,283,431, 

601. 

Mackay,    Rev.  W.    P.    81,  125,    153,   230,  232,  246,  319,  337,  344,  375, 
491. 

MACLEOD,  Norman   D.  D.,(Scot.,  1812-1872).     123,  266,  473. 
Macmillan,  Hugh,  D.  D.     558. 


640  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Maclaren,  Alex.,  D.  D.  i,  ii,  i7>  42,  43,  56.  58,66,  68,  71,  78,  80,  82, 
85,  88,  96  d,  100,  104,  107,  108.  109,  no,  116,  120,  124,  127,  131,  153, 
158,  160,  171,  17S,  180,  184,  187,  207,  212,  220,225,  228,  229,  230,  235. 
237,  239,  240,  244,  24B,  259,  260,  263,  272,  273,  277,  290,  291,292,  294, 
301,  303,  307,  308,  317,  329,  340,  354,  355,  356,  360,  365,  368,  369.  373, 
376,  381,  382,  388  a.  f.,  389,  390,  391  e,  397,  398,  400,  405,  408,  412, 
424,  429,  432,  448,  452,  461,  488,  490,491,  493,  496,  526,  533,  539,  54S, 
559>  576,  5S0,  584,  587,  588,  589,  590,  599,  600,  607,  608,  610,  615,  619. 

Madison,  James,  (Amer.,  1751-1836).     614. 

Magee,  Arch.  W.,  (Ire.,  1765-1831).      132. 

Magoon,  E.  L.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).  2,  6, 13, 14,  160,  205,  252,  253,  292,  345, 
346,  347,  354,  357.450.  451,  469,  476,  494,  515,  520,  554,  604,  612. 

Mandeville,  Henry,  D.  D.,(Amer.).     222. 

Mann,  Horace,  (Mass.,  1796-1859).     2,  3.  130,256,297. 

Manning,  Arch.  H.  E.  356,456. 

Mansfield,  Lord,  (Scot.,  1704-1793).     379. 

Martineau,  James,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1807-).  8,  15,  59,  61,  70,  97, 160,  281, 
321,  351,  373,  382,  409,  431,  456,  466,  504,  505,  535,  537,  592,  596,  602. 

Martyr,  Justin,  (Palestine,  105-165).     207. 

Massillon,  Jean  Baptiste,  (France,  1663-1742).     5,257,  348. 

Massinger,  Philip,  (Eng.,  1854-1640).     48. 

Mason,  J.  M.,  D.  D.,  (N.  Y.,  1770-1829).    86,  150,  471,  534,  554,  625. 

Matthews,  Albert.    315. 

Maturin,  Rev.  C.  R.,  (Ire.,  1782-1825).     384. 

Maudsley,  Henry,  M.  D.,  (Eng.,  1835-).     333. 

Melanchthon,   Philip,  (Ger..  1497-1568).     466. 

Melvill,  Rev.  Henry,  (Eng.,  1798-1871).  36,  86,  loi,  181,  225,  231,294, 
305,  317,  327, 340, 342,  344,  359.  364, 422,  423, 456,  4S8,  506,  527,  528  e, 
529.  547- 

Menander,  (Athens,  342  B.  C.-299  B.  C).     167. 

Meredith.  Rev.  R.  R.,  (Amer.).     37. 

Merriam.  Geo.  S.    181. 

Methodist,  The.     530. 

Methodist  Book  of  Discipline.      370,  411. 

Michelet,  Jules,  (France,  1798-1874).  286. 

Mildway,  Rev.  Charles.      255. 

Miller.  Hugh,  (Scot.,  1802-1856).     458. 

Millman,  Dean  H.  H.,  (Eng.,  1791-1868).     94,  180. 

Milton,  John,  (Scot.,  1608-1674).  6,  309,  312,  364,  383,  573,  606,  612, 
617. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  641 

Mitchell,  D.  G.,  (Conn.,  1S22-).     394. 

Montagu,  Rev.  E.  W.     604. 

Montaigne,  Micheleyquem,  (France,  1533-1592;.     48. 

Montesquieu,  Charles  de  Secondat,  (France,  1689-1755).     375,  498,  502. 

Montgomery,  James,  (Scot.,  1771-1854).     173,  177,  322,  359,  460. 

Moody,  D.  L.   3,  14,40.  52,  73.  83,  loi,  145,  148,  152,  153,  154,  162,  164, 

166,  168,  170,  173,  196,  244,  245,  261,  289,  304,  310,  318,  319,  329,340, 

342,  343,  344,  346,  356,  360,  379,  380,391,  420,  446,  447,  506,  507,  532, 

539,  562,  607,  622. 
Moore,  Thomas,  (Ire.,  1 780-1852).     328,  429. 
Moravian  Litany.    467. 

More,  Hannah,  (Eng.,  1745-1833).     8,  348,  406,  458,  555,  568,  583. 
Mori,  (Japanese  Minister  to  AVashington).     34. 
Morris,  Lewis,  (Wales,  1702-1765).     19S. 
Moss,  Lemuel,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     530. 
MouNTFORD,  Rev.  Wm.,  (Eng.).     5,  177,   197,   210,   220,  221,  266,  302, 

306,  310,  32S,  331,  332,  339,  344,  364,380,  381,  385,406,  407,421,  430, 

438,  439,  466,  470,  500,  556,  595,  616,  620. 
Muhlenberg,  Wm.  A.,  D.  D.,  (N.  Y.,  1796-1877;.     505. 
MuMFORD,  T.  J.   131. 

Muller,  Prof.  Max,  (Ger.,  1823-).     287,  288,  337,  562. 
Murray,  John  J.    52c. 
Mylne,  G.  W.    88,  114. 

National  Baptist,  The.     476c 

Neal,  John,  (Amer.).     576. 

Nettleton,  Rev.  Asahel,  (Amer.,  1783-1844).     129,  193. 

Newman,  Cardinal  J.  H.,  (Eng.,  1801-).     265,435. 

Newman,  J.  P.,  D.  D.,(Amer.,  1826  ).     301. 

Newton,  Sir  Isaac,  (Eng.,  1643-1727).     332. 

Newton,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1725-1807).    213,266,281,  462,475,495,502. 

New  York  Observer, The.    298,  483. 

Nisard,  J.  M.,  (France,  1806-).     162. 

Noble,  L.  L.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1812-).     527. 

Norton,  Mrs.  Julia.     291. 

Offord,  Rev.  R.  M.      460,  462,  471. 

Old  Russian  Liturgy.     ir8. 

Owen,  Jchn.D.  D.,  (Eng.   1616-1683).     10,492,  537,  546,552,  588. 

Paley,  Wm.,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1743-1805),     242,  295,  467. 
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643  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Palmer,  Ray,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  180S-).     158,  613. 

Parker,  Jos.,  D.  D.,  (Eng.).     214,  386. 

Parmlee,  Helen  L.,  (Amer.,  -1864).     303. 

Parsons,  Rev.  H.  M.    569,  573. 

Pascal,  Blaise,  (France,  1623-1662).  157, 176,  244,  28S,  297,  403,452,  496. 

Patton,  Francis  L.,  D.  D.    200. 

Paxton,  J.  R.,  D.  D.    267. 

Payson,  Edward,  D.  D.,(N.  H.,  1783-1827).     26,  125,283,335,  464,466, 

472,  513,  579- 
Peabody,  A.  P.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,   1811-).     498. 
Penn,  Wm.,  (Eng.,  1644-1718).     576,  625. 
Pentecost,  Rev.  G.  F.,  (Amer.).     481. 
Pepper,  Prof.  D.  B.     580. 
Perrine,  Rev.  W.  H.    148. 

Pestalozzi,  Johann  Heinrich,  (Switz.,  1745-1827).     581c. 
Petrarch,  Francesco,  (Italy,  1304-1374).     392. 
Phelps,  Austin,  D.  D.,  (Mass.,  1820-).     459,465,  467,478,548. 
Phelps,  S.  D.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     129. 
PiERPONT,  Rev.  John,  (Conn.,  1785-1866).    28. 
Phillips,  Wendell,  (Mass. ,  1811-).     352. 
Pike,  Rev.  J.  G. ,  (Eng.).     174,  372. 
Plato,  (Athens,  429  B.  C.-347  B.  C).     204. 
Pliny,  (Italy,  23-79).     256. 
Plutarch,  (Greece,  50-120).     14,  166. 
Pollock,  Rev.  Robt.,  (Scot.,  1799-1827).     260.  335. 
Pope,  Alexander,  (Eng.,  1688-1744).   184,  258,  298,  328,  429,  440,  605,  616. 
Porter,  Jane,  (Eng.,  1 776-1 850).     29S. 
Porter,  Noah,  (Amer.,  1811-).     133,  502. 
Powers,  Rev.  H.  N.,  (Amer.).     63. 
Pratt,  D.  J.,  Ph.  D.,  (Amer.).     428. 
Prentiss,  Eliz.  Payson,  (Amer.).     119,  250,423,  538,  543>  568,  589,  6031 

615. 
Presbyterian,  The.    112. 
Pressel,  (Ger.).     102. 

Pressense,  Rev.  Edmond  Dihoult  de,  (France,  1824-)      616. 
Preston,  John,  D.  D.,(Eng.,  1587-162S).     304. 
Preston,  Margaret  J.,  (Vir.,  1835-).     87,  407. 
Priest,  N.  A.  W.,  (Amer.,  1834-1870).     28,  305. 
Prime,  S.  Irenaeus,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1812-).  12,  231,  232,  257,  341,  411,  461, 

468,  572. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  643 

Prior,  Matthew,  (Eng.,  1664-1721).     194. 

Proctor,  A.  A.,  (Eng.,  1826-1864).     52,  no,  309,409,  583,  594,  597. 

PuBLius,  Syrius,  (Syria,  80  B.  C).      20. 

PuNSHON,  Wm.  M.,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1823-).     41,  47,67,  in,  114,  130,  131, 

139,  189,  215,  216,  222,  247.  313,  341,  367,  371,  372,  373.374-  38S,  410, 

414,452,453,  501,  519,  579. 

OuARLES,  Francis,  (Eng.,  1592-1644).     25,  47,  353,  436,  485,  509,  609. 
QuESNEL,  Rev.  Pasquier,  (France,  1634-1719).     252. 
QuiNCY,  Josiah,  (Mass.,  1772-1864).     378. 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter,  (Eng.,  1552-1618).      174,  623. 

Reid,  Rev.  J.  M.     279. 

Reynolds,  Sir  Joshua,   (Eng.,  1723-1792).     367. 

Reynolds.  Bp.  Rich.,  (Eng.).     57,  273. 

RiCHTER,  Jean  Paul,  (Ger.,  1763-1825).  19,  59,  105,  213,  238,  313,  366, 
368,416,  556,  568,  5Q7,  620. 

Riddle,  Prof.  M.  B.     80. 

Robertson,  Rev.  F.  W.,  (Eng.  1816-1853).  2,  21,  23,  47,  55,  65,  68,  77, 
87,  93.  96,  104,  no,  III.  112,  117,  119,  120,  138,  153,  175,  182,  193, 
195,  196,  198,  199,  205,  210,  211,  217,  220,  221,  234,  252,  262,  267, 
268,  270,  271,  278,  285,  296,  298,  310,  314,  323,  330,  336,  339,  344,  375, 
378,  394,  400,401,  402,415,  427,432,437,440,447.457,468,478,486, 
506,  508,  510.  516,  517,  522, 523,  524, 533, 538,  540,  545,  574,  591,  604, 
605,  606,  612,  617,  620,  621. 

Robinson,  C.  S.,  D.  D.,  (Amen).     64,  151,  234,  321,  584. 

Robinson,  Rev.  Stuart,  (Amer.).     29. 

Rochefoucauld,  (France,  1613-1680).  336. 

RoMEYN.  T.  B.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     381. 

RoscoE,  Jane.     15. 

RoscoE,  Wm.,  (Eng.,  1753-1831).     353. 

Rousseau,  J.  J.,  (France,  1712-1778).     74. 

RowE,  Elizabeth,  (Eng.,  1674-1737).     231,  272,  433. 

RowE,  Nicholas,  (Eng. ,  T673-1718).     24,407. 

RusKiN,  John,  LL.  D.,  (Eng.,  1819-).  122,  123,  134,  147,  168  g,  170,  198, 
264,  267,  269,  325,  330.  403,  405,  438,  443,  446,  469,  563,  624. 

Rutherford,  Rev.  Samuel,  (Scot.,  1600-1661).  10,  51,  53,  93,  95,  97, 
98,  105,  106,  124,  154,  165,  171,  206,  253,  265,  270,  274,  276,  277, 
294,  300,  309,  346,  416,  444,  513,  516,  530,  594,  620. 

Rutledge,  Bp.  F.  H.     24. 

Ryle,  Rev.  J.  C,  (Eng.,  1816-).     16,  37,  297,  470,  52S,  530,  554,  591. 


044  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Sales,  Francis  de,  (Switz.,  1567-1622).     373. 

Sargent,  Epes,  (Mass.,  1814-1881).     558. 

Saurin,  Rev.  James,  (France,  1677-1730).     270. 

Savile,  Sir  Henry,  (Eng.,  1549-1622).     4S6. 

Savonarola,  (Italy,  1452-149S).     124,378,  481. 

Schiller,  Johann  Christoph  Friedrich,  (Ger.,  1759-1S05).     284. 

Schleirmacher,  Rev.  F.  E.  D.,  (Ger.,  176S-1834).     143. 

ScHMOLKE,  B.,  (Ger.,  1731-).     595. 

Scholefield,  C.  C.   309. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  (Scot.,  1771-1832).     359,404,532,612. 

ScRiVER,  Rev.  Christian,  (Ger.,  1629-1693).     21,  50,83,  94,  100,  134,  161, 

206,  334..  376,  386,  439,  522,  537,  540,  561,620. 
Sears,  E.  H.,  D.  D.,  (Amer..  1810-1876).  177. 
Secker,  Arch.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1693-1768).     251. 
Seelye,  J.  H.,  (Amer.,  1825-).     136,  452. 
Selden,  John,  D.  D.,   (Eng.,  15S4-1654).     29. 

Seneca,  Lucius  Annaeus,  (Rome,  5  B.  C.-65  A.  D.).     209,  292,  576. 
Seward,  W.  H..(N.  Y.,  1801-1S72).     142. 
Sewell,  J.  M.,  (Amer.).     549. 
Shairp,  Prin.   J.    C,  (Scot.).     37,61,127,  156,  168,  195,   269,332,406, 

493.  503,  504.  530,  563.565. 
Shakspeare,   Wm.,    (Eng.,  1564-1616).     7,   12,22,23,46,207,278,279, 

283,  353.  408,  463.  477- 
Shaw,  Henry  W.,  (Amer.).     349. 

Shedd,  Prof.  W.  G.  Y.,  (Amer.,  1820-).     36,  113,267,  349. 
Sheppard,  Prof.     151. 
Sheridan,  R.  B. ,  (Ire.,  1751-1S16).     480. 
Sherlock,  Bp.  Thomas,  (Eng.,  1678-1766).     454,  487. 
Shipton,  Anna,  (Eng.).     246,  247,  362,  397,  474,  535,  568,  596. 
Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  (Eng.,  1554-1586^     to,  47,  581. 
SiGOURNEY,  Mrs.  L.  H,,  (Amer.,  1791-1865).      51,  53,  324. 
SIMMS,  Wm.  G.,  LL.  D.,  (Amer.,  1806-1870).     378. 
Simpson,  Bp.  Matthew,  (Ohio,  1811-).     34,   130. 
Smart,  W.  S.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     184. 

S.MiLES,  Samuel,  M.  D.,  (Scot.,  1816-).     156,  198,  286,  351,404,  503. 
Smiley,  Sarah.    243. 
Smith,  Alex.,  (Scot.,  1830-1S67).     243. 
Smith,  F.  Burge.    51. 
Smith,  Caroline  S.    181. 
Smith,  Rev.  James,  (Eng.).     79,  251. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  (545 

Smith,  Mrs.  E.  Oakes,  (Anier.,    1S06-).     21S. 

Smith,   R.  Payne,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1S18-).     35. 

Smith,  Rev.  S.  F.,  (Amer.,  1805-).     123. 

Smith,  Rev.  S)'dne)',  (Eng.,  1771-1S45).     293,  364,  430,  476,  4S4. 

Socrates,  (Athens,  470  B.  C.-400  B.  C).     161,  3S0,  382,  554. 

South,  Robt.,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1633-1676).    167,  315,  495,  57S. 

SouTHEY,  Robt.,  (Eng.,  1774-1843).     440. 

Spencer,    Ichabod,    D.  D.,  (Amen,  1798-).      53,    82,  122,  163,  186,  191, 

201,  2S4,  319,  357,  421,  474,  485,  527,  553,  591,  601. 
Spenser,  Edmund,  (Eng.,  1553-1599).     290,409. 
Spring, Gardiner,  D.  D.,  (Mass.,  1785-).     106,  no,  117,  164,  165,  192,  197, 

226,  229,  231,  233,  241,  288,  293,  295,  332,365,  425,  506, 507,  509,  534, 
535.  621. 

Spurgeon,  Rev.    C.  H.,  (Eng,    1834-).     9,   10,  13,  iS,  24,  37,  43,44,  73, 
96  b,  104,  no,  122,  128,  129,  137,  145,  148,149,163,  169,  180,  207,  217, 

227,  228,  239,  294,  303,  315,  316,  323.  335,  336,  343,  345,  346,349.351, 
3S3,  404,  420,  421,  430,  435,  442.  454,  460,  469,  480,482,  490,  537,  552, 
580,  581,  587,  591,  592,  596,  601,  616,  622. 

Stael,  Madame  de,  (France,  1766-1817).     115,  138,  157,255,392,  4S4. 
Stanley,  Dean  Arthur   P.,  (Eng, ,  1815-).     33,  58,64,98,103,105,115, 

133,  149,  162,  197,  204,  211,  214,  249,  352,  357,  363,  376,  445,  495,  56S, 

605,  621. 
Steele,  Anne,  (Eng.,  1717-1778).     82,  328,  371. 
Steele,  Sir  Rich.,  (Ire.,  1671-1729).     442. 
Stennett,  Rev.  Samuel,  (Eng.,  1727-1795).     448. 
Stephen,  St.,  The  Sabaite,  (Greece,  725-794).     153. 
Stephens,  Sir  James,  (Eng.,  1792-1852).     115,  218. 
Sterne,  Rev.  Lawrence,  (Ire.,  1713-1768).     26,  157,  166,  168.  279,  349. 
Stewart,  Dugald,  (Scot.,  1753-1828).     581. 
Stillingfleet,  Bp.  Edward,  (Eng.,  1635-1699).     19. 
Stock,  Eugene,  391. 
Stone,  A.  L.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     241. 
Storrs,  R.  S.,  D.  D.,(Amer.,  1S21-).     23,  130,  142,  347,   440,  477,  4S2 

483,484,499,  522,  561,  606. 
Stowe,  Mrs.H.  B.,  (Conn.,  1812-).     299,  343,  423,  431,  446. 
Street,  Alfred  B.,(Amer.,  1811-1878).     431. 
Sumner,  Charles,  (Mass.,  1811-).     242. 
Sunday  School  Times,  The.    220,   275,  412,  488. 
Swetchine,  Madame,  (France,  1782-1857).     511,  622. 
Swift,  Dean  Jonathan,  (Eng.,  1667-1745).     13,  18. 


646  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

Synod  of  Dort.     75,  82. 

Talmage,  T.  De  Witt,  D.  D.,  (Amer.,  1S32-),     16,  30,  571. 

Tappan,  Rev.  Wm.  B.,  (Amer.,  1794-1854).     301  e. 

Taylor,  B.  F.,  (Amer.,  1S22-).     109. 

Taylor,  H.  G.,  65. 

Taylor,  Jeremy,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,   1613-1667).      13,18,  117,  191,  213,218,, 

254,  274,  308,  392,  397,  461,  462,  465,  468,  469,  486,  501,  547,  574,  576, 

5S2,  586. 
Taylor,  Rev.  T.  R.,  (-1S35).     30S. 
Taylor,  Wm.  M.,  D.  D.,  44,  So,  in,    116,   T26,  144,  151,  290,  417,  427, 

453,465,  473,  506,  551. 
Temple,  Sir  William,  (Eng.,  162S-1699).     140. 
Tenney,  Rev.  E.  P.,  (Amer.).      119,  1S6. 
Tennyson,  Alfred,  (Eng.,  1809-).     174,  393,  536,  616. 
Tertullian,  Ouintus  Septimus  Florens,  (Carthage,  160-240).     285,  3S0. 
Theodoret,  (Turke)^  393-457).     263. 
Tholuck,  Prof.  A.,  (Ger.,  1799-).     38,137,   291. 

Thomas,  David,  D.  D..  (Eng.).     4,  12,  63,  105,  293,  296,  403,  566,606. 
Thomson,  Bp.  Edward,  (Eng.,  1810-1870).     63,65,69,75,   77,79,81,84, 

100,  135,  138,  142,  157,  288,  311,  312,  374,  432,  491,  500,  531,  552,  585. 
Thomson,  James,  (Eng.,  1700-1748.).    256,  430,  588. 
Thoreau,  H.  D.,  (Mass.,  1S17-).     286. 
Thornton,  Rev.  Wm.  L.,  (Eng.,  -1865).     505. 
TiLLOTSON,  Arch.  John,  (Eng.,  1630-1694).      167,  252,  603. 
TocQUEViLLE,  Alexis  de,  (France,  1805-1859).     379,  426,   427. 
TONNA,  Charlotte  Elizabeth,  (Eng.,   1792-1846).     170. 
Toplady,  Rev.  A.  M.,  (Eng.,  1740,   1788).     77,  100,   592. 
Travers,  Eva.     512. 

Trench,  Arch.  R.  C,  (Eng.,  1807-).     455,467. 
Trumbull,  H.  C,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     38,  89,  113,  116,  129,  168,  197,  221, 

251.  315.  378.412,  502,  585. 
Trusler,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1735-1820).     575. 
Tyng,  S.  H.  Jr.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     254,  302,  570,   572. 

Upham,  T.  C,  D.  D.,  (  N.  H.,  1799-1872).     201,  316. 
Usher,  Arch.  James,  (Ire.,  1580-1656).     49. 

Van  Giesen,  A.  P.,  D.  D.     53S. 

Van  Lennep,  A.  O.     571. 

Vaughan,  Henry,  (Eng.,  1621-1695).     43. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  647 


Very,  Rev.  Jones,  (Mass.,  1813-1SS0).     390. 

Vincent,  J.  H.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     62,  73,  206.  361,  414,  556,  569,  572. 

Vincent,  M.  R.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     223,  232,235,  237. 

ViNET,  A.,  D.  t).,  (Switz.,  1797-1S47).     395. 

Wallace,  Rev.  J.  A.,  (Amer.).     459. 

Walton,  Isaac,  (Eng.,  1593-16S3).     579. 

Warburton,  Bp.  Wm.,  (Eng.,  169S-1779).     349. 

Waring,  Anna  L.,  (Wales).     575,  593. 

Warner,  Anna.    99,  169. 

Warren,  Bp.  H.  W.,  (Amer.).     531. 

Washburn,  E.  A.,D.  D.     590. 

Washington,  George,  (Vir.,  1732-1799).     157,  215,  315,  426,487. 

Watson,  Rev.  Rich.,  (Eng.,  1737-1816).     36,  105,266. 

Watson,  Rev.  Thomas,  (Eng.,-1689).     159,  219,228,441. 

Watts,  Isaac,  D.  D.,  (Eng.,  1674-1748).     72,  82,  259,  261,  520,  542. 

Wayland,  Francis,  D.  D.,(Amer.,  1796-1865).  162,248. 

Webster,  Daniel,  (N.  H.,  1782-1S52).     33,  107,  157,  173,  199,  292,  330, 

493>  525. 
Weiss,  Rev.  John,  (Mass.,  1818-1879).     iiS. 

Wellington,  Arthur  Wellesley,  Duke  of,  (Eng.,  1769-1852).     504. 
Wesley,  Rev.  Charles,  (Eng.,  170S-1788).     150,  273,  591. 
Wesley,  Rev.  John,  (Eng.,  1703-1791).      190,  285. 
Westminster  Catechism.     7,   40,  223,  256,  361,  457,  490,  509,  529,  545, 

551- 
Whately,  Arch.  Rich.,  (Eng.,  1787-1833).     352,  500,  536,  604. 
Whelpley,  Rev.  Samuel,  (Mass.,  1766-1817).     29. 
White,  Joseph  Blanco,  (Spain,  1775-1841).     179. 
Whitfield,  Rev.  Geo.,  (Eng.,  1714-1770).     501  g,  518,  543. 
Whipple,  Bp.  H.  B.,  (Amer.).     3,  95,  618. 
Whipple,  E.  P.,  (Amer.,  1819-).     3S6. 

Whittier,  J.  G.,  (Mass.,  1807-).     22,  252,  282,  382,  399,  513,  601. 
Wilberforce,  William,  (Eng.,  1759-1833)-     222,  368. 
Wilcox,  Carlos,  (.\mer.,  1794-1827).     3,  205,  384. 
WiLLETS,  A.  A.,  D.  D.,  (Amer.).     290. 
WiLLi.wis,  Rev.  W.,  (Wales,-I79i).     263. 
Willis,  N.  P.,  (Maine,  1807-1867).     394. 
Wilson,  John,  (Christopher  North),  (Scot.,  1785-1854).     136. 
WiNSLO\v,  Mrs.  Mar)\     55. 
WiNSLOW,  Octavius,  D.  D.,  (Eng..  1S39-1861).     144,  458,  574. 


648     .  INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 

WiNTHROP,  Robt.  C,  (Mass.,  1809-).     425. 
Wirt,  William,  (Amer.,  1772-1834).  424. 
WiTHERSPOON,  Rev.  John,  (Scot.,  1722-1794).     243. 
WoLCOTT,  Rev,  Samuel.     22.  * 

WORDSWORTH;  Wm.,  (Eng.,  1770-1850).     178,  198,  201, 
Wyckliffe,  John,  (Eng.,   1324-1384).     2S8. 

Young,  Edward,  (Eng.,  1684-1765).  9,  1S2,  206,  209,  212,  271,  291,  29S, 
342,  348,  366>  392,  402,  447.  485>  582,  616. 

Zimmerman,  John  G.,  M.  D.,  (Switz.,  1728-1795).     301,  406. 
ZiNZENDORF,  Nikolaus  Ludwig  Count  von,  (Ger.,  1700-1760).     80. 
ZwiNGLE,  Ulrich,  (Switz.,  1484-1530),     238. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


[The  figures  refer  to  the  pages,  the  letters  to  the  number  of  the  selections;  thus,  28 
c,  d,  denotes  the  third  and  fourth  extracts  on  page  28  ;  and  45  b  —  48  c  all  from  the 
second  selection  on  page  45  to  the  third  on  page  48  inclusive.] 


Ability,   i.     See  also  Talent. 

How  developed,  i  b,  c,  121  d-f. 

How  lost,  563  b. 

Involves  responsibility,  i  a. 
Accountability:  1-2. 

Sense  of  in  eternity,  2  a. 

Sphere  of,  i  d. 
Action:    2-6.     ^&>i-sAso Earnestness- 

Exemplified,  3d  —  f. 

History  of  the  church,  4  d. 

Man's  end,  2  b. 

Measure  of  worth,  2  c 

Nature  of,  2  e,  4  b,  e,  6  a,   564  a, 
566  b. 

Need  of,  3  c,  112  e,  122  a. 

Prompt,  5  6  —  f. 

Resolute,  6  b,  c,  g,  125  a. 

Results  of,  3  a,  b,  e,  4  c,  5  b,  c,  3 
g.  243  a. 

Results  of  eternal,  2  d,  4  a,  6  d  — 
f.  351  b,  551  f. 

Unselfish,  4  f,  242  e,  243  a. 

We  shall  meet  it  at  the  judgment, 
361  b. 
A.DOPTION  :  7. 

Cause  of,  7  c,  489  e. 


Adoption  (Continued). 

Nature  of,  7  a,  362  a. 

Need  of,  7  b. 

Result  of,  159  a,  489  e. 
Adversity  :  7-8.  See  also  Trials. 

Deepened  by  impatience,  7  e. 

Develops  strength,  57S  c. 

Easier  to  bear  than  prosperity,  8  a. 

God's  design  in  it,  7  d. 

Refuge  in,  7  f. 
Affliction:    8-11.      See  also  Be- 
reavement. 

Attend  at  once  to  its  lessons,  10  a. 

Clears  our  spiritual  vision,  8  f. 

Cup  of  salvation,  a,  10  f. 

Extraordinar}',  g  a. 

Fits  for  heroic  service,  9  h. 

God's  presence  in,  10  i,  11  b,  c. 

How  to  bear  it,  10  e,  10  g. 

How  to  give  help  in,  11  a. 

Leads  to  heaven,  9  c,  d,  10  g. 

Lot  of  all,  the,   8  g. 

May  be  God's  light,  9  f,  i. 

Means   of    development,  a,   8   c 
96. 

Meekness  under,  11  d. 


650 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Affliction  (Continued). 

Prayer  for  comfort  in,  ii  e. 

Removed,  should  produce  grati- 
tude, lo  h. 

Sanctified,  9  b,  10  b-d. 

School  of  virtue,  a,  8  d. 

Shadow  of  God's  wings,  8  b. 

Teachings  of,  9  e. 

Test  of  character,  a,  9  g. 

Weans  us  from  the  earth,  8  e. 
Ambition  :  11-12. 

Effects  of,  12  a,  b. 

Nature  of,  11  f,  12  b,  c. 
Amusement  :  12-13. 

Effect  on  religion,  12  d,  e,  150  d. 

Effect  in  the  Sunday-school,  572  f. 

Example  of,  13  a. 

Innocent,  12  f. 

Proper  in  its  place,  12  g,  452  c. 

Unlawful,  251  c,  383  h. 

Anger  :  13-14. 

Folly  of,  13  c,   e. 

How  to  control  it,  14  c. 

Nature  and  evil  of,  13  b,  d,   14  a. 

Unchristian,  14  b,  d. 
Apostasy  :  14-15. 

Exemplified,  14  e. 

"Is  it  I?"  14  f,  15  a. 
Asleep  in  Jesus.     See  Death   of 

Christians. 
Aspiration  :  15. 

Not  murmurmg,  15  d. 

Prayer  for  God's  aid,  15  f. 

Unsatisfied  desire,  18  e. 
Assurance  :  16-18. 

Best,  the,  16  e,  17  c. 

Full,  18  a. 

How  to  obtain  it,  16  d,  17  a,  d. 

In  its  absence,  practice  the  faith 
of  adherence,  18  b. 


Assurance  (Continued). 

In  prayer,  460  c,  d. 

Its    nature  and  end,    16  a,  b,  d, 
604  g. 

Seek  to  obtain  it,  16  c. 

Unquestioning,  example  of,  17  b. 
Atheism  :  18-20. 

Benefits  no  one,  19  a. 

Cause  of,  19  f,  487  b. 

Choose  between    it    and    Chris- 
tianity, 20  a. 

Denies  man's  nobility,  19  c. 

Destitution,  a,  19  b. 

Folly  of,  18  c,  d. 

Gives  no  comfort  in  death,  190. 

Practical,  20  b. 

Solitariness  of,  19  d. 

Source  of,  iS  e-f. 
Atonement.     See  Christ,  Saviour. 
Avarice  :  20-21. 

Nature  and  effects,  20  c-f. 

Prayer  to  be  kept  from,  21  a. 

Backsliding,  cause  of,  21  b-d. 
Baptism  :  21-22. 

Holy  Spirit,  of.  22  a. 

Sign,  a,  21  e. 
Beatitudes,  33  c. 
Beauty  ;  22. 

and  holiness,  22  c-f. 

Defined,  22  b. 
Belief  :  22-23.    See  also  Faith  and 
Trust. 

Absence  of,  23  d-e. 

Comfort  of,  23  f. 

Defined,  22  g. 

Effects  of,  23  a. 

How  to  secure  it,  22  h,  23  b. 

In  Christ,  103  d,  154  a,  364  c. 

Measure  of,  23  c 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


651 


Beneficence  :  24-27. 

Antidote  to  worldliness,  24  e-f. 

Consecrates  wealth,  24  e. 

Constant,  26  b. 

Duty,  a,  25  e,  27  a,  574  d. 

Glory  of,  24  a,  131  a. 

Law  of  creation,  26  a. 

Proper  exercise  of,  25  a-g. 

Reward  of,  24  c,  26  c-f,  270  d. 

Seasonable,  24  g. 

Source  of,  47  c,  574  b. 
Bereavement  :      27-28.      See  also 
Affliction. 

Christ's  presence  in,  27  b. 

Friends  gone  before,   27  e,   28  a. 

Resignation  in,  27  c,  28  b. 

Sympathy  for  bereaved,  27  d. 
Bible  :  28-40. 

Brings  light,  30  b. 

Character  and  claims,  28  c-32  d^ 

33  d,  35  b-d,  36  c,  37  b,  40  e. 
Christ's  word,  32  d. 

Delight  in,  40  h. 
Destro3'S  idolatry,  34  c. 
Establishes  freedom  and  justice. 

34  d,  569  d,  570  a. 

Given  by  Nature's  God,  31  b,35  b. 
God's  letter  of  afTection,  30  d. 
God's  word,  evidences  of,  29  e,  34 
e,  35  f. 
Holy  Spirit  its  interpreter,  318  c. 
How  to  study  it,  38  e,  39  a,  40  a- 

d,  572  d,  573  a. 
How  to   use  it,   37  c,  38  c,  40  g, 

365  b. 
Interprets  nature,  31  a. 
Literary  worth    of,  31  c,   e>  i,  33 

d-f,  34  a,  386  c. 
Mystery  in,  422  a,  b. 
Old  Testament,  32  e. 
Own  interpreter,  36  f. 


Bible  (Continued). 

Place  in  the  family,  39  c,  d. 

Promotes  morality,  34  b,  36  b. 

Proverbs,  33  b. 

Psalms,  33  a,  b. 

Read  it,  38  a,  39  c,  40  f. 

Reveals  salvation,  29  e,  f,  30  a-c, 
32  b,   497  e. 

Simplicity  of,  29  c. 

Sorrow  unfolds  it,  555  e. 

Submission  to  its  teachings, 38  b,c. 

Substantial,  29  e,  36  e. 

Thought  suggesting,  31  c,  364  d. 

Treasure,  30  b,  c,  31  d,  e,  39  e. 

Treasury,   not  an  arsenal,  38  d. 

Truth  of,  29  c,  d,  36  e.  37  b. 

Unchanged,  35  e. 

Unity  of,  32  c,  d. 
Books.     See  Literature. 
Brotherhood  :  41-42. 

Common  level. 41  d. 

Christ's  teaching,  41  b,  42  b,  136  a. 

Of  man,  41  a,  84  d,  46  g,  47  a. 

Revealed  by  the  Scriptures,  41  c. 

Sense  of,  how  developed,  42  a. 
Brotherly  Love.     See  Sympathy. 
Burden-bearing:   99  a-d,  gS   a-c, 
253  b,  c,  548  f,  554  f. 

Cares  :  42-44. 

And  meditation,  406  e. 

Basis  of,  42  c,  43  a. 

Cast  them  on  God,  43  c,  44  a. 

Climb  above  them,  43  f,  601  e. 

Keep  them  without  thee,  43  b,  c. 

Of  riches,  521  d,  523  d. 

Why  art  thou  troubled  ?  43  f. 
Character  :  44-46. 

Above  intellect,  353  d. 

All  we  can    take  into  eternity,  44 
e,  623  c. 


652 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Character  (Continued). 

Children  (Continued). 

At  death,  i8o  c,  d,  213  c,  623  c. 

What  to  teach  them,  33  f. 

Christian,  evidences  of,  365  e. 

Why  God  has  given  them,  50  a. 

Faith    its   most    essential    ingre- 
dient, 45  b. 

How  formed,   45   d,  46  d    254  e, 
255  b,   581  b. 

How  injured,  45  g,  46  a. 

Measure  of  enjoyment  and  suflTer- 

Choice  ;  53.     See  also  Decision, 

Decisive  moments,  53  f. 

Imperative,  53  e-g,  435  d. 
Christ:  54-102. 

Advent  of,  54  b,  55  a. 

Advocate,  88  c,  d. 

ing,  45  a. 

All  in  all,  54  a. 

Strength  of.  45  c. 

Tested,  44  c,  533  a,  534  e,  f. 

Always  the  same,  64  a,  78  a,  93  d. 
e,  94  a. 

Tombstone,  the  best,  44  d. 

Atoning    sacrifice.       See    Christ's 

Charity  (Love) :  46-48. 

Sufferings  and  Death. 

How  to  foster  it,  48  b. 

Beauty  of,  54  a,  57  a,  96  c. 

In  speaking,  47  g. 

Blood  of,  87  e,  f,  88  a,  c.  74  e,  8i 

Motive  for,  47  a. 

b,  d,-83  d,  84  a. 

Nature    and   effect  of,  46  e-g, 

47 

Brother,  m}^  93  a,  c,  94  a,  100  b. 

b-f.  48  c. 

Burden,  98  a-d. 

Should  begin  at  home,  48  a. 

Burden  bearer,  61   e,  86  b.  98  e. 

Chastisement:  140  a,  5680,588 

a. 

99  a-d. 

See  also  Affliction,  etc. 

Centre  of  world's  histor}-,    56  b, 

Cheerfulness  :  48-49. 

c,  59  d,  78  a. 

Cause  of,  one,  545  d. 

Character,  grandeur  of,  59  e,  60  c, 

Cultivate  it,  49  a,  b. 

61  c,  d,  64  f. 

Effect  of,  48  e,  f. 

Creator,  56  c. 

Honors  God,  49  d. 

Cross  of,  71  d,  72  a,  b,  73  c,  e,  78 

In  self-denial,  534  c, 

d,  e.     See  also  Cross  of  Christ. 

What  it  indicates,  48  g,  h, 

Cross  constantly  before  Him,  61 

Children:  49-53. 

c,  d,68  c. 

Bring  them  to  Christ,  50  d,  145 

b, 

Divine,  56  d,  57  a-sS  d,  59  e,62  b, 

571  b,  572  a,  b. 

138  b. 

Christ's  method,  49  f,  50  c,  570  c. 

Embodiment  of  virtue,  65  c. 

Consider  them  lent  to  us,  51  e 

Enthusiasm  of,  208  e. 

Death  of,  51  f,  53  b,  d. 

Ever  lives,  75  e,  78  a. 

Don't  despise  them,  50  e. 

Exaltation  of,  77  a-e. 

Educate  us,  51  a,  545  e. 

Example,  our,  62  e,  124  f,   391  e. 

How  to  train  them,  50  b,  295  d. 

Faith  in.     See  Faith  in  Christ. 

Need  models,  not  critics,  49  g. 

Faith  of,  61  d. 

Patience  with,  51  d. 

Fame  of,  60  a,  61  b,  78  a. 

Prayer  for,  50  f. 

Fulfills  all  types,  69  b,  c. 

We  all  are  children,  51  b,c,  143c 

f. 

Fullness  of,  95  c-96  b. 

INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


653 


Christ  (Continued). 

Christ  (Continued). 

Gives  freedom,  60  b,  89  a. 

Obedience  of,  68  b. 

Governs  the  ages,  59  d. 

Omnipotence  of,  65  e,  f,  66  a-c. 

Guide,  88  e,  f,  89  a,  b,  f,  598  b. 

Only,  66  e. 

High  Priest.    See  Christy  Saviour. 

Parables  of,  63  a,  65  d,  e. 

Home,  His  gift,  325  c,  326  d,  327  a. 

Patience  of,  63  b,  444  b,  453  d. 

Human   and   Divine.   55  c,  56  a, 

Peace  of,  445  d-446  e,  f. 

61  a,  60  d. 

Perfections  of,  54  a,  59  b,  c,  60  c. 

Humility,   60  c,  67  b. 

63  b,  67  b. 

Ideal  of  humanity,  54  b,  c,  55  e, 

Pity  of,  58  d,  e,  f,  97  b. 

57  a,  b,  77  c,  42  b. 

Praise  of,  54  a. 

Incarnation  of,  54  b,   55  a,  132  b, 

Presence  of,  96  c-97  e,  95  b,  110 

393  li- 

b,  250  e,  475  f,  568  e,  584  e. 

Intercession  of,  473  b. 

Presence   in   heaven,   302   e,  303 

In  the  Sunday-school,  572  a,  571 
a,  b,  570  b,  c. 

a-d,  30S  b,  c. 
Power  of  God ,  87  c. 

Invades  the  lives  of  others,  108  c. 

Prayers  of,  63  a,  66  d,  71  c. 

Invitation  of,  62  c,  85  a. 

Prophet,  91  a-e.     See  also  Zt'arw- 

Joy  of,  78  c,  356  b,  c. 

ing  of  Christ. 

King,  77  e,  78  a-79  c,  85  d,  437  b. 

Ph3'sician,  the  great,  94  b,  154  b. 

Kingdom  of,  500  c. 

Refuge,  100  a-ior  f. 

Lamb  of  God,  86  a,  b. 

Rejected  of  men,  60  c     See  also 

Last  work  of,  73  a. 

Rejection  of  Christ. 

Leader,  80  a-f . 

Remembrance  of,  70  b. 

Life  and  ministr)'-,  54-68. 

Resurrection  of,  75  e,   76    a,  137 

Light,  the,  65   b,  c,  90  a,  b,  91  c. 
Lord  and  God,  my,  85  d. 

c. 
Reveals  God,  62  a-c,  65  e,  2S5  d. 

Love  of,  41  b,  58  e,  f,  59  b,  c,  65 
a,  71  a,  b,  82  c,  85  a,  92-94,311  c. 

Manifestation  of  God's  love,  271 
c-272  d. 

431  d. 
Reveals  immortality,  91  d,  e. 
Rock  of  Ages,  100  d,  e,  loi  a-f. 
Sacrifice,    love's    greatest    effort, 

Manliness  of,  55  d,  59  b. 

77  b. 

Meekness  of,  407  c. 

Sacrifice,  sufficiency  of,  82  a,  87  a. 

Mercy,  sense  of,  85  b. 

Saviour,  67  a,  81-87,  88  a,  b,  g,  91 

Messiah,  76  b,  77  a. 

d,  92  a,  94  e,  95  b-f ,  96  a,  97  d. 

Method  of,  63  a. 

162  e,  210  e,  246  d,  f,  359  b,  c, 

Miracle  of  the  ages,  57  3,65,  f,  78  a. 

391  a,  b,  416  e,  489  b,  d,  490  a, 

Miracles  of,  64  d,  65  f-66  d. 

510  c,  d,  529   b,  546  f,   5S0  d. 

Mission  of,  559  g. 

590  a. 

Nature,  mystery  of,  422  c,  423  e. 

Second  coming  of,  102  c-e.      See 

Necessar}^    that    He    should    go 
away,  68  d. 

also  RlillennixiDi. 
Self-dedication  of,  59  c. 

654 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Christ  (Continued). 

Shepherd,  59  a,  89  a,  b,  d,  e. 
Simplicity  of,  63  c,  64  a,  96  c 
Soul  of  the  gospel,  288  e. 
Soul's  rest,  559  e, 
Substitute,  my,  72  d. 
Sufferings    and    death    of,  69-75, 

546  e,  585  e. 
Support  in  death,  183  e. 
Sympathy  of,  92  b,  93  c,  94  a-c. 
Teacher,  the  great,  62  b,  d,  e,  63 

a,  77  a,  140  d. 
Tears  of,  58  d. 

Tenderness  of,  59  b,  c,  68  a,  82  c, 

89  e,  91  b,  92  b,  93  c,    94  a-c, 

5S4C,  593  d. 
Transfiguration  of,  66  e,  f,  67  a. 
Trials,  little  things,  59  e. 
Triumph  of,  is  mine,  44  a. 
Truth,  59  a-c,  62  d,  63  a,  64  b-e, 

65  a,  86  e,  91  a,  b. 
Unselfish,  60  b. 
Waiting  for  me,  89  e. 
Watchfulness  of,  89  c. 
Way,  the,  90  b-e. 
Wisdom  of  God,  58  b,  59  a-c,  62 

d,  63  a,  64  b,  65  d,  95  e. 
Words  of,   59  a-c,  62  d,  63  a,  64 

b-e,  65  d,  e,  91  a,  b. 
Work  of,  supernatural,  70  d. 
Yoke  of,  98  a-d. 
Christians  :  103-107. 

Death  of,  176  c-e,  177  b-e,  178  a, 

b,  d,  179  b,  182-186. 
Doubts  of,  196  c. 
Earnestness  of,  110  a. 
Entrusted    with    Christ's    glory, 

106  c. 
Example  of,  116  c. 
Experience,  113  c 
Fearful  ones,  106  e. 


Christians  (Continued). 

Free  from  malice,  106  a,  115  f, 

116  a,  520  c,  d. 
Graces  of,  119  a. 
Hope  of,  327  e,  328  f . 
How  to  become  one.  105  d,  152  a. 
Joys  of,  355  c,  356  b,  447  e.     See 

2AS0  Joy. 
Like   Christ,  104  b,  105  c,  552  b, 

562    b.      See  also   Likeness   to 

Christ. 
Littleness  of,  105  e. 
Living  for  Christ,  109  e.  249  b. 
Manhood    of,   476    a.       See  also 

Manhood  and  ManHncss. 
Memory  in  heaven.  40S  a. 
Patience  of,  442  h.     See  also  Pa- 
tience. 
Prayer   necessarj^    457   b.       See 

also  Prayer. 
Privilege  of,  254  b. 
Purpose  of,  120  ^,  e,  121  c,   197 

a,  296  e. 
Represent  Christ,  103  e,  115  e. 
Safety  in  Christ,  107  a,  no  b. 
Satisfied  only  in  part,  106  d. 
Simplicity  of,    156  a.       See  also 

Simplicity. 
Testimony  of,    106  b.      See  also 

Speaking  for  Christ. 
Union  to  Christ,  81  b,  105  b.   See 

also  Union  to  Christ. 
Useful,  105  a.     See  also  Christian 

Sei-vice. 
Y'xciory  oi,  108  d,  109  a,  no  a. 
What  they  are,    103-104,    250  a, 

163  e,  434  d. 
Christian  Conflict:  107-110. 
Christ  with  us,  577  a. 
Condition    of    spiritual    growth, 

564  b,  c,  563  e,  612  c. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


655 


Christian  Conflict  (Continued). 
Nature  and  end  of,   107-110,   114 

d,  115  a,  b. 
Christian  Fellowship  :  110-112. 
Christ's  love,   bond   of,  85  d,  no 

d,  III  a,  b,  d,    143  b,  475  d. 
Rich  and  poor,  inc. 
Christian  Life:  112-119.    Seealso 

Holiness  and  Piety. 
Action,  2  c,  5  a,  112  d,  e,  554  a, 

566  b. 
Culture  and  discipline,  113  d. 
Emotion,  feeling,  114  c. 
End  of,  118  b-f,  380  e-g. 
Following  Christ,  113  a. 
Higher  t)'pe  of,  115  c,  e. 
Intellect  not  a  substitute  for,  114 

b. 
Light  of,  116  c,  d,  572  c. 
Mistakes  of,  117  c,  d. 
Nature  of,  192  f. 
Need  of  self-denial,  533  a,  f,  534 

d.  e,  535  c. 
Progress  in,  116  a,  b,  117  c,  118  f. 
Source  of,  602  b. 
Strength  and  beaut)%  113  e,  114  a, 

115  d. 
Test  of,  117  a-c,  136  b,  278  a. 
Token  of  redeeming  grace,  113  b. 
Trials  of,  264  e,  265  d.     See  also 

Trials. 
Worship,  a,  118  c. 

Christian  Service  :  119-131. 
Ability  for,  i  a,  c,  2  c-e,  3-6, 121 

d-f,  122  a,  123  a-e. 
Calmness  of,  124  a. 
Consecration  to,  130  e. 
Danger  in,  566  a. 
Delight  in,  120  d,  e,  121  a,  b,  122 

b,  125  b,  561  f. 


Christian  Service  (Continued). 
Desire  for,  120  e,  121  a-c,  124  b, 

561  g. 
Discouragements  in,  122  e. 
Every  day's  work,  120  a. 
Glory  of,  131  a-c 
God's   guidance    in,    125   a,  c,  d, 

128  f,  129  a. 
Heartily  as  to    the  Lord,   126  a- 

128  e,  130  a-e. 
Humility  in,  122  d. 

Little  things,  120  c,  d,  561  b-d. 
Method  of,  121  d,e,  122  d,   125  a, 

129  e,  166  a,  b,  d,  169  e,  269  c, 
d,  363  c,  f. 

Nature  of,   120  b,  576  f. 
Necessit}'  for,   122  a,  b,  124  c-f, 

368  a-c,  399  c. 
Patience  in,  125  e,  442  h. 
Reward  of,  131  a-c. 
Sinners  brought  to  Christ,  129  b, 

c,  d,  f,  130  b,  d. 
Christianity  :   131-142. 

Adapted  to  man,  139  b,  c,  140  b, 

f,  141  a-c,  142  a,  b,  c. 
And  home,  326  a,  c,  d. 
And  infidelit}'.     See  Infidelity. 
And  woman,  6x8  a,  b. 
Effects  of,  134  b,  c,  135  d,  136,  a- 

d,  137  a,  139  b-e,  140-142,  143 
a,  107  b,  c,  614  a. 

Evidences  of,  134  c-e,  135-138, 

139  b,  c,   140  f,  141  a,  c,  143  a, 

23  b,  501  d,  e. 
Miracle,  a,  133  d. 
Mother  of  freedom,  379  b,  c. 
Nature  of,  131  e,  132  a-133  e,  134 

a,  d,  135  a-c. 
Need  of,  545  a. 
Triumphs  of,    133  c,  136  a,  c,  137 

a,  141-142. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Christianity  (Continued). 

Unlike  other  systems,   133  a,  e, 
^35   c,  137   d,    140  f,    141   a,  c, 
143  a. 
Christmas  :  143  b-e. 
Church  :  143-150. 

And  the  Sunday-school,  569  d. 

Backsliding,  147  b. 

Best  days  of,  584  g. 

Christ  its  head,  144  a,  b,  145  c,  e, 

148  c,  149  a,  e. 

Christ   with   it  in   its  dark  days, 

149  a,  b. 
Coldness  of,  148  a. 
Consecration  of,  144  d. 
Counterfeit,  a,  148  b. 
Divided,  a,  148  c,  d. 
Faith  of,  146  c. 

God's  covenant  with,  143 g,  144b. 
Growth  of,  144  a,  554  g. 
Heresy  in,   147  f. 
Holy  Spirit's  presence  in,   144  d, 

145  f,  318  e,  321  e,322  b-d,323  a. 
Indolent,  an,  147  c-e. 
In    heaven,    360    a.        See    also 

Heaven. 
Mission  of,  149  d. 
Missionary  work,    150   b.       See 

also  Missions. 
Must  cling  to  Christ,  145  c,  146  c 
Must  honor  Christ,  145  a. 
Peace  of,  148  c-e. 
Piety,  need  of,  145  a-f,  146  a,  147 

a-d. 
Pillar  of  civil  liberty,    148  f. 
Power  of,  144    d,  146  c,  147  a,  d. 
Revivals,    145   d,  e,   149  c.     See 

also  Revivals. 
Revivals,  spasmodic  effort,  149c. 
Unit)'  of,  149  e,  150  a,  148  c,  d. 
Visible,  144  c. 


Church  (Continued). 

Working,  a,  147  d,  e,  455  f. 
Church  (Sanctuary) :   150-151. 

Attendance  upon  ordinances,  150 
c. 

Edifice,  151  a,  b. 

Services,  146  a,  150  d. 
Coldness  of  Heart:  82  e. 
Coming  TO  Christ:  151-155.     See 
also  Repentance. 

Believing  on  Him,  153  f,  154  a. 

Condition  of  repentance,  506  a. 

He  will  receive  you,  153  b,  c. 

Method  of,  151-153. 

Preparation  for,  152  a-c. 

Renouncing  sin,  154  a. 

Sense  of  sin,  153  d,  e. 
Communion  with  God  and  Christ, 
120    c,   296  a.     See  also  Prayer 
and  Devotion. 
Confessing  Christ  :   155-156.    See 
also  Last  Supper. 

Duty  of,  155  c. 

No  secret  Christians,  155  d-f. 
Confidence.    See  Faith  and  Trust. 
Conscience:  156-158. 

Evil,  an,  157  d,  h,  i,  158  a. 

Good,  a,  215  e. 

Nature  and  office  of,  157  a-f,  389 
b,  503  e. 

Seared,  a,  158  a. 

Sunda}',  a,  524  e. 

Tender,  a,  552c,d,  553  b,  615  e. 

Consecration:  158-160. 

Entire,  158  c,   159  b,  c,   e,  610  d. 
Holy  Spirit  the  agent,  159  a. 
Necessary  to  usefulness,  158  d. 
Of  riches,  521  f,  522  a. 
Prayer  for,  15S  b,  159  b,  160  a. 
Produces  peace  and   joy,  159  d, 
160  a. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


657 


Consolation,  Christ's  :  27  b. 

Ground  of,  144  b. 
Contempt  :  160. 

Contemptible,  160  e. 

Leaves  a  scar,   160  g. 

No  room  for,  160  d. 

Self-righteousness  its  source, 160  f. 

Spirit  of  Antichrist,  160  b,  c. 
Contentment  :  161. 

And  aspiration,  300  a. 

Condition  of,  161  b. 

In  an)-  state,  161  g. 

Is  wealth,  161  a. 

Simple  pleasures,  161  d-f. 

Two  kinds,  161   c. 
Controversy  :  162.     See  also  De- 
iiominationalism . 

An  evil,  38  d,  162  c,  d,  480  d. 

Manliness  in,  162  a. 

Needful  to  progress,  162  b. 
Conversion  :  162-164. 

Evidence  of,  163    c,    f,   164  a,  b, 
436  a. 

Human  instrumentality  in,  122  d, 
164  d. 

Nature    of,  162  e-163  e,    164   c, 

283  g- 

Spurious,  115  f. 
Conviction  :  164-165. 

"  Almost  persuaded,"  165  b. 

Difficult  to  the  moralist,  164  f. 

Necessary  to  belief,  164  e. 

Not  conversion,  165  a. 
Courage  :  165-167.    See  also  I/ero- 
ism  and  Manliness. 

Conscience  its  root,  167  a. 

Decisive  energy  of,  239  d. 

God's  aid,  167  b. 

Kowto  cultivate  it,  166  f,  592  e. 

Need  of,  165  c-i66  e,  16S  g,  405  c. 

Source  of,  165  d,  e. 
4:2 


Covetousness  :  167. 
Ambition  of,  167  e,  f. 
Cure  for,  25  f,  167  g. 
Effect  of,  167  d,  h. 
Nature  of,  167  c. 
Creation.    See  God  Creator. 

Mystery  of,  424  c,  d,  425  a. 
Criticism  :  168. 
Cant  of,  168  a. 
Danger  of,  168  c. 
Not  religion,  168  b. 
Of  Christian  effort,  168  e. 
Of  ministers,  16S  d. 
Right  kind  of,  168  f. 
Cross  Bearing  :  168-171. 
Christ  helps  us,  169  b,  170  d. 
Fear  of,  171  a. 

Method,  the  proper,  169  a,  405  e. 
Nature  of,   168    g,  169    c,   170   c, 

204  d. 
Need  of,  171  d. 
Pleasure,  a,  i6g  d,  170  a. 
Prayer  for  God's  grace,  170  d,  e. 
Privilege  of,  171  b,c,  373  c,  443  a. 
Self  the  greatest  cross,  170  b. 
Submission  and    acceptance    of, 

170  f. 
Cross  of  Christ;  171-173. 

And    Christ    inseparable,     73    c, 

300  e. 
Effect  of,  71  d,  141  c,  142  a,  172, 

522  a. 
Glory  of,  171  e-g. 
Looking  to  it,  173  a. 
Oblation  of,   246  b. 
Prayer  for  its  benefits,  173  d,  e. 
Reveals    God's  goodness,  262  a, 

568  a. 
Sign  of  victor)',  172  c,  56S  a. 
Sinner's  sanctuar)%  172  a,  d,  173 

b-d. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Crucifixion  of  Christ.  See 
Cht  ist's  Sufferings  and  Death. 

Culture  and  Religion,  320  a,  503 
e-504  c,  504  e. 

Death  :  173-186. 

All  must  die,  173  f,  174  a-c,  176 

f,  178  e,  184  b,  c. 
Awful  to  the  sinner,  95  b,  175  c. 
Christ's  support  in,  95  b,  183  e. 
Comforter's  presence  in,  183  a. 
Debt  of  nature,  179  c. 
Does  not  change  character,  180  c,d. 
End  of  earth,  174  e,  175  a,  b. 
Faith  in,  608  c 
Fear  of,  170  b,  179  a,   181  a,   1S4 

c,  e,  183  e,  185  a. 
God's  help  in,  596  a,  d. 
Going  home,  185  d,  e. 
Hour  of,  175  a-176  a,  385  d. 
Illustrations  of,  174  a,  b,   176  d,  e, 

177  d,  e. 
Lesson  of,  186  a. 

Love  triumphant  in,  182  a-d,  1S4  e. 
Nearness  of,  177  a-c. 
Of  children,  51  f,  52  a-d,  53  a-d. 
Of  Christians,  176  c-e   177  b,  d,  e, 

178  a,  d,  b,  179  b,  182-186,  119 
b,  c,  295  b,  328  c,  e. 

Of  the  old,  439  f,  g. 

Prayer  for  God's  aid  in,  179  b,  d, 

181  b,  178  b. 
Preparation  for,  176  b,  180  e,  f,  181 

b,  c. 
Power  of,  170  b,  174  c,  d. 
Second,  181  d.     See  also  Hell. 
Sleep,  a,  181  d,  183  b,  c,  184  b. 
Transition,  178  d. 
Untimely,  180  e,  f. 
Visions  of  angels  in,  182  d. 
Decision  :   186-187. 
And  toleration,  187  b. 


Decision  (Continued). 

Need  of,  53  f,  So  a,  108  b,   1S6  c, 
d,  e,  187  a-e. 

Weakness  is  wickedness,  187  d,  e- 
Deeds  never  die  :2d,  4  a,  6d,ii9 

e. 
Delay.      See  Procrastinatio7i. 
Denominationalism  :  187-189. 

Need  of  Christian  fellowship,  112 
c,  149  e,  150  a,  18S  a,  189  a-c. 

Need  of  different  sects,  188  c-e. 

Difference,  slight,  187  f. 
Denying  Christ  :  189. 

How  Christians  do  it,  189  d,  e. 
Depravity,  Human  :  189-191.    See 
also  Evil  and  Sin. 

In  Christians,  605  b. 

In  perdition,  311  a. 

Native,  190  c,  d,  igi  a. 

Universal,    189  f,    190  a,  d,  191  a. 
Despair  :   191.    See  also  Fear. 

Cause  of,  191  d. 

Cure  for,  igi  c,  499  d. 

Nature  of,  191  b,  c. 
Development  in  Heaven  :    307  a- 

308  e. 
Devotion  :      192-194.        See    also 

Prayer. 
How  to  increase  it,  192  d,  193  a-e, 

194  a. 
Mistaken  idea  of,  193  f. 
Nature  of,  192  a-193  d. 
Necessarj^  to  the  theologian,  579  e. 
Not  the  only  business  of  life,  2  c, 
508  d. 
Disappointment:  281  f.     See  also 

Trials. 
Discipleship.measureof:  126  d,i27 
a.       See  also  Clu-istian  Service. 
Discipline  of  Life,   107  d,  109  c, 

no  c,  115  a,  588  d. 
Dispositions,  420  b. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


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Doctrine  :  194-195. 

Duty  (Continued). 

Belief  in,  163  d. 

Obligation,  199  a-200  b,   f,  g,  201 

How  to  explain  it,  194  d. 

c,  202  a. 

How   to   know   of  it,  138  a,  b,  d. 

Of  prayer,  474  d,  e. 

194  f,  g.  195  a. 

Performed,  efTects  of,  197  d,  198 

Leads  to  Christ,  154  c. 

a,  c,  igg  a-e,  202  c,  297  e,  6ri  c. 

Our  proper  attitude  to, 194  c-195  a. 

Performed,  courage  in,  221  a. 

Purity  of,  194  b. 

Performed,  imperishable,    197  d. 

Doing  Good  :  41c,  121  c-e,  243  a. 

198  a. 

See  also  Beneficence. 

Performed,  weakness  in,  202  a-d. 

Doubt  :  195-196. 

Cold-hearted  Christians,  ig6  c. 

203  b. 
Personal,  igS  b,  e,  g,  200  d. 

Cure  for,  195  d,  e,  196  a,  599  b. 

Rejection  or  neglect  of,  155  d,  201 

d-g. 
Submission  to,  202  c,  d. 
Trials  fit  us  for,  5S5  d. 
Trust  God  in  it,    197  c-e,   igS  b, 

200  d,  201  g,  202-203. 

Eas}'  entrance  of,  195  b,  c. 
Folly  of,  605  e-g,  608  a. 
Produces  wretchedness,  23  a. 
Duty:    197-205.      See  also  Obliga- 
tion,   Obedience,   and     Christian 

Service. 

Earnestness  :    205-206.     See   also 

And  crosses,  204  d. 

Action,  Zeal,  and  Enthusiasm. 

And  events,   197  c,  200  f,  204  c, 

Conquers  the  world,  205  b,  d. 

205  a. 

Exhortation  to,  130  e. 

And  fear,  201   a,  b,  203  b. 

Gives  happiness,  iio  a,  205  e. 

And  interest,  534  f. 

In  prayer,  462  c,  463  b,  c. 

And  knowledge,  198  f,  203  a. 

Nature  of,  205  f. 

And  pleasure,  162  g,  200  e. 

Necessarj%  205  c,   205  g,   206  a. 

And  rights.  523  f,   524  b. 

Prayer  for,  206  b. 

Christian's  object,  the,  197  a. 

Earth  :    206-207. 

Consecrates  life,  198  h. 

Should  not  be  our  chief  end,  104 

Ennoble  it,  198  d. 

e,  206  e,  207  a-d. 

First,  the,  197  b,  e. 

Transitory,  206-237,  55g  f,  620  c, 

How  to  do  it,    197  b,  ig8   g,  199 

f,  621  d. 

b,  c,  201  h,  202  a-204  b. 

Egotism    sometimes    fostered     by 

Life,  apprenticeship  to,  385  b. 

alms-giving,  48  a. 

Little  things,  198  d,  e,  203  b,  e,  f, 

Enemies :  207-20S. 

389  b. 

Have  no  power  to  harm  you, 208  a. 

Love  for,  197   e,  199  c,  200  d,  g, 

Pray  for  them,  207  e. 

201  b,  h,  203  c,  378  c-e. 

Energy.     See  Action,  Earnestness, 

Nearest,  the,  198  b,  203  b,  e,  f,  204 

Enthusiasm,  and  Zeal. 

a,  b,  369  d. 

Enthusiasm  :    208-209.      See  also 

Necessity,  200  c. 

Action.  Earnestness,  and  Zeal. 

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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Enthusiasm  (Continued). 

Be  not  afraid  of  it,  209  a. 

Christ  our  example,  208  e. 

Christian  virtue,  a,  116  e. 

Element  of  success,  208  b-d. 

In  the  )'Oung,  20S  6,209  t>. 
Envy  :  209. 

Degradation  of,  209  c. 

Of  the  great,  209  d,  e. 
Eternal  Life  :  209-212.    See  also 
Heaven. 

Conditions  of,  210  e-211  d,  598  d. 

Glory  of,  211  e,  212  d. 

Nature  of,  109  f,  209  f-210  g. 
Eternity  :  212-213. 

And  time,  583  c. 

Condition  in,  2  a,   213  c. 

Incomprehensible  to  man,  212  e. 

Instinctive  longing  for,  602  a. 

Lends  dignity  to  life,  381  e,   382 
a,  b. 

Memory  in,  213  a,  b,  d.     See  also 
Aleinory. 

Never  grows  old,  213  a,  b. 

Of  actions,  286  f,  2S7  a. 

Thought  of,  212  b,  c,   584  b. 

Will  unravel  earthly  myster)"-,  212 
d. 
Evangelism.     See  Missions. 
Evil  :  213-214.     See  also  Sin. 

Cure  for,  213  g,  214  a. 

National, 427  a-c. 

Nature  of,  213  e,  f. 

Source  of,  213  h. 
Evil  Speaking  :  214-215. 

Antidote  for,  215  b,  d,  e. 

Avoid  it,  214  b-e,  215  a,  f. 

Injures  the  slanderer,  214  d,  e, 
215  c. 
Evolution  :   216. 

God's  method  of,  216  a-c. 


Evolution  (Continued). 

Tends  towards  God,  216  d. 
Exaggeration,  avoid  it,  483  a. 
Example:   217. 

Bad,  a,  217  d-f. 

Good,  a,  ri6  c,  217  b,  c. 

Teacher,  the  best,   217  a,  b. 
Experience,  Christian:  112  e,  113 
c.      See  also  Christians. 

Faith  :   218-223. 
And  prayer,  221  d. 
Develops  noble  character,  220  e, 

222  a,  b. 
Fearlessness  of,  221  g. 
Grasps  the  promises,  222  d. 
Habit,  a,  219  a. 
In  exercise,  218  c-f,  2ig  c,  220  a- 

e,  221  a,  c,  e,  g,  222  a,  b,  d. 
In  the  right,  221  a. 
Measure  of,  221  b,  c. 
Nature  of,  218  a,  b,  f,  219  f,  220 

a-c,  221  f,  488  a. 
Necessary  in  pra3'er,  460  e,  f,  461 

a-g,  462  d,  g. 
Need  of,  222  e,  223  a. 
Office  of,  219  f,  220  a-c. 
Faith  in  Christ  :    223-23S.      See 

also  Trust  in  Christ. 
And  love,   228  c,  229  a,  230  d,  e, 

233  a,  234  b,  f,  237  f. 

And   obedience,   227  c,  d,  229  d, 

234  a,d. 

And  sight.  251  a,  593  a. 
Appropriating  principle,  an,  224 

b,  234  b. 
Better  than  feeling,  244  d,  e,  245 

a,  b. 
Confidence,  225  b-e,  223  b. 
Evidence  of,  527  d,  618  c,  e,  619 

a,  b. 
Gift  of  God,  223  c,  d. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


661 


Faith  in  Christ  (Continued). 

Family  united  in  Heaven,    39  d. 

In  death,  238  a,  b,  60S  c. 

See  also  Home  and  Heaven. 

In  exercise,  104  f,  225  d,  226  b-d, 

Fault  Finding.     See  Miinnuring. 

227  c,  d,  228  b,  e,  f,  229  a,  230 

Fear  :   243-244.     See  also  Despair. 

b,  c,  g,  231  a-e,  232  b-d,  233  a, 

Base  of,  243  d. 

c,  d,  234  c,  d,  235  e,  237  d. 

Cure  for,  598  e,  599  a,  600  e. 

In,  on  and  into,  225  c,  226  e,  227  a. 

Demoralizes  the  soul,  243  e. 

Instrument  in  justification,  223  b, 

Duty  dispels  it,  201  a,  203  b. 

224  b,  226  b,  234  b,  d,  236  c,  d. 

Of  death,  179  a,  181  a,  183  e,  184 

Nature  of,  154  a,  223  a-226  a,  226 

c,  e,  185  a. 

c-228  a,  22S  b-229b,  229  e,  230 

Of  the  cross,  170,  e,  171  a. 

a,  c,  d,  231    a,  b,    232  a-233  e, 

Preface  to  love,  244  c. 

237  a,  396  b,  535  c. 

To  do  wrong,  201  b. 

Personal,    SS  a,   b,   104  f,  223  c, 

Two  kinds  of,  243  f,  244  a,  b. 

226  b,  227  e,  232  c,  d. 

Feeling  :  244-245. 

Power  of,  229  0,  230  a,  235  b-d, 

And  duty,  502  d. 

236  b,  237  b,  c,  238  a,  498  b. 

And  knowing,  366  f. 

Prayer  for,  231  c,  d,  e,  233  e. 

Does  not  save  the  soul,  244  d,  e. 

Trust,  224  c,  225  a,  226  a,  227  c, 

245  a,  b,  448  g,  506  c,  d.  f. 

229  d,  e,  230  b,  231  c,  232  a,  d^ 

Not  a  test  of  Christian  character, 

233  a,  591  a. 

126  d,  245  c. 

Faith  in  God  :  238-241. 

Fellowship     with    Christ    and 

Condition  of  His  protection,  239 

God:  245-247. 

b,  f,  240  a-e,  241  b,  d. 

Effect  of,  247  a,  609  d,  e. 

Exhortation  to,  239  a. 

Habit,  a,  245  d. 

Expression  of,  239  e. 

How  learned,  246  a-c,  543  c. 

Indispensable,  221  d,  241  a. 

In  trial   and  weakness,  246  d-f, 

In  exercise,  239  d,  240  c,  d,  241  c, 

247  b. 

e,  f. 

Of  the  heart,  245  e. 

Nature  of,  238  c-e,  239  a,  b. 

Prayer  for,  247  c. 

Personal,  239  c,  241  c. 

Fidelity  :  247-249. 

Religion,  493  d. 

Admonition  to,  247  d,  e,  24S  c. 

Falsehood  :  241-242, 

Hesitancy  in,  248  e. 

Cowardly,  242,  a,  b. 

Necessity  for,  247  f,  248  a-c. 

Ephemeral,  241  g. 

Prayer  for,  398  e. 

In  trifles,  242  c. 

Reward  of,  249  a. 

In  youth, 242  d. 

Source  of,  248  d. 

Fame  :  242-243. 

Following  Jesus  :  249-251. 

An  idle  boast,  243  c. 

Duty  of,  41  b,  249  b,  c,  f,  250  b,f, 

When  permanent,  242  e,  f,  243  a, 

251  a-c,  553  e. 

b. 

Effect  of,  249  e,  250  d,  e. 

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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Following  Jesus  (Continued). 

Prayer  for  grace,  80  c,  251  d,  334 
c. 

Privilege  of,  249  c-d,  250   d,   e, 
543  d. 

Sign  of  sanctification,  249  f,  250  a. 

Two  ways  of,  249  e,  250  d,  e. 
Forgiveness  :    251-252. 

Christian   grace,   a,   251   e,  252  c, 
d,  e. 

Christ's  example,  252  c. 

Effect  personal,  252  b. 

How  to  cultivate  it,  252  a. 

Nobility  of,  251  c,  252  d. 
Fortitude  :  253. 

Christian,  118  e,  253  a,  d. 

Exhortation  to,  253  d-f. 

In  trial,  253  b-f. 
Fretting  :  254. 

Destroys  peace,  254  a. 

Source  of,  588  b. 

Without  excuse,  254  b. 
Friendship  :  254-255. 

Christian,  254C-e. 

Influence  on  character,  254  e,  255 
b. 

Nature  of,  255  a. 
Frivolity  :  255. 

Of  soulless  professors,  255  d. 

Weakens  character,  255  c. 

Gentleness:  255-256. 

And  strength,  255  e. 

In  rebuke,  256  a. 

Need  of,  160  d. 
Glory  :  256. 

Nature  of,  256  b,  c. 

Of  earth,  567  c. 

Of  heaven,  299  e,  f,  300  b. 

Source  of,  256  d. 
God  :  256-285. 

Being  of,  256  e,  f,  257  a,  b. 


God  (Continued). 

Compassion  of.     Sqq  God.  Love  of. 

Condescension    of,    271  c-e,   272 
a,  b. 

Creator,   258   d,  259  a,   b,  610  e. 

See  also  Nature- 
Delays  of,  444  f. 
Eternity  of,  259  c,  d. 
Fatherhood  of,  42  b,  260  a-d. 
Faithfulness  of,  260  e,  261. 
Fullness  of,  266  e. 
Glory  and  majesty  of,    256  c,  f, 

258  d,  259  a,  273  f. 
Goodness  of,   261  d-263  a,  553  a. 
Grace  of.     See  GocTs  Mercy. 
Guidance  of,  263  b-266  d,   276  b,. 

594  f,    601  c,  615  f. 
Holiness  of,  256  f . 
Infinite,  266  e-267  d,  269  e,  271  d, 

273  f,  274  a,  d,  276  a,  546  c. 
Justice  of,  267  e-268  d. 
Kingdom  of,  151  f,  268  e-26g  e. 
Love  of,  270  a-272  c,  260  a,  265  c, 

268  b,  c,  488  f,  512  a,  607  e. 
Manifestations  of,  258  a-c. 
Mercy  of,  272  d-273  c. 
Mystery  of.  256  e,  f,  259  c,  267  a- 

d,  269  e,  279  f,  280  b,  f,  282  a. 
Omnipotence  of,  273  d-274  c. 
Omnipresence  of,  274  d,  e. 
Omniscience  of,  275  a-276  d,  597 

b,  e. 
Pardon  from,  440  f,  441  a. 

Patience  of,  443  d. 

Presence  of,  276   6-278  c,  332  f, 

577  b,  602  d. 
Pity  of.     See  GocTs  Love. 
Providence  of,    123   d,    203   c,  e, 

278   d-283  b,  5X2   d,  596  f,  597 

a-e,  601  d. 
Providence,  myster}'  of,  423  a,  b. 
Providence,  special,  279  c,  g. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


663 


God  (Continued). 

Refuge,  257  c,  e,  259  d. 

Soul's  rest,  the,  257  c-f. 

Sovereignty  of,  283  C-2S4  e,  616 
b,  620  a,  b. 

Trinit}'  of,  2S5  a-c,  421  f. 

Truth  of,  2S5  d-f,  599  d,  606. d. 

Unchangeable,  256  f. 

Will  of.  436  d. 

Wisdom   of.      See    God's    Omnis- 
cience. 

Works  of.     See  God,  Creator. 

Wrath  of,  271  e. 

Wrong  views  of,  257  a,  b. 
Goodness  :    286-287. 

Cherish  it,  287  c,  d. 

Duty  to  possess  it,  155  f,  287  b. 

Glory  of,  286  c,  d. 

Longing  for  it,  286  b. 

Make  it  agreeable,  49  a. 

Nature  of,  286  a. 

Never  lost,  286  f,  287  a. 

Should  have  an  object,  286  e. 
Gospel.  287-290.    See  also  j^i^/i". 

Blessings  of,  487  e. 

Call  of,  82  a. 

Christ  its  centre,  288  c,  e. 

Effect  of,  288  a,  d,  g,  368  f,  613  f. 

Method  of,  290  a. 

Nature   of,  288   b,  e,    f,  289  a,  b, 
526  e,  580  d,f. 

Object  of,  287  e,  2S8  a,  d,  375  d, 
e,  489  a. 

Preaching  it,  289  c,  d. 

Unites  itself  to  the  beautiful,  22 
c. 

Vengeance  of,  289  e. 
Gratitude  :    290. 

Beaut}'  of,  290  c,  e. 

Duty  of,  290  f. 

Nature  of,  290  b,  d. 

To  Christ,  120  e. 


Grave  :     291-292. 

Lessons  of,  291  e,  292  a,  33S  a. 

Prospect  it  opens,  291  a,b,  d,  292 
b. 

Returning  from,  291  f. 

Yawning  abyss,  a,  291  c,  d. 
Greatness  :     292-293 . 

Accomplishments  of,  293  d. 

Characteristics  of,  57S  e. 

Condition  of,  330  a-c. 

Mark  for  envy,  209  d. 

Method  of,  293  e,  443  b. 

Nature  of,  242  f,  292  c-293  c,  543 
g.  544  a. 
Growth  in  Grace  :  293-295.     See 
also  Spiritual  Progress. 

Christian   characteristic,  a,  293  f- 
294  a. 

.Exhortation  to,  294  b,  c. 

How  to  secure  it,  294  e. 

Nature  of,  294  a,  b,  d,  g. 

Prayer  for,  295  b. 

Sign  of,  294  d,  f ,  295  a. 

Habit  :  295-296. 

Effect  on  character,  295  c-296  d. 

Evil,  resist  it,  296  b,  c,  d. 

Evil,  how  to  escape  from  it,  296 

a,  387  e. 
Happiness  :  296-298. 

Conditions  of,  297  a,  b,  f,  g,  298 

b,  298  d,  498  a. 

Earthly,  298  a,  297  a,  296  f,  270  f. 

Not  our  being's  end,  296  e,f. 

Of  home,  323  d,  e,  325  a,  b. 

What  it  is,  297  c-e,  298  c. 
Hatred  :  298. 

Not  a  Christian  grace,  155a,  298  f, 

Proper  object,  298  e. 
Health  :  299. 

Means  of  enjoyment,  299  a. 

Necessar}'  to  usefulness,  299  c. 


664 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Health  (Continued). 

Thank  God  for  it,  299  b. 
Heart.     See  also  Soul. 
How  to  guard  it,  108  c. 
Let  ii  be  God's  alone,  43  b. 
Heaven  :  299-309. 
Begins  here,  304  c-e. 
Closed  against  selfishness,  535  f, 

561  e. 
Desirability  of,  308  d. 
Development  in,  307  a-3oS  e. 
Foretaste  of,  278  c. 
Friends  in,  304  f-306  e,  310  d. 
Glimpses  of,  381  f,  382  a. 
Glory  of,  211   a,  212  a,  299  e,  f, 

300  b. 
Home,  302  e,  f,  303  b,  308  e,   f, 

326  a-327  c. 
How  gained,  564  b. 
Joy  of,  303  a-304  b,  367  b,  309  c, 

306  d. 
Longing  for,  300  a;  302  a-e,  308  c, 

309  a,  406  f,  613  c. 
Memories  of,  407  c. 
Nearness  of,  308  e,  309  b,  613  d. 
Prayer  for,  309  c. 

Proof  personal  of,  339  c. 

Purity  of,  302  a,  b. 

Rest  of,  299  d,  300  c,  d,  f,  'j02  c,  d, 

304  a,  b,  g,  306  e,  309  c,  517  d, 

e,  518  a-c,  613  b. 
Without  sorrow  or  suffering,  300 

c-f,  306  d,  309  b. 
Heavenly  Influences  :  309-310. 
All  about  us,  309  d-3iob,  318  a. 
Calling  us   upward,   28  a,  52  c, 

310  a-d,  339  d.  564  d. 
Hell  :  311-312. 

Absence  of  Holy  Spirit,  311  a. 
Congenial,  311  a,  312  a,  b. 
Labor  for,  311  d,  e. 


Hell  (Continued). 

Memories  of,  407,  408  b. 
Natural   consequence  of  sin,  54S 

a,  b,  549  a. 
Revealed  bj'  Christ,  311  c. 
Sorrow   and  suflTering  of,  311  b, 

401  a. 
Without  repentance,  312  a,  546  d. 
Heroism  :   312-314. 

Examples  of,  313  a,  b,  314  a. 
Influence  of,  569  a. 
Needed  to-da)-,  312  d. 
Springs  from  faith,  313  a,  b. 
True  character  of,  312  c,  e,  313  a- 
314  a,  451  a,  b. 
History,  religion  in,  49S  d,  499  a,. 

500  a. 
Holiness:     314-317.        See    also 
Christian  Life,  Piety,  and  Sanc- 
tificatio7i. 
Beauty  of,  315  c. 
Beginning  of,  491  e. 
Christ  looks  for  it,  315  e,  f . 
Effects  of,  315  a,  b,  316  a,  c,  549 

b. 
Exhortation  to,    314  d,  315  g,  316 

a,  d,  f,  317  b,  e. 

How  to  strengthen  it,  314  e. 
Nature  of,    314  a-c,    315   b,  f,  g, 

316  c,  317  e,  496  d. 
Opposed  to  selfishness,  536  a-e. 
Sign  of  discipleship,    315    d,  316 

c,  317  a,  c,  d,  551  g. 
Through  suffering,   108   a,  315  g, 

h,  486  g. 
Trust  in,  541  c,  d. 
Holy  Spirit  :  317-323. 

Conditions    of  its  reception,  319 

b,  e,  321  d,  543  b. 
Fruits  of,  320  a,  321  a,  c. 

In  the  church,  144  d,  145  f,  148  c, 
318  e,  321  e,  322  b-d,  323  a. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS 


665 


Holy  Spirit  (Continued). 

Need  of,  320  a-e,  321  e,  322  a-c. 
Operation  of,  isg  a,  317  f,  318  a, 

32c  c,  f,  490  a,  491  c. 
Power  of,  318  e,  319  a,  c,  d,  583 

d. 
Prayer  for,  322  e,  323  a-c. 
Presence  in  death,  183  a. 
Welcome  it,  321  b. 
Work  of,  80  d,  159  a,  318  b-e,  319 

c-e,  320  c,  322  b-d,  490  a,  491  c. 
Home:  323-327. 
American,  324  a,  b. 
And  Christ,  325  c,  326  d,  327  a. 
And   heaven,   302  e,    f,    308  e,  f, 

303  a,  326  a -327  c. 
Child  of  Christianity,  326  a,  c,  d. 
Christian,  323  f ,  324  c,  327  a. 
Death,  185  d,  e. 
Happy,  a,  323  d,  e,  325  a,  b. 
Laws  of,  437  a. 
Loves  of,  325  a,  c,  327  a-c. 
Pleasures  of,  324  e,  325  a. 
Spirit  of,  324  d. 
Without  love,  324  f. 
Hope  :  327-328. 
Beacon,  a,  328  e,  f. 
Christian,  87  b,  327  6-328  e. 
In  death,  32S  c,  e. 
Pra3fer  for,  28  b.  ■ 
Proves  immortalit}',  327  d. 
Purifying,  327  e.  328  a. 
Saved  bj',  191  d. 
Humanity,  failure  of,  81  c. 
Humanity  of  Christ  :    54  b,  c,  55 

a-c. 
Humility  :  328-335. 
And  wisdom,  616  e. 
Benefits  of,    328  g,  329  b,  330  c, 

e,  331  b,  332  f,  332  c,  d. 
Examples  of,  332  a,  e,  335  a. 


Humility  (Continued). 
Gift  of  God,  331  a. 
Illustrations  of,  333  a,  d,  334  a. 
In  exercise,  329  a,  d-h,   330  a,  g, 

331  a-332  e,  333  b,  c,  334,  b,  c, 

335  a,  b,  506  e. 
Longing  for,  331  e,  334  b,  c,  e. 
Nature  of,  328  g,  329  a-f,  330  a, 

g,  331  a>  332  a. 
Sense  of  God's  mercy,  85  b. 
Source  of  other  virtues,    32S  g, 

329  a,  330  c. 
Suitableness   of,  4S4  f,  h,  4S5,  c, 

d,  f. 
Test  of  greatness,  330  a,  c. 
Hypocrisy  :  335-336. 

Burden  of  villainy,  335  c. 
Leads  to  self-deception,  336  f. 
Religious,  46  d.  335  d-336  e. 

Idolatry  and  the  Bible  :  34  c. 
Ignorance:  336-337. 

Cure  for,  337  a. 

Voluntary,  336  g. 
Immortality  :  337-339- 

Arguments    from   nature,  337  d, 
338  a,  c,  d,  e. 

Belief  in,  337  e. 

Christ  reveals  it,  91  d,  e. 

Contemplation  of,  337  b,  c,  338  b. 

Heavenly  influences,  339  d. 

Hope,  proof  of,  327  d. 

How  to  believe  it,  339  c,  e,  f. 

Personal,  337  c,  339  a,  b. 

Prayer  recognizes  it,  457  f. 

Reconciles  Providence,  337  d. 
Impatience,  avoid  it,  51  d. 
Impenitent  :    339-344.     See   Unbe- 
lief. 

Christ's  call,  343  c,  d. 

Forgetting  God  and  Christ,  341  c, 
344  a. 


660 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Impenitent  (Continued). 

God's  call  to,  342  a,  c. 

God  will  excuse  you,  343  e. 

Heavenly  calls,  342  c. 

in  eternity,  311  c,  475  b,  560  c,  e. 

Labors  for,  129  b-d. 

Lost  state  of,  340  a-341  b,  343  a- 
c,  560,  b,  d,  561  a. 

Method  with,  344  b. 

Need  of,  506  e,  508  a. 

Neutrality  impossible,  341  d. 

Sense  of  unworthiness,  82  b,  83  a. 

Urged  to  come  to  Christ,  340  b, 
341  b,  342  a-343  c,  527  b. 

View  of  God's  mercy,  409  e. 

Warned,  358  a. 

Why  remain  so,  341  e. 
Importunity.     See  Prayer. 
Indifference  :  344. 

Produces  obduracj^  344  d. 

Religious,  alarming,  344  c,  d. 
Indolence  :  344-346. 

And  truth,  604  d. 

Anti-christian,  344  f,  346  c. 

Crime,  a,  367  e. 

Cure  for,  346  d,  e. 

Leads  to  faults  and  vices,  345  a-g. 

Worst   enemy  of  the  church,  344 
e,  346  a,  b. 
Industry:  346-347.   See  also  Labor. 

Commanded  by  the  gospel,  347c. 

Is  genius,  347  a. 

Motive  to,  346  f. 

Nature  of,  347  b. 
Infidelity  :  347-349. 

Advocates  of,  349  e. 

Argument  against,  258  b. 

Atheism  its  logical  end,  348  d. 

Cause  of,  34S  b,  c,  g. 

Checks  aspiration,  347  d. 

Crime  to  teach  it,  a,  36  b,  349  d. 

Cure  for,  137  e,  348  f. 


Infidelity  (^Continued). 

Destroys  law  and  morality,  348  a. 
How  to  meet  it,  349  f-h,  34S  e,  f. 
Not  taught  by  motiiers,  349  a. 
Not  wisdom,  349  c. 
Praj'er  for  deliverance  from,  349 

b. 
Test  of,  1S2  c. 
Influence  :  350-351. 

Unconscious,  extent  of,  350  a,  b, 
351  b-e,  611  a. 
Integrity  :  352. 

Before  genius,  352  d. 
Best  policy,  352  b-f. 
Element  in    Christian    character, 
250  c,  352  a. 
Intellect  :  353.     See  also  Reason 
a7id  Talents. 

And  piet3^  453  a,  b.  565  e. 
Below  character,  353  d. 
Has  no  conscience,  353  a. 
Permanent,  353  c. 
Should  be  my  counsellor,  353  b. 
Intemperance :   353-354. 
Brings  ruin,  353  g,  354  a. 
Mother  of  all  vices,  353  e,  f. 

Joy  :  354-357- 

And    sorrow,  45   a,  356  d,  555  c, 

d,  f,  556  d,  f,   557   a,  558    b,  569 

c,  5S5  f. 
Duty,  a,  357  a. 
Earthly,  prelude  to  heavenly,  355 

c. 
Gives  strength,  354  b,  355  d. 
Give  it  heart-room,  356  b. 
Nature  of,    264  d,    355   a,  356  e, 

603  a. 
Necessary  to  rest,  356  a. 
Of  God,   559  c. 
Of  Heaven.    303   a-304  b.  306  a 

307  b,  309  c. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


667 


Joy  (Continued). 

Knowledge  (Continued). 

True,  found  only  in  Christ,  92  d, 

Laws  of  Nature,  428  e. 

356  b,  c. 

That  leads    to   performance,    365 

Judging  :  357. 

c-f. 

Danger  of,  357  b,  e. 

How  to  cure  it,  357  f- 

Labor  :  367-369.     See  also  Indus- 

How to  do  it,  357  b,  c,  d. 

try. 

Judgment-Day  :   358-361. 
Glor)'  of,  359  c,  360  a. 
No  escape  from,  360  b,  361  b. 

And  pra^rer,    368  d,  469  a-d. 
Blessedness  of,   3  a,  367  e,  368  f, 
368  c. 

Sinners  warned,  358  a. 

Cheerful,    369    a-e.         See    also 

Terrors  of,   358  b-359  b,  360  b- 

C/msdan  So-vicc  as  to  tlw  Lord. 

361  b. 
We  are  approaching  it,  360  c. 
Justice  :  361. 

Basis  of  liberty,  379  d. 
Defined,  361  c. 

Curse,  a,  367  a,  369  e. 
Develops  character,  368  c,  e. 
God's  ordinance,  367  f-368  b. 
Nature  of,  367  a,  b,  369  b,  c. 
Nobility  of,  369  b,  c. 

Must  be  satisfied,  361  d. 

Triumphs  of,   367  b-f,  36S  f,  369 

Justification  :  361-362. 

Completeness  of,  362  d,  489  e. 
Ground  of,  361  e,  f,  591  d. 
Nature  of,  362  a-c. 

b,  615  c. 
Last  Supper  :  370-374. 

Christ's  command,  371  e,  372  a. 

Christ's  love,  371  b,  c. 

Emblem  of  feast  in  heaven,  372  b. 

Kindness  :  362-363. 

Fellowship    with    Christ,    372    d, 

Influence  of,  363,  561  c. 

373  d. 

Let  us  show  it  now,  362  e. 

Fitness  of,  371  b,  c. 

Religious  duty,  363  c,  d. 
Kingdom  of  Heaven  :  286  b.     See 

Mutual  pledge,  a,  372  c,  374  a. 
Our   faith   and    obedience,  370  a. 

also  God's  Kingdom. 

371  a. 

Knowledge  :  364-366. 

Our  love  for  Christ,  371  b-d. 

All    not    desirable,  36^   c,  365  b. 

Our  unworthiness,  370  b,  c. 

366  c,  h,  406  d. 
And  duty,  198  f,  203  a. 

Remembrance  of  Christ,  370-374. 
Vacant  seats,  374  b. 

And  faith,  530  d,  e. 

And  religion,  503  f-504  c,  504  e. 

And  righteousness,  364  c-365  b. 

Law  :     374-375.       See    also  Justice 
and  God's  Justice. 
Cannot  save  us,  448  e. 

And  wisdom,  365  f-366  b,  d,  616 

Moral,  375  g,  h. 

f,  h,  617  a,  b. 
End  of,  364  a,  365  c,  366. 

Nature  of,  374C-375  e,  375  g.  473 
d. 

Exhortation  to  obtain  it,  366  f. 

Violated,  545  g,  546  a,  b,  547  a. 

How  to  obtain  it,  364  a,  b,  581  c. 

Working  of,  374  d,  375  b,  c,  f. 

668 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Learning  of  Christ  :  ••376-377.' 
Measure  of    Christian    character, 

376  a-c. 
Method  of,  376  b-d,  377  a,  517  c. 
Learning    of  God,    443  c,  573  c, 

587  d. 
Liberty  :  377-3S0. 

Conditions  of,  377   d,  g,  378  a-f, 

379  a,  380  a,  549  b,  614  b. 
National,  278  f,  379  b-d. 
National,    child   of    Christianit}', 

34  d,  288  g,  289  c,  37S  f. 
True,  nature  of,  377  C-37S  f. 
Worth  of,  377  b. 
Life  r  380-385. 
Action,  ^n,  606  e. 
And  death,  myster}^  of,  423  f . 
And  religion,  382  d-f. 
Beautiful,  383  c,  d. 
Consecrated  b)-  dut}%  19S  h,  199  a. 
Dangers  of,  380  d. 
End  of,  380  f,  g,  438  c. 
Fleeting,  584  a. 
Greatness   of,    381   c-e,  382  b,   c, 

385  c,  565  c,  620  d-621  b. 
Hol3^  a,  382  d-383  b,  383  e-h. 
Leaving  it,  385  d. 
Littleness  of,  381  a-e. 
Measure  of,  383  g,  563  d. 
Outlook  towards  heaven,    381  f, 

382  a. 
Preparation  for  eternity,  3S0  e,  f, 

381  d, 383  a. 
Related  to   eternity,  3S4  f,  3S5  b, 

c,  566  d. 
Shortness  of,  3S4  a,   b,  e. 
Useful,  a,  4  c,  -381  c   3S3  g-3S4  d, 

5846. 
Wasting  it,  384  c. 
What  it  is,  3  g,  380  b-e,  h,  363  a, 

381  a,  d,  383  g,  385  a,  b,  582  e,  f. 


Likeness  to  Christ  ;  129  f,  543  e, 
563  e,  615  d.  See  also  Follow- 
ing Christ. 

Literature.   385-386. 

Bad,  a,  386  e. 

Power  of,  3S5  f,  386  a. 

Pure,  a,  386  b-e. 

Source  of,  385  e. 

Use  it  judiciously,  386  b,  d.' 
Little  Things  :  386-389. 

Christian  service  in,  386  f,  3S7  b- 
38Sd. 

Controvers}'  in,  162  c. 

Duties,  123  b,  198  e. 

Duties,    ennoble  them,   120  c,  d, 
198  d,  203  e. 

Heroism,  313  c,  d. 

Importance  of,  261  d,3S7  a,  b,  388 
a,  e,  f ,  389  a,  b. 

Make  character,  45  e,  f. 

Make  life,  363  a. 

Seek    God's   guidance   irin  264  c, 
601  f. 

Sins  of,  547  d,  54S  d. 

Success  in,  3S7d,  3S8  b,  c. 
Longing  for  God  :  389-390. 

Condition  of  finding  Him,  389  c- 
390  b. 

Expression  of,  390  e. 

Spiritual  instinct,  a,  390  c,  d. 
Looking  to  Jesus  :   391.  " 

And  not  to  ourselves,  391  a-e. 

Our  need  of,  391  a,  b,  c. 

Spiritual  blindness,  391  e. 
Lord's  Prayer,  419  d. 

Love  :  .392-394. 

And  truth,  603  g,  604  h,  605  a. 
As    Christ    loved,  393    h,  394   c, 

412  d. 
Cultivate  it,  363  c. 
Followed  by  peace,  446  b. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


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Love  (Continued). 

In  exercise,  182  a-d,  392  b-g,  393 

a-h,  394.  442  f,  533  c.  603  g. 
Nature  of,  243  d,  392-393. 
Of  home,  325  a-c,  327  a-c. 
Secret  of,  386  f,  568  b. 
Love  to  Christ  and  God  :  395-401. 
Active    principle  in  faith,  396  b. 
Actuating  principle,  80  e. 
And  faith,  589  f,  g. 
Conditions  of,397  a,  398  c,  f,  400  c, 

401  c. 
Communion  with,  245  e. 
Effects  of,ii6  e,i2i  a,i55  e,  395  h, 

396,  397  b-e,  398  a,  430  d,  542  d. 
Expression   of,  79  b,    Si  b,  85  c, 

398  b,  e,  397  d,  f,  399  a-e,  400 

b,  401  b,  542  e. 
Immortality  of,  557  f . 
Intensifies  service,   130  c-d. 
Location  of,  399  f. 
Makes  heaven,  395  d,  401  a. 
Nature  of,  395. 

Need  of,  396  a,  d,  f,  449  e,  559  b. 
Prayer  for,    395  a,    397  d,  400  d, 

575  a. 
Test  of   true   religion,  398  d,  399 

b,  400  a-e,  542  f. 

Malice  :  401-402.  See  also  Hatred. 

Avoid  it,  48  c,  402  a. 

Cure  for,  402  b. 

Unchristian,    106   a,  115  f,  155  a, 
401  d,  e. 
Man  :  402-403. 

Chief  end  of,  382  f,  402  f. 

Dignit)'  of,  I  b,  402  c-e,  403  a. 

Higher  nature  of,  403  b,  e,  581  a. 

Progress  through  life,  403  c,  d. 

Manhood;  404-405. 
Assertion  of,  404  b. 


Manhood  (Continued). 

Desirability  of,  404  e,  405  a,  411 
g,  414  c. 

Measure  of,  365  c,  404  a. 

Nature  of,  104  a,  168  g,  170  c,  404 
c-g,  488  d. 
Manliness  :  405. 

Bar  to,  548  e. 

Desirable.      See  Fortitude. 

Nature  of,  405  b-d,  606  f . 

Of  Christ,  55  d,  59  b. 

Of  Piety,  452  f,  453  a. 

Want  of,  405  e. 
Meditation  :  406-407. 

Effect  of,  406  b,  c. 

Exercise  of,  406  e,  f,  407  a. 

Nature  of,  406  a. 

Want  of,  406  d. 
Meekness  :  407. 

Example  of,  407  b. 

Nature  of,  105  a,  407  b.    • 
Memory  :  407-408. 

Christians,  of  past  sin,  408  a. 

In  heaven,  407  e. 

In  hell,  407  f,  408  b. 

Vast  stores  of,  407  d. 
Mercy  :  40S-409. 

God's  boundless,  409  c. 

God's,  effect  of,  409  d. 

To  others,  408  c,  409  d. 
Merit  :  409. 

Christ's,  489  c,  d. 

Not  justified  by  our  own,  409  f. 
Millen.nium  :    410-411.      See  also 
Christ's  Second  Corning. 

Approach  of,  410  c. 

God's    preparation    for  it,  410  a, 
418  b. 

Longing  for,  379  f,  410  b. 
Ministers:  411-415. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Ministers  (Continued). 

Murmuring  (Continued). 

Influence  of,  413  e. 

Easy  accomplishment,  an,  420  e. 

Life  of,  411  d-g,  414  d. 

Prayer  in  a  spirit  of,  465  f. 

Methods  of,  411  h,  412  d-413  d, 

Tendency  in  some,  420  f. 

414  b,  415  b,  d. 

Mystery  :  421-425. 

Mission  of,  411  b,  c,  415  b,  c. 

In  every  thing,  421  d,  e. 

Needed,  414  c. 

In  religion,  421  b,  c. 

Needed  characteristics  of,  411  d- 

Of  the  Bible,  422  a,  b. 

412  d,  414  a,  b. 

Of  Christ's  nature,  422  c,  423  e. 

Should    handle    the  Bible  rever- 

Of  creation,  424  d,  425  a. 

entl)%  415  d. 

Of  the  Godhead,  421  f. 

Success  of,  413  b,  c,  414  a,  415  a, 

Of  Infinite  existence,  424  c,  d. 

b. 

Of  life  and  death,  423  f . 

Miracles  :  416.     -^ 

Of  providence,  423  a,b. 

Holy  spirit's  power  in,  137  b. 

Of  redemption,  422  d,  423  d. 

Nature  of,  416  a,  b. 

Of  soul  and  body,  424  a. 

Of  Grace,  416  c-f. 

Of  thought,  424  b. 

Missions  :  417-419. 

Of  union  to  Christ,  423  c 

Effect  of,  417  d,  418  b. 

God's  preparation  for,  417  b. 

National  :  425-427. 

Motives  to  activity  in,   150  b,  417 

c. 

Education,  364  f.  g. 

God's    providence   in   affairs    of, 

Peculiar    to    Christianity,  417  a, 

283  c,    284    a-e,  425  c,  e,    426 

418  a,  419  a. 

Mistakes,    organize  victory    from 

e,  427  a. 

them,  117  c. 

Homes,  324  a,  b. 

Money-Making,   13  a,  622  d-f,  623 

Power,  455  e. 

a. 

Questions,  427  d. 

Morality  :  419. 

Ruin,  427  a-c. 

And  religion,  419  c,  e,  495  e,  496  a. 

Nature  :  427-431. 

Basis  of,  419  b. 

Beauty  of,  427  d,  429  d,  430  a. 

Public, keystone  of,  524  g. 

Finite,  431  b-d. 

Mother's  Prayers,  475  b. 

Gives  no  promise  for  society,  551 

Motive  :  420. 

e. 

And  disposition,  420  b. 

How  to  study  it,  428  a,  429  b,  e. 

Opponent's,  an,  420  c. 

430  b-d. 

Springs  from  the  will,  420  a. 

Interpreted  by   the    Bible,   31   a, 

Murmuring  :  420-421. 

35  b. 

Avoid  it,  444  d. 

Laws  of,  428  b,  c,  429  b,  431  b. 

Cure  for,  420  d. 

Manifestation  of  God,  427  e-431 

Deliverance  from  grumblers,  421 

d. 

a. 

Not  thegrandest  revelation,  431  d. 

INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


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Nearness   to   God  and   Christ  : 

431-434- 
Experience  of,  268  c,  f,  431  e,  432 

c,  433  b-d,  e,  434  a. 
How  to  secure  it,  432  a,  b,  433  a, 

c,  e. 
Joy  of,  431  e,  432  d,  433  b,  434  a. 
Prayer  for,  432  c,  433  b,  f. 
Negligence  :  434. 
Danger  of,  434  c. 
Nature  of,  434  b. 
Neighbor,  love  of,  47  b. 

Obedience  :  434-437. 
And  repentance,  507  c. 
Christian's  desire   for,  435   e,   f, 

436  a. 
Cure  for  doubt,  a,  195  d,  e,  196  a. 
Easy  and  difficult,  5S7  b. 
Nature  of,  434  d-f. 
Necessary  to  the  Christian,  62  a, 

164  b,  434  d,  g,  435  a-d,  436  a, 

b,  d,  497  d. 
Of  Christ,  437  b. 
Of  home,  437  a. 
Of  love,  375  b. 
Test  of  Christian   character,   122 

a,  164  b. 
Unquestioning,  435  c,  d,  436  a. 
Obligation,    ground   of    morality, 

419  b.     See  also  Duty. 
Obstinacy  :  437. 
Effect  of,  437  c . 
Expression  of,  437  d. 
Occupation  :  437-438. 
Change  of,  438  a. 
Choice  of,  437  e. 
Necessary  for  children,  438  b. 
Prayer  for  direction  in,  438  c. 
Old  Age  :  438-439. 
And  youth,  623  d,  e. 


Old  Age  (Continued). 

Approach  of,  51b,  438  d-439  t>- 

Close  of,  439  f,  g. 

Glory  of,  439  d,  e. 

Prayer  for  divine  help  m,  439  c. 
One  thing   needful,   43   f.      See 

also  Regeneration, 
Opinion  :  440. 

Depends  upon  life  and  habit,  440 
b. 

World  governed  by  it,  440  a. 
OpportunitYj  263  c. 
Order,  nature  of,  440  c-e. 
Orthodoxy,  not  saving  faith,  239c. 

Pardon  :  440-441. 

God's  method,  440  f-441  a,  509  f. 

Prayer  for,  441  b. 
Parents  :  441-442. 

Christian,  52  b,  441  d,  e. 

Example  of,  578  g. 

Exhortation  to  duty,  39  c,  50  b,  d. 
441  c. 

Love  for  their  children,  442  a. 
Partaking  OF  Christ  :  153  f.     See 

also  Last  Supper. 
Passions  :  442. 

Calmed  by  prayer,  465  d. 

Evil,  13  d.  442  c,  547  f. 

How  to  use  them,  442  b. 

Prayer  against,  550  d,  552  f. 
Patience  :  442-444. 

Christian  grace,  a,  442   d-h,  444 
b,  d. 

Cultivate  it,  444  a. 

Effect  of,  587  e. 

Exhortation  to,  442   d,    e,  443  c, 
444  d. 

In  others,  443  f. 

Of  God,  443  d. 

Prayer  for,  444  c,  g. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Patience  (Continued). 

Piety  (Continued). 

Soul  of  peace,  443  e. 

Effect  of,  452  d. 

Strength  from,  48  f,  444  e. 

Female,  454b. 

Sublime,  122  e,  443  a,  b,  e. 

Gloom}-,  452  b. 

Patriotism  :  445. 

In  exercise,  452  a,  b. 

Nature  of,  445  a,  c. 

Manly,  need  of,  452  f,  453  a. 

Work  of,  445  b. 

Nature  of,  451  c,  452  a,  c. 

Peace  :  445-448.     See  also  Rest. 

Trial  of,  5S5  c. 

Causes  of,   no  b,  443  e,   545  c. 

Weak  and  spurious,  453  c,  d. 

612  a. 

Pity,  160  f,  454  c. 

Elements  of,  447  a,  e,  f,  544  d. 

Pleasures.     See  Amitseinenis. 

Gift  of  Christ,  445  d. 

Of  home,  324  e,  325  a. 

How   to  secure  it,   122  b,  445  e, 

Poverty:  454-455- 

446  c,  447   b-e,  448  a-c,  532  a. 

Acquiescence  in    God's  will,  in, 

5S9  d,  592  a. 

161  e. 

If  possible,  603  i. 

And  riches,  454  d,  e,  455  d. 

Of  God,  446  d,  447  b,  c,  f. 

Does  not  secure  heaven,  455  a. 

Of  the  world,  446  d. 

Not  a  bar  to  heaven,  455  c. 

Prayer  for,  446  e. 

Trials  of.  455  b. 

Two  kinds  of,  448  d. 

Power  :  455-456. 

Penitence  :    448-449.       See    also 

Exercise  of,  456  b. 

Repentance. 

Lasting,  455  e. 

Nature  of,  448  e-g,  449  a. 

Of  the  church,  455  f. 

Prayer  for,  449  b. 

Of  death,  174  c,  d. 

Perfection  :  449. 

Of  praj'er,  459  d,  e,  465  d,  467  d, 

Nature  and  condition  of,  449  e,  f. 

470  f. 

Our  highest  good,  449  c. 

Praise  :    456.       See  also  Gratitude 

Possible,  449  d. 

and  Thankfulness. 

Persecution  :  450. 

Auxiliary  to  prayer,  456  c. 

Destroys  nothing  good,  149  b,  450 

In  the  church,  456  d. 

a. 

In  trial,  49  c. 

Joy  in,  339  e. 

Nature  of,  435  f,  456  e. 

Method  of  development,  216  a. 

Prayer  :  456-475.     See  also  Devo- 

Perseverance :  450-451. 

tion. 

In  prayer,  461  b,  f. 

Achievements  of,    459  g,  460  a. 

Nature  of,  450  c,  e. 

46S  b,  e. 

Practice  of,  3  g,  450  d,  e,  451  a,  b. 

And  exertion,  469  a-d. 

Piety  •    451-454.      See   also  Holi- 

Answered, 474  a-c. 

ness  and  Christian  Life. 

Assurance  in,  its  ground,  460  d. 

And  intellect,  453  a,  b. 

Assurance    in   source    of,   460  c. 

Cultivate  it,  452  c,  e,  454  a. 

610  a. 

INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


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Prayer  (Continued). 
Characteristics  of,  461  f.  463  b-d, 

464  e,  465  a,  b. 
Christ's  habit  of,  66  d. 
Christ's  method  in,  465  a,  e. 
Cold,  462  a. 
Complaining,  465  f. 
Constant,  464  a-d,  f,  470  a,  571  c. 
Duty  of,  474  d,  e. 
Earnest,  462  c,  463  b,  c . 
Ejaculatory,  470  b,  c. 
Example  of,  460  b,  464  b,   465  c, 

466  e,  467  b,  c,  468  f ,  471  g.  472 

a,  475  a. 
Famil)',  471  c-e. 
Gives  happiness,  459  b,  c. 
In  faith,  239  e,  241  d,  460  e,  f ,  461 

a-d,  g,  462  d-g. 
Lifts  us  heavenward, 469  e. 
Lightens  trouble,  466  d,  f,  468  a, 

469  f,  585  a,  588  c. 

Meeting  our  prayers  in  eternity, 

475  c. 
Mother's,  a,  475  b. 
Nature  of,  456-458,  461   b,   c,  e, 

464  c,  465  a,  b,  467  d,  e. 
Necessary  to  holiness,  459  a,  466 

a-c,  470  e. 
Poor  and  feeble,  462  b,  463  a, 
Power  of,  459  d,  e,  465  d,  467  d, 

470  f. 
Private,  471  a,  b. 
Privilege  of,  459  f. 
Public,  471  f,  472  b-d. 
Unanswered,  459  g. 

Prayer-Meetings  :  475-476. 
Christ's  presence  in,  475  f. 
How  to   make  them  interesting, 

475  e,  476  a. 
Profitable,  475  d. 
Ti^Speaking  in,  575  b. 
43 


Preaching  :   476-484. 

Argument  in,  479  a,  480  d,  e. 

Brevity  in,  484  c. 

Character  of,  476  f-483  b. 

Christ's  method  of  extending  His 
kingdom,  476  b. 

Doctrinal,  480  b,  c, 

Easier  than  practice,  476  e,  477  a. 

Exaggeration  in,  483  a. 

God    should    be     the     principal 
speaker,  477  f,  g,  478  a,  482  d,e. 

How  to  hear  it,  484  b. 

Model,  476  c. 

Need  of  Holy  Spirit,  322  b. 

Object  of,  476  d,  478  a-c. 

Pointed  and  earnest,  4796,  f,  480 
a,  482  f. 

Profound,  482  b,  c. 

Simplicity,  478  c,  d,  481  c-e,  482  a. 

Sincere,  413  c,  476  f,  477  b-d,  479 
b-d. 

Style  of,  481  a-482  c. 

Text  of  the  sermon,  482  d. 

With  notes,  483  b,  484  a. 
Prejudice:     484  d,  587  c. 
Pressing  towards  the  mark, 109  b. 
Pride  :  484-486. 

Conquer  it,  485  a,  f,  g. 

How  increased,  485  d,4S6c. 

In  exercise,  485  b-d,  486  a,  d. 

Nature  of,  484  e,  g,  485  c,  e. 

Ruins  of,  331  b. 

Unbecoming,  484  f,  h,  486  b. 
Procrastination  :  486. 

Effect  of,  486  f,  486  e,  g. 

Madness  of,  616  d. 
Profanity:  486-487. 

One  cause  of  atheism,  487  b. 

Sin  of,  486  h,  487  a. 
Progress  in  Human  Nature,  216  c 
Promises  of  God,  601  a,  b. 


674 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Promptness,  5  e. 

Religion  (Continued). 

Prosperity,    harder  to  bear   than 

Faith  in,  501  c. 

adversity,  8  a. 

False,  a,  288  c,  500  c,  d,  504  g. 

Purity  of  Christians,  545  b,  590b. 

Feeble,  a,   evils  of,  501  g,  502  b- 

Purity  of  Heaven,  302  a,  b, 

e,  503  a. 

In  common  life,  497  f,  503  d. 

Reason  :  487-488. 

In  exercise,  19  e,  495  a-d,  497  d- 

And  religion, 488  a,  c,  494  a,  505  b. 

f,  498-499,  502  a. 

Element  in  manhood,  488  d. 

In  history,  498  d,  499  a,  500  a. 

Faith,  continuation  of,  488  a. 

Inspires  art  and  literature,  385  e, 

Indebtedness  of,  to  Christ,  4876. 

499  c,  500  b. 

Limitations  of,  487  c,d,  f,488  b,  c. 

Mistaken   notions    in   regard  to, 

Receiving  Christ,  152  e. 

497  b,  c,  500  e,  501  a,  503  c. 

Redemption  ;  488-490. 

Mystery  in,    421  b,  c. 

Christ's,  489  b-d. 

Need  of  Holy  Spirit  in,  321  e. 

Close  of  its  offer,  490  c. 

Our  need  of  it,  494  g,  496  d,  49S 

God's  love  in,  488  f. 

a-c,  504  d-f,  558  a. 

How  applied,  490  a. 

Prayer    for     a     higher    personal 

Magnitude  of,  488  f,  4S9  e,  490  b. 

standard  of,  497  a. 

Myster}'  of,  422  d,  423  d. 

"  Respect  for,"  505  c. 

Steps  in,  489  e. 

Safeguard,  a,  498  b,  503  b. 

Regeneration:  490-492. 

Spirit  of,  501  f. 

Absence  of,  492  b,  c. 

Test  of,  398   d,  399  b,  400  a,  c. 

Evidence  of  infinite  powei;.  491  d. 

501  d,  e. 

Nature  of,  490  d-491  a,  d. 

Remorse,  in  Hell,  165  b. 

Operation  of,  491  b,  c,  e,  f,  492  a. 

Repentance  :    505-511,      See  also 

Rejection  of  Christ  :  492-493. 

Penitence. 

Effect  on  the  soul,  493  a. 

Condition  of  pardon,  486  e,  509  f. 

Sin  of,  492  d. 

Does  not  cancel  guilt,  506  c. 

Religion  :  493-505- 

Evidence  of,  50S  c-509  c. 

And  culture,  503  e-504  c,  e. 

Exhortation  to,  510  a. 

And  morality.     See  Morality. 

Expression  of,  508  b,  510  d. 

And  prayer,  466  c. 

Nature  of,  505  d-f,  506  b,  d,  f,  507 

Basis  of  free  government,  425  b, 

b-f,  509  b-c. 

d,  426  a-d. 

Never  too  late  for,  510  b.  c. 

Binds  the  soul  to  God,  49S  c. 

Not   a  substitute    for  obedience, 

Christian,  nature  of,  153  a,  168  b, 

507  c. 

400  e,  497  e,  501  b,  573  d,  f. 

Sinner's  need  of,  506  e,  508  a. 

Defending  it  by  argument,  505  a,b. 

Source  of,  506  a,  507  a. 

Doctrinal  purity  of,  194  b. 

Reputation  :  511. 

Elevates   man,   498  e,  499  a,    b. 

And  character,  45  g,  46  a. 

500  a. 

How  lost,  511  c. 

INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


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Reputation    (Continued). 

Let  not  thy  peace  depend  upon  it, 
448  c. 

Not  saved  by,  511  d. 

Precious,  511  b. 
Resignation:   51 1-5 14.      See  also 
Submission . 

Effect  of,  446  d,  447  a,  513  e,  569 
a. 

E.xpression  of,  28  b,  511  e,  512  b, 
d,  513  a-d,  514  a-c. 

Nature  of,  511  f-512  c. 

Prayer  for,  512  a-c. 

Wisdom  of,  511  g. 
Resolution,  Christian,  126  b. 

Prayer  for  strength  of,  565  b. 
Responsibility,  for  belief,  608  b. 

Of  riches,  522  c. 
Rest  :   514-518.      See  also  Heaven. 

Earthly,  515  a,  517  a. 

In  Christ  and  God,  88  c,  g8  a,  e, 
99  b,  100  b,  152  d,  276  f ,  516  b, 
590  d.  593  b,   595  c,  e. 

Longing  for,  514  d,  517  a. 

Of  heaven,  517  d,  e,  518  a-c. 

Prayer  for,   515  e,  518  a,  614  c,  e. 

True,  nature  of,  515  b-f,  516  a-e, 
517  a-c. 
Resurrection  :  518-520. 

In  Christ's  likeness,  518  e. 

Promise  of,  51S  d. 

State  of,  519  a. 

Thoughts  of,  519  b-520  b. 
Revenge  :  520. 

Best  kind  of,   520  d. 

Unchristian,  520  c. 
Revival  :  521. 

Christ's  work,  521  b. 

Conditions  of ,  145  b,  d. 

Nature  of,  521  a. 

Where  needed,  149  c. 


Riches  :  521-523. 

At  death,  619  e. 

Burden  and  risk  of,  521  d,  e,  522 
a-523  a.  523  d,  e. 

Consecration  of,  521  f,  522  a. 

Do  not  bring  peace  and  satisfac- 
tion, 521  d,  e,  522  a,  523  d. 

Littleness  of,  523  a. 

Love  for,  167  f,  h. 

Penalty  of,  521  d,  e,  522  a-523  b. 

Prayer  in  regard  to,  161  e. 
Rights  :  523-524. 

Christ's,  523  f. 

Ours,  524  a-c. 
Rock  of  Ages,   100  d,  e,  xoi  a-f. 

Sabbath  :  524-526. 

Glory  and  beaut}'  of,  525  a,  c,  e. 

How  to  observe  it,  525  d. 

Observance  of,  brings  a  blessing. 
525  f,  526  a. 

Observance  of,  necessarv  to  pub- 
lic morals,  524  g. 

Observance  of,  test  of  piety,  524 
d-f. 
Sacrament,  benefits  of,   526  b,  c. 
Sadness,  49  d. 
Salvation  :  526-529. 

By   Christ,    319   c,   d.     See  also 
Christ.^    Saviotir. 

Condition  of,  527  d,  528  a-d,  529 
b,  554  e,  589  a-f,  591  b-d,  619  c 

Free,  527  a-c. 

Great,  359  a,  527  e,  52S  e,  529  a, 
547  b,  559  g,  560  a. 

Miracle  of,  416  c. 

Nature  of,  495  d,  529  a-c. 

Neglect  of,  434  c. 

Of  grace,  81  a. 

Personal,  86  b. 

Praj'er  for,  542  c,  548  c. 

Present,  526  d,  e. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Sanctification  :  529-530. 
And  justification,  491  e,  530  a. 
Nature  of,  362  b. 
Strengthened,  how,  530  b. 
Worli  of  God,  529  d-530  b. 
Science  :  530-531. 

And  religion,   530  e-531  a,  531  d. 
Limitations  of,  530  c-d. 
Value  of,  531  b,  c,  e. 
Second  Death,  181  d. 
Security  :  531-532. 
Dangers  of,  532  b-e. 
False,  531  f. 

Genuine,  532  a,  589  e,  593  e,  600 a. 
Seeking  for  Christ,  153  b-d.    See 

also  Coming  to  Christ. 
Self-Control,   test   of    character, 

45  c. 
Self-Denial  :  532-535. 

Necessary  to  Christian  character, 

532  f,  533  f.  534  d,  e,  535  c,  e. 
Not  loss,  533  e,  f,  534  a,  b. 
Results  of,  535  d. 
Strength  for,  535  b. 
Take  it  cheerfully,  534  c. 
Test  of  character,  533  a,  534  e,  f. 
True,  nature  of,  533  b-d,  534  a, 
d,  e,  f,  535  a;c,  d. 
Self-Examination,  should  produce 
charit}',  48  b. 
/    Selfishness  :  535-539- 
■^      And  holiness,  536  a-e. 
Cure  for,  529  e. 
God's  estimate  of,  537  b. 
In  exercise,  536  f,  537  a,  d,  e,  h, 

53S  a-d,  539  a. 
Longing  for  heaven,  302  a. 
Nature  of,  536  f,  537  a,  h. 
Prayer  for  deliverance  from,  537 

c,  538  f. 
Shuts  us  from  heaven,  535  f. 
Victor}'  over,  565  a. 


Self-Righteousness  :  539-542. 
Danger  of,  540  d. 
Deliverance  from,  540  c. 
Embodiment  of,  530  c. 
Folly  of,   540  a,  b,   e,    541  a,    c, 

542  a. 
Separates  us  from  God,  539  b-d, 

540  d,  541. 
Signs  of,  160  f,  539  d,  e. 

Self- Sacrifice,  240  d,   297   a,   b. 
See  also  Self-Denial. 

Test  of  character,  271  f. 
Self-Surrender  :  542-543. 

Duty  of,  542  d-f,  543  a,  c. 

Effects  of,  297  c,  543  a-e. 

Exhortation  to,  542  b,  e,  543  a. 

Prayer  for,  542  c,  543  f. 

Simplicity:  543-545. 

And  greatness.  543  g,  544  a. 
Blessedness  of,  544  b,  e,  545  b-d. 
Effect  of,  298  b. 
Nature  of,  544  d,  545  e. 
Need  of,  156  a,  545  a,  b. 
Pleasing  to  God,  544  c. 

Sin:  545-553.     See  also  Depravity. 
Cure  for,  86  f,  263  e,  548  f,  551 

e,  552  a,  e.      See  also    Christ, 

Saviour. 
Debts  that  Christ  only  can  pay, 

81  d. 
EiTect  of,  X95  e,  448  a,  549  e-550  c, 

551  f- 
God's  estimate  of,  552  d. 
How  to  avoid  it ,  577  f,  578  a,  b. 
In  the  Christian,  551  g,  552  b,  c. 
Just  desert  of,  551  d. 
Little,  547  d,  54S  b,  d,  551  c. 
Method  of,  549  a,  b,  577  e. 
Nature   of,   545    f-546  e,    548  d, 

549  c. 
Of  unbelief,  195  e,  553  a. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


677 


Sin  (Continued). 

Prayer  for  deliverance  from,  550 
d,  552  f,  553  c. 

Punishment  of,  547  f.  548  g. 

Ruin  of,  547  b,  548  g,  550  e. 

Secret,  550  e,  551  a,  b. 

Sense  of,   507  f,  546  f,  547  b,  552 
c.  553  b. 
Sincerity  :    553-554- 

Basis  of  virtue,  553  d. 

Does  not  save  the  soul,  554  e. 

Effect  of,  554  b,  c. 

Examine  it,  554  f. 

Exhortation  to,  54  a,  d,  553  e. 
Slavery,  of  sin,  549  b,  550  a. 
Society,  influence  of,  217  c-e. 
Song  :   554-555- 

Church,  554  g. 

Exhortation  to,  544  h. 

New,  555  a,  b. 
Sorrow  :  555-55S. 

Blessings  of,  555  d,  f,  55  6c-f,  557 
a,  55Sb. 

Cure  for,  124  e,  159  d,  511  f. 

Effect  of,  555  c,  e,  556  a,  c-f,  557 
a,  b,  e,  f. 

God   with  us   in,  245  e,   246  a,   b, 
555  i,  556  b,  557  a. 

Lessons    of,    555  e,    556  a,  c,  d, 
557  e,  558  a,  573  g. 

Not  in  heaven,  300  c-f. 

Tears  in,  557  c,  d. 

Trust  in  the  midst  of,  602  c. 
Soul:   558-561. 

And  bod}',  mystery  of,  424  a. 

Lost,  a,  549  e,  560  b-56i  a. 

Longings  of,  55  a,  b. 
Magnitude  and  majesty  of,  559  f,  g, 
560  a. 

Need  of  Christ,  562  c. 

Perception  of  truth,  605  c,  d. 

Satisfaction  for,  559  a-e. 


Speaking  for  Christ  :  561-562. 

Christian    impulse   to,     561    e-f, 
606  c. 

Dumb  Christians,  562  a. 

Effects  of,  554  b,  561  b-d. 

Prayer  for  usefulness  in,  561  g. 
Speculations,    avoid  them,   407  a, 

606  e. 
Spirituality,  need  of,  562  b-d. 
Spiritual  Perception  :  562-563. 

Destroyed,  563  b. 

Dullness  of,  563  c,  607  g. 

Faculty  for,  562  e,  563  a. 
Spiritual  Progress  :  563-566. 

Method  of,  564  b,  c,  565  c,  e,  566 
a-d. 

Motives  to,  564  d,  566  e. 

Nature    of,  563  d-564  a,  565  c-e, 
566  e. 

Prayer  for,  565  b. 

Sign  of,  565  a,  d. 
Station.     See  Occupation. 
Stoicism,  not  the  true  basis  of  for- 
titude, 253  a. 
Strength,  from  God,  447  f,  594  f- 
595  a- 

Springs  from  joy,  354  b,  355  d. 

Springs  from  suffering,  567  d. 
Submission.    See  also  Resignation. 

Basis  of  peace,  44S  b. 

Prayer  for,  543  f- 

To  duty,  202  c,  d. 

To  God's  will,   565  d,  615  b,  616 
b,  c. 
Success  :  567. 

Condition  of,  208  b. 

Description  of,  567  a. 

In  the  Sundaj'-school,  570  d. 

Ministerial,  415  a. 

Worldly,   nature  of,  567  b. 
Suffering:  567-569- 


678 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Suffering  (Continued). 

And  triumph,  loS  d. 

Condition  of  blessings,   568  a-c. 

Effect  of,  567  d,  e,  568  b-d. 

God  knows  it,   569  b. 

Lesson  of,  569  c,  574  e. 

Prayer  for  aid  in,  577  c. 

Reason  of,  568  e. 

Result  of  sin,  550  b. 

Submission  in,  513  b,  c,  514  b,  568 
f ,  569  a. 

Universality  of,  567  c. 
Sunday-school  :    569-573. 

And  the  church,  569  d. 

Conditions  of  success  in  teaching, 
570  d,  571  c,  572  c,  d,  573  a-c. 

Conversions  in,  572  b. 

Greatness  of  the  work,  571  a. 

Hope  of  the  world,  570  a. 

Methods  in  teaching,  572  e,  f. 

Must  teach  Christ,  57°  b,    571  b, 
572  a. 

Warrant  for,  570  c. 
Superstition  :  573. 

Burden  of,  573  e. 

Nature  of,  573  d,  f. 
Supernatural,  as  reasonable  as  the 

natural,  35  d. 
Sympathy  :  573-575- 

Blessing  of,  574  b,  c. 

Cause  of,  573  g,   574  e. 

Expression  of,  574  c,  d. 

Prayer  for,  574  a.  575  a. 

With  the  young,  624  d. 

Talent:  575-576.   See  a.\so  A  diliiy. 

And  labor,  615  c. 

How  to  increase  it,  575  b. 

How  to  lose  it,  575  d,  576  a,  b. 

Splendid,  not  desirable,  575  c. 
Tears,    557  b-d. 


Temperance  :  576. 

Duty  of,  576  d. 

Effect  of,  576  e. 

Nature  of,  576  c. 
Temptation  :  576-57S. 

All  around  us,  577  a. 

Antidote  to,  100  a,  532  b,  577  b, 

578  d. 

Attacks  the  idle,  345  f. 

Brings  us    into    sympathy    with 
man,  42  a. 

Dallying  with,  577  e,  f,  578  a,   b. 

Prayer  for  aid  in,  577  c. 

Resist  it,  576  f,  577  d,  e. 

Test  of  virtue,   578  c. 
Tenderness  :   578-579. 

Characteristic  of  greatness,  578  e. 

Cultivate  it,  578  g,  579  a. 

Necessary  to  successful  work  for 
Christ,  579  b. 

We  never  regret  it,  578  f. 
Thankfulness,  benefits  of,  290  d, 

579  c,  d. 
Theology  :  579-580. 

And  science,  530  d,  e. 

Comparative,  580  c. 

Devotion    especially  needed    for 
its  student,  579  e. 

Different  systems  of,  580  b. 

Necessary     to    correct    religious 
thought,  580  a. 
Thought  ;  581-582. 

Characteristic  of  manhood,  581  a. 

Effect  of,  581  b,  c,  f,  582  a. 

Evil,  581  f,  582  b. 

Habitual,  moulds  character, 581  b. 

Mystery  of,  424  b. 

Nature  of,  581  d,  e. 

Need  of,  580  a. 

Not  the  end  of  existence,  2  b. 

Wandering,  582  c. 
Thoughtlessness,  624  b. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


679 


Time:  582-5S4. 

Distribution  of,  5S3  b. 

Effect  of,  603  c . 

Littleness  of,  5S4  b. 

Nature  of,  582  g,  5S3  a. 

Passing,  584  a. 

Proper  use  of  it,  582  e,  5S3  b-e. 

"Wasted,  5S2  c,  d. 

Trials  :   584-588. 

Blessedness  of,  109  d,  585  b,  e. 
Christ's  presence  in,  97  d,  5S4  e, 

594  a-d. 
Effect  of,  586  b-e,  5S7  d,  e,  588  a. 
God's  call  to,  584  c,  d,  585  c,  d. 
God's  help  in,  275  c,  5S5  a,  5S8  c, 

599  e. 
Of  character,  44  c. 
Lightened    by   prayer,   466    d,   f, 

468  a,  469  f. 
Pra)'er  for  needed  discipline,  587 

c. 
Preparation  for  duty,  585  d,   5S6 

c.  587  a,  588  d. 
Preparation  for  joy,  585  f,  586  a,e. 
Submission  to,  283  b,  586  d,  587 

e,  588  b. 
Termination  of,  282  a,  588  e,  f. 
Victory  in,  of  faith,  586  c-e,  587  b. 

Trust  in   Christ  :    589-595.     See 

also  Faith  in  Chiist. 
Blessedness   of,   589  d,  590   a-c, 

592  a,  593  a-e. 
Effect  of,  592  a,  593  e,  619  d. 
Entire  and   fearless,  82  d,  f,  97  c, 

202  d,  538  e,  590  a-d,  591  a-d, 

592  b-d,  e,  593  a-c,  594  b-f,  595 

a,  607  c. 
Exemplified,  591  e,  594  a. 
Exhortation  to,  589  a-e,  590  a,  592 

b,  594  e. 
Ground  of,  590  e. 


Trust  in  Christ  (Continued). 
Springs  from  love,  5S9  f,  g. 
Suffering  teaches  it,  594  c 
Trust  in  God  :  595-602.    See  also 

Faith  in  God. 
And  love,  598  e. 
Effect  of,  596  c,  e,  597  c,  598  d, 

599  a,  600  a,  601  e. 
Entire  and  fearless,  203  d,  274  b, 

275  a,  596  d,  f,  597  a,   b,   d,  e, 

598  a-599  e,  601  d,  602  c,  d. 
Exemplified,  595  b. 
Exhortation  to,   595   c,  600  d.   e, 

601  c. 
Ground  of,  602  b. 
In  doctrinal  diffiqulty,  195  a. 
In  exercise,  595  e,  596  a,  b. 
In  little  things,  601  f,  g. 
In  trial  and  suffering,  271  b,  556 

b,  e,  587  a,  b,  596  b-d,  597  c,  d, 

598  b,  599  e,  600  c,  d,  601  a,  b. 
Prayer  for,  595  d,  596  a,  d. 
Source  of,  602  a. 
Trials  strengthen  it,  586  b-e. 
Trying  to,  600  c. 
Turn  it  into  prayer,  600  b. 

Truth  :  602-606. 

Action,  and    not  alone  th.ought, 

606  e. 
Alone  is  not  religion,  495  c. 
And  repose,  604  d. 
Before  beauty,  194  c. 
Conviction  of,  604  g,  606  c. 
Courage  of,  604  e,  606  f. 
Discretion  needed  in  proclaiming 

it,  215  a. 
Doubts,  605  e-g. 
Effects  of,  603  a,  604  c,  h. 
Faith  in,  606  d. 
From  reason,  4S7  d. 
Greatest,  245  e. 


680 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Truth  (Continued). 

Virtue  (Continued). 

How   to  find   it,   195  a,  3S9 

c,  d, 

Conditions  of,  611  c. 

390  a. 

Gives  true  elevation,  611  d. 

Imperishable,  603  c. 

How  strengthened,  612  c. 

Indispensable,  603  i. 

Nature  of,  611  b,  612  b,  d. 

Nature  of,  602  e,  f,  603  b,  d, 

e,  f, 

Results  of,  612  a,  e. 

h,  604  f,  605  a. 

Visions,  of  angels  to  dying  saints, 

Old,  605  g. 

182  d. 

Pray  over  it,  605  b. 

Volition,  582  a-e.     See  also  ]Vul. 

Promulgation  of,  290  a. 

Rock,  a,  92  c. 

Waiting  :  612-613. 

Simple,  605  h,  606  a. 

And  weary,  613  b. 

Soiled,  606  b. 

Object  of,  613  e. 

Source  of,  603  g. 

Prayer  for  patience  in,  613  a. 

Visions  of.  603  f,  604  a,  b. 

Service  in,  612  f. 

When  credible,  605  c,  d. 

Will  soon  end,  613  c,  d. 
War  :   613-614. 

Unbelief:  607-608.     See  also 

Im- 

Antidote  for,  614  a. 

penitaice. 

Destroys  freedom,  614  b. 

At  death,  608  c. 

Fruits  of,  613  f. 

Criminality  of,  607  a-608  b. 

Weakness,  human,  202  a,  d. 

Effect  of,  607  a. 

Weariness  :   614. 

Grieves  Christ,  96  e. 

Prayer  for  rest,  614  c. 

Nature  of,  607  b. 

Rest  from,  590  c,  614  f. 

Self-confidence,  608  b. 

Sense  of,  614  d,  e. 

Union  to  Christ  :  60S-610. 

Will  :  615-616. 

Assurance  of,  610  d. 

Direction  of,  615  d. 

Blessedness  of,  151  d,  6og  c-6io  c. 

Freedom  of,  615  a. 

Effect  of,  608  e. 

Gives  strength  to  motive,   420  a. 

Mystery  of,  423  c. 

God's,  616  b,  c. 

Need  of,  543  a,  608  d,  609  a- 

-d. 

In  exercise,  615  c. 

Prayer  for,  609  e. 

Obdurate,  615  e. 

Strengthened  by  discipline,  585  b. 

Prayer  for  renewal  of,  615  b. 

Universe  :  610-611. 

Surrender  of,  544  b. 

All  things  connected,  611  a. 

Voice  of,  615  f. 

Cannot  give  contentment,  558  d. 

Want  of,  616  a. 

Immensity  of,  610  e,  619  f. 

Wisdom;  616-617. 

Unworthiness  :   152   b.     See 

also 

And  knowledge,  365  f,  366  b,  d. 

Shi,  etc. 

God's,  544  c.     See  also  Gotfs  Om-^ 

Usefulness,  is  joyous,  48  d. 

iiiscience. 
Immediate,  616  d. 

Virtue  :  611-612. 

In  exercise,  617  a-e. 

INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


681 


Wisdom  (Continued). 

Worldliness  (Continued). 

Lasting,  241  g,  6r6  f. 

Evidence  of,  621  e. 

Nature  of,  616  e,  g,  h 

617  a. 

In  the  church,  621  c,  622  a-f. 

Prayer  for,  617  d. 

Nature  of,  620  d,  621  a. 

Woman  :  617-618, 

Prayer  against,  620  e. 

And  Christ,  618  b. 

Rise  above  it,  621  f. 

And  religion,  618  a. 

Worship  :  436  e.     See  also  Church, 

Work  of,  617  e. 

Praise  and  Prayer. 

Work.     See  Labor. 

Worth  :  623. 

Motive  for,  122  c. 

And  money,  623  b. 

Permanent,  119  e. 

Moral,  623  c. 

Reward  of,  125  b. 

Works  :  618-619.     See 

also  Chrisi- 

Youth  :   623-625. 

ian   Service. 

Corrupters  of,  624  c,  625  a. 

And  faith,  618  c,  619  d. 

How  employed,  623  d,  e. 

Christian,  618  e. 

Idleness  in,  345  d. 

Fruits  of  faith,  618  c. 

619  a-c. 

Manners  of,  624  a. 

Nature  of,  618  d. 

Preparation  for  service,  623  f. 

Sent  before  us  into  eternity,  619  e. 

Sympathy  for,  624  d. 

World  :  619-620. 

Thoughtless,  a,  624  b. 

History  of,  620  b. 

Virtuous,  a,  612  e. 

Littleness  of,  619  f. 

Ownership  of,  620  a. 

Zeal  :  625.     See  also  Earnestness. 

Worldliness  :  620-623 

And  meekness,  625  c. 

And  humanity,  623  a. 

How  increased,  587  a. 

Avoid  it,  622  b,  c,  622 

g- 

How  kindled,  625  d. 

Effect  of,  502  b,  621  b- 

■d. 

Needed  in  the  church,  625  b. 

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